{"id":181,"date":"2008-06-07T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-06-07T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T02:26:12","slug":"coinstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/06\/coinstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been accumulating coins, just as we all do. There are still a few scattered throughout my apartment, but I collected many of them in a plastic bag that just sat in a drawer. I planned on converting them into a more useful form of currency later. At home, my bank had one of those coin-counting machines, so I could just deposit there, but I didn’t see one in my bank out here. And I knew of Coinstar<\/a> from seeing them in the stores, but I didn’t ever try that because I knew they must charge something for the service.<\/p>\n

Nelson, the guy who knows all sorts of random things about various services, recently let us know that he’s a big fan of Coinstar, and he doesn’t get charged for it. At first, I accused him of using the infamous “pull the plug” hack to prevent the machine from connecting to the Internet. But Nelson’s a nice guy, even if he does steal bikes, so I was of course wrong to do that. What Nelson does is convert his coins into an Amazon gift certificate, which has no counting fee<\/a>. Coinstar presumably gets a commission from Amazon for these transactions. Since Amazon credit is as good as cash, it sounded like a great idea to me.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I finally carried my bag of change into the store. Here’s what I had:<\/p>\n

Dollars:  17 (probably change from buying stamps)\nQuarters: 154\nDimes:    100\nNickels:  63\nPennies:  133<\/pre>\n
This brought me to a total of $69.98! I’ve already applied it to my account, and it will sit there until it comes as a nice surprise next time I place an order. Thanks, Nelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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