Whats Up With The Coinstar Finds?

MentalUnrest · May 21, 2011

What's Up With The Coinstar Finds?

After continuing to read about members posting about coinstar finds, I finally have to ask - Are you going up to these machines and simply digging your finger in the reject tray like I did to the pay phones when I was a kid? I know coinstar has a 8% or higher fee, so surely people are not actually using these to dump?

brendan1414 · May 21, 2011

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Ive never found anything, but when i try to i go up and act like im checking out the screen, and then quickly glance as im walking away. if there is something, then its yours, if not then walk.

ivan salis · May 21, 2011

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i check out the reject slot anytime I go to a place that has a coinstar or public type coin counting machine -- with my local coinstar machines I know that they kick out silver *coins (dimes , quarters) since it reads it as being the "wrong weight" --its set to accept only clad dimes and clad quarters(as being the right type weight. ) silver "weights wrong accord to the way its set . , also tokens and some foreign coins will also reject --some zinc cents and nickles as well at times if the machines being "fussy".

santafeboy · May 21, 2011

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I found $6.35 in clad in one yesterday.I have also found numerous foreign coins as well as 3 silver Roosevelts. Dont forget to look under the machine as well I filled a date in my wheat collection this week finding a Fine grade 1920 S under a coinstar.

MentalUnrest · May 21, 2011

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Never thought of pretending to check out the screen and scoping out reject tray.... I love it!! I will throw the plan into action later today.

captainfwiffo · May 21, 2011

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I used one recently to dump some halves. I got Amazon certificates, so there was no fee (not all Coinstars have this option, so I had to travel a bit). It's not quite as good as cash, but I do all my shopping through Amazon. I'll spend them eventually (and know people who love getting Amazon gift certificates for their Birthday), so it all works out.

db23 · May 21, 2011

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All of the Coinstars near me are in grocery stores and the cart guys seem to own the reject trays... I was talking to one that was returning about $20 worth of soda cans/bottles he found around the parking lot, he said he checks the reject tray every time he walks by.

treeslayer · May 21, 2011

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I got 32.00 out of one the other day. No silver, but still nice. The tube was full of change when the teller did the bag. I asked if I could have it and he said ok. It shows you how much people get shorted.

mlayers · May 21, 2011

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Yea what's up. I have never found anything in the coinstar reject tray........Matt

treeslayer · May 21, 2011

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the coins never make the reject tray, there always stuck in the tube. got a 63 quarter today.

gordon and tanner · May 21, 2011

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I check out the coin star machines, there is no cover on the reject slot so you can glance in as you walk by. Tanner and I are having a contest to see who can find the most change in one year. Last year together we found $95.00 this included a $25 gift card and $25 in beer tickets that we found a festival and sold for $15. We bought a used pool table with our loot. Anyway back to the coin star question, the change we find goes toward this years contest. I did find a silver quarter and dime on one of the machines where you dump your coins in not the reject slot. I guess the customer could not get the coin star to take those pesky coins and they left them on the machine. Now I can not enter a super market without checking the machine. I have yet to find more silver.

Gordon and Tanner

clovis97 · May 21, 2011

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treeslayer said:
the coins never make the reject tray, there always stuck in the tube. got a 63 quarter today.

Can you explain in detail?

I've never found the first coin in a Coinstar machine, except for 26 cents that some dude left on the top of the machine. He was dumping so fast and furiously that I guessed the change was stolen.

RIcoinhunter · May 22, 2011

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MentalUnrest said:
Never thought of pretending to check out the screen and scoping out reject tray.... I love it!! I will throw the plan into action later today.

That's what I do :laughing9:

.Too date I've found 9 silver dimes, 3 war nickels,1 64 washington quater,wheat cents,foreign coins,plenty of clad.

kb4iqm · May 22, 2011

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I always look in the Coinstar reject tray when I go into the grocery stores. So far not a single find. I have seen the shopping cart guys and bored cashiers walk over and check as well. Guess they need a hobby for when they're not busy :laughing7:

I have never seen anyone actually using those machines, but they must get used or they would be removed eventually.

Customx_12 · May 23, 2011

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treeslayer said:
the coins never make the reject tray, there always stuck in the tube. got a 63 quarter today.

What tube and how do you check it?

ivan salis · May 23, 2011

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psst * look inside the dump tray thru the holes into the catch pan below * see if there is any earrings or othe jewelry in the dump tray --often for some reason little jewelry items get mixed in with coins and when it gets dumping into the tray they slip thru the gating onto the catch pan below *** post type diamond earrings , gold and silver post type earring and even a thin gold necklace have been "spotted" in the dump tray "catch pan" by me in the past :icon_thumright:

-- once seen --ask the folks to "fetch" your item for you from the machine :wink:

FreedomUIC · May 23, 2011

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I found two Steel Nickels in MS condition at the same time in the reject tray at my Credit Union.... :headbang:

Took them to my coin shop I frequent to make sure they were real. Yup, and probably some of the best I have seen
was his comment....... :icon_thumright:

SpareTime · May 23, 2011

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ivan salis said:
psst * look inside the dump tray thru the holes into the catch pan below * see if there is any earrings or othe jewelry in the dump tray --often for some reason little jewelry items get mixed in with coins and when it gets dumping into the tray they slip thru the gating onto the catch pan below *** post type diamond earrings , gold and silver post type earring and even a thin gold necklace have been "spotted" in the dump tray "catch pan" by me in the past -- once seen --ask the folks to "fetch" your item for you from the machine

I asked the manager to "fetch" the two silver quartes in the catch pan...she said they don't service the machine.

ivan salis · May 23, 2011

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not steel nickles * us 1942 to 1945 --silver 35% war nickles -- there were steel core zinc coated "cents" in 1943 however .

ivan salis · May 23, 2011

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some places have a key to "clean the feed tube out" in case its magnet located inside the coin feed tube to the coin 'counter /sorter" clogs full of iron based debris & foreign steel based coins * thus blocking the machine from working -- (post 2000 canadian coins for exsample)

some sly manager ttype folks at various places have "caught on" and are the only ones that get to "clean out" :wink:

or is that "clean up on" the machines