I am busting at the seams with excitement!!!!!!!!!

[clovis97]

Only my fellow CRHer's could appreciate this bit of AWESOME news:

I've been banking with a small bank for many years. The service was outstanding until they got bought by a small regional bank, and then the service and small town, family-style feel went by the wayside.

Service there has gotten so bad that I've been toying with closing my accounts there. The only advantage to keeping this bank is that I can dump small amounts of coinage every so often. They have a coin counter behind the teller counter.

They are never happy when I dump halves on them, and often get sighs and real eye rolling from these tellers. It is not a bad place to dump $200 in dimes, and maybe $100 in halves, but only if I am desperate to dump, and I've tried not to dump more than once a month there.

I hadn't dumped any coin at this branch since late April, and when I walked in today:

They have a brand new coin counter sitting in the lobby!!!!!!

This will be up and running this coming week!!!!!!!!

Dumping is seriously hard to do in this small town, especially if you have more than $200 in halves.

Currently, I have 3 dump banks...this one will make number 4...and it is literally about 3 blocks from my house. I've been carefully rotating each dump bank so I don't burn any of them out.

Even better, this means that the long standing rumor "that all of our branches will have counters in the lobby" is no longer hearsay, but actual truth. This will expand my ability to dump by about 40 branches, even though there are only 7 branches within a 15 mile drive.

Man, am I ever excited!!!!!!!

Thank you for letting me share....

 

[clovis97]

I forgot to add that this will allow my volumes to sky rocket.

I've had the opportunity to buy dime and quarter bags for quite some time, but I haven't been able to due to my dumping problems.

Hello, bags!!!!! Welcome to my life....

 

[dave5710]

I just hope that "busting at the seams" doesn't apply to those bags of dimes and quarters. Good luck with your expansion.

 

[clovis97]

Me neither, Dave. Have you ever knocked over a coffee can holding $500 worth of dimes, inside your car?

I promise that it is no fun at all!

 

[jethro1469]

Me neither, Dave. Have you ever knocked over a coffee can holding $500 worth of dimes, inside your car?

I promise that it is no fun at all!

Even more fun when it falls into the parking lot when you open the door. Man, some of those dimes can really run !

 

[clovis97]

Dumping dimes in a parking lot? Oh my goodness...that must have been awful!

 

[clovis97]

BTW, you all know that you are a serious CRHing dork like me when one of the very first things on your mind when you wake up is:

"I have a new dump bank!"

 

[FormerTeller]

I forgot to add that this will allow my volumes to sky rocket.

UH OH!

Seriously, congratulations!

 

[ArkieBassMan]

Very nice!

Can't have too many dump banks!

 

[Dok Holliday]

Ever try to buy the bags off the coin counter? I'm thinking of doing such a thing at my Credit Union, they have a coin counter in the lobby of their main branch...I don't think any other branches (5 total) have counters...the tellers at the main branch know me from my dime box orders, I'm thinking it may be worth it to ask them. You may want to do the same, and with a new counter machine you may be able to get in at the ground floor! Just remind them that you'll buy the bags at face value, which means they don't have to pay to have the coins taken away. Then just take your dumps to a competing bank and make them pay

 

[Bigheed]

good deal clovis thats great news!

 

[clovis97]

Thank you for the replies!!

I tell you, I am still excited. I'm not sure that I can wait until it is up and running.

I might have to call them every hour, on the hour, each day to see if the machine is in service.

 

[clovis97]

Re: I am busting at the seams with excitement!! *UPDATE*

What a disappointment!!!!!

The bank finally got the new coin counter up and running....and guess what?

It counts every coin except halves and gold dollars.

If I were to guess, I bet that machine will count halves, but they have programmed it not to accept them.

This is a major let down to my CRHing hobby. I had hoped to up my boxes to four per week, but this means I'll have to stick to my normal two.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

Re: I am busting at the seams with excitement!! *UPDATE*

What a disappointment!!!!!

The bank finally got the new coin counter up and running....and guess what?

It counts every coin except halves and gold dollars.

If I were to guess, I bet that machine will count halves, but they have programmed it not to accept them.

This is a major let down to my CRHing hobby. I had hoped to up my boxes to four per week, but this means I'll have to stick to my normal two.

I'd still take advantage of the new coin counters by doing more dimes (or nickels, pennies, quarters - whatever you enjoy). No sense in letting perfectly good coin counters sit idly by.

 

[quiksilver]

I love it when a bank of mine gets a coin counter......unless of course it was a silver producing bank.

 

[dougbfromnorthga]

Having a free coin counting machine would be awesome. I could increase volume very very easily. Fill that thing up with searched coins. later HH Doug