How many boxes do you order and how often?

Quick$ilver · Feb 9, 2011

I'm new to the CRH game and would like to know how many boxes I need to go through to get similar results as other users. I'm talking about the year to date figures in a lot of your signatures. Thanks.

Diggin-N-Dumps · Feb 9, 2011

JT10 said:
Not to be rude, but if you would spend some time actually reading people's posts from the forums, you would get a good idea of how many boxes per week various people go through. I lurked on this forum several weeks before I even started seriously CRHing, and in those several weeks most of my questions were answered in the general discusion.

ronbo22 · Feb 9, 2011

No need to get snotty JT. If you did the research than help the guy out and answer the question. that's what this CRH family is all about. By the way, I get 4 boxes a week every week. I have a standing order with my bank.

ArkieBassMan · Feb 9, 2011

Quick$ilver said:
I'm new to the CRH game and would like to know how many boxes I need to go through to get similar results as other users. I'm talking about the year to date figures in a lot of your signatures. Thanks.

Unfortunately that is an unanswerable question. Some members average 3+ keepers per box on a bad week. Some average 1 keeper per 3 boxes or even worse on a good week.

Some banks/geographical locations produce and some do not. All you can do is get out there, order some boxes, and see what happens. Good luck!

SFBayArea · Feb 9, 2011

ArkieBassMan said:
Quick$ilver said:

I'm new to the CRH game and would like to know how many boxes I need to go through to get similar results as other users. I'm talking about the year to date figures in a lot of your signatures. Thanks.

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Unfortunately that is an unanswerable question. Some members average 3+ keepers per box on a bad week. Some average 1 keeper per 3 boxes or even worse on a good week.

Some banks/geographical locations produce and some do not. All you can do is get out there, order some boxes, and see what happens. Good luck!

Agreed.. some places are better than others for CRH.. if you are on the north east coast, you get better boxes than out west.

Quick$ilver · Feb 9, 2011

I'm in the greater Philadelphia area. I put in an order for 3 boxes today at my BoA. I am going to go through some nickles and dimes to pass the 2 week wait until they come in.

If you view this topic please comment on how many boxes you are ordering. Thanks for the replies so far.

grampa · Feb 9, 2011

3per week standing order... want to up it.. but dumping is kind of a pain as it is.. i use 1 dump bank.. with 3 branches.. self coin counter in lobby.. i go to a different branch each week to dump as to not wear out my welcome... i dump all $1500 at once

Hi Ho Silver! · Feb 9, 2011

2 boxes a week for me. That's all I want and all I need. It is all luck. 1 or 50 boxes

? The one box can score better than 50. It has been proven time and time again on this Forum.

diggummup · Feb 9, 2011

Hi Ho Silver! said:
2 boxes a week for me. That's all I want and all I need. It is all luck. 1 or 50 boxes? The one box can score better than 50. It has been proven time and time again on this Forum.

Exactly it's all about quality, not quantity. Get what you can afford to "play" with or have the time to search. Dumping has never been as issue with me. Two of my banks have coin machines and their are no problems. Course I don't dump 5-10k a week either so..........................

PS- I prefer not to mention anything to do with totals, i'm not paranoid but i'm not a trusting sort either. Too much information on the WWW is not a good thing.

fistfulladirt · Feb 9, 2011

I don't worry about stating totals ( I never get any, ha!) besides, I don't keep my coin at home, for safety reasons.
In 2009 I hit the dimes about 4 boxes a week. In the middle of 2010 I switched to customer-rolled, as my averages are about the same vs boxes. My averages went up due to several semi-dream customer dime rolls.

mountainman 2 · Feb 9, 2011

Quicksilver, read my 'The Search' posts. That will give you a good idea of how much searching i do and the results of those searches.

MentalUnrest · Feb 9, 2011

Definitely depends on area. I go through major quantity each week and do not get a drop in the bucket compared to others who go through substantially less per week.

Felixaaron · Feb 9, 2011

I do 2 half boxes and 8 or so dime boxes. I just started an order at another bank for an additional 2 half boxes each week. My average for halves is 1 per box and my average for dimes is closer to 2 per box. In both cases skunks do happen, but good boxes make up in short order. For example, I had 7 dime boxes 1 Saturday. 3 were complete skunks while the others combined produced 16 with 2 mercs.

I would do more but the full time jobs make dumping hard and the wife gets nervous with so much money in and out of the checking account everyday.

AgentX · Feb 9, 2011

I average two boxes a week and sometimes jump the order to ten if I have the free time. I live in the South East and the boxes don't seem to produce that well here so I go for volume so I can up my totals.

2Cents · Feb 9, 2011

I have been ordering 2 boxes each of pennies, nickels, and dimes about twice a month. I have not had much luck with halves in my area and stopped ordering them last year (they are too much of a pain to dump for me).

Quick$ilver · Feb 10, 2011

This is all great feedback! Thank you for your advise. I am taking a road trip today to search for some more dump banks. The only bank I know of with a coin counter is TD. It seems that I will need about 4 banks that are not the same as the one I order from. There are at least 40 banks within a 20 mile radius here, wish me luck.

JT10 · Feb 10, 2011

Quick$ilver said:
This is all great feedback! Thank you for your advise. I am taking a road trip today to search for some more dump banks. The only bank I know of with a coin counter is TD. It seems that I will need about 4 banks that are not the same as the one I order from. There are at least 40 banks within a 20 mile radius here, wish me luck.

Quick$ilver, I appologize. I misunderstood the intent of your post. To me it sounded like "Hi, I am new, tell me what to do to get a whole bunch of silver".

I started doing boxes just last month, and have had issues getting a constant supply. I am currently doing between 2-5 boxes of halves a week. I get customer rolls of other demoninations if I cannot get halves.

rileyboy · Feb 10, 2011

I never used to do boxes at all until just a few months ago. I used to rely on Customer wrapped rolls from banks. Unfortunately, that has dried up a bit due to competition. Lately, I've noticed that almost all the CWR's I get are someones "dumps". Except yesterday when I got a good score. (See my post from yesterday with photos.) Those scores are rare now. Anyway, I average about three boxes a week. Makes the "dumps" easier and I can spread them around. Hope this helps you.
rileyboy