First dump experience

Pirate Hunter · Feb 21, 2009

Well I went to my local bank that has a coin changer in the lobby for free use. I had about $250 dimes and a little over $500 half's. I dumped my dines first and soon after the half's. Quickly the machine filled up and I had just started dumping. The bank mgr came over and opened the machine and found one of the half's I was dumping and said "you dont want to keep this, people collect them." I told her I put it in there and I had alot more to go. Her eyes got big and she said we limit the use of the machine. She let me dump them all but the coin machine only holds $100 dollar bags of halfs so she had to stay there the entire time I dumped. She wasnt too happy but kept a smile the whole time.

I also made some money, the coin return on the machine that spits out the unwanted coins was stuck so she dumped all of those coins into the hopper for me and they went through. Mo money, mo money.

I think in the future I will need to have 2-3 dumps so I dont piss them off too much. I have alot of the banks around so its not that big of a deal.

47thelement · Feb 21, 2009

I believe you went to TD bank. Penny doesn't handle halves well.

As for dump banks. I have atleast 10. That keeps me off everybodys s-list for a while. It also helps that I live within an hour of two major metro areas and have access to approximately 500 bank branches within 1 hour of my house.

Pirate Hunter · Feb 21, 2009

Yea TD bank it is. It the only bank that I know in queens that has a coin changing machine in the lobby. I might have to look a little deeper.

Detectingfreak · Feb 22, 2009

I only have one dump bank and I try to spread it out my dumps. I only make dumps every 2-3 days, so then they are not mad. As long as you have an Account and are a customer then you should be fine! :thumbsup:

Fropa · Feb 22, 2009

I've only used 1 dump bank for the last 3 years. I want to be able to use all the other banks in the area as buy banks. Since I'm there so much, a little over a year ago they hired me part time as a teller.

Scalper · Feb 23, 2009

Fropa said:
I've only used 1 dump bank for the last 3 years. I want to be able to use all the other banks in the area as buy banks. Since I'm there so much, a little over a year ago they hired me part time as a teller.

Lmao Fropa , well they certainly knew that you were dependable thats for sure :icon_jokercolor:

, Ed

golden silver · Feb 23, 2009

100 dollar bag for the halves? That is crazy. I would not be able to do the hobbie the way I do it with a machine like that. I would be there dusk till dawn.

Golden Silver

markmopar · Feb 23, 2009

golden silver said:
100 dollar bag for the halves? That is crazy. I would not be able to do the hobbie the way I do it with a machine like that. I would be there dusk till dawn.

Golden Silver

Yeah, it sux. There's only one TD in south Jersey that holds more than $100 for halves. The one in Ocean City is set up for $500. It was done before the Commerce/TD merger for a guy that dumped there a lot. The folks at the TD's I use have asked the machine techs to change to $500 but they won't do it.

GMan00001 · Mar 2, 2009

Piercesdad said:
I believe you went to TD bank. Penny doesn't handle halves well.

As for dump banks. I have atleast 10. That keeps me off everybodys s-list for a while. It also helps that I live within an hour of two major metro areas and have access to approximately 500 bank branches within 1 hour of my house.

I have dumped coins on 18 different banks/branches already this year... try not to go back more than once a month or so, keeping track of where I was dumping was actually what started my "tracking lists"...

In 2008, I used 42 different banks as dump banks over the course of the year. In 2007, 48 banks.

Its why although I do a lot of volume, no one sees me enough to really complain.