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Ireland to import 250 million coins

  • 17-09-2008 5:15pm
    #1
    utick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 562 ✭✭✭


    Apparently there is a cash shortage in ireland so we are importing 100 million one cent coins, 80 million 2 cent coins, and 70 million 5 cent coins from finland. back in the days when i lived in ireland any time i got a 1 or 2 cent coin id just feck it away id imagine the damn things cost more to make then they are worth so whats the point?

    http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhqlidauidmh/
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  • #2
    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    utick wrote: »
    back in the days when i lived in ireland any time i got a 1 or 2 cent coin id just feck it away id imagine the damn things cost more to make then they are worth so whats the point?

    http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhqlidauidmh/
    We still do...thus the reason there's a shortage of them!!!!


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Oh great even more of the brown, useless ****e in my wallet.


  • #4
    arseagon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭arseagon


    The value of the coins is €6,100,000 and according to the link the job was costing €2.5million. I see a way the government can get out of this recession. :)


  • #5
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Finland doesn't use the 1c or 2c coins. Are we getting them cheap? Is someone making a profit on this?
    I'm tired so I may have got it wrong, but the article states €6.1 currency for €2.5m. Hmm.


  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Finland saw all the beggars and dublin and thought they could use a little extra change.


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  • #7
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    We should scrap the 1 and 2 cents and stop this €1.99 rubbish. I honestly can't remember ever handing a 1 cent coin into a shop.


  • #8
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Ahh the irish penny jar problem.


  • #9
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    We should scrap the 1 and 2 cents and stop this €1.99 rubbish. I honestly can't remember ever handing a 1 cent coin into a shop.

    That's a marketing ploy. Paying 9'99 for something means you don't really register that you are in fact paying a 10'00.


  • #10
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    We should scrap the 1 and 2 cents and stop this €1.99 rubbish. I honestly can't remember ever handing a 1 cent coin into a shop.
    charity? Thats why they have the collection tins by the register.


  • #11
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    We have use for these coins, I.E, to pay off the windscreen squidgy squad that operate along the M50 / N7slip ramps :D


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  • #12
    Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Any time I get change I just put it into a jar at home. I only ever really carry notes. So guess im part of the fault of this shortage:cool:


  • #13
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I feel guilty about using my wheelbarrow now.


  • #14
    bennyx_o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,322 ✭✭✭bennyx_o


    We get container of around 6/7million unstamped 1, 2 and 5c coins in through work on a weekly basis, I don't understand how thye can be short unless they're just not stamping them


  • #15
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    That's a marketing ploy. Paying 9'99 for something means you don't really register that you are in fact paying a 10'00.
    what kind of halfwit doesn't realise that? if i see something that's 9.99 i think in my head 'right, that's a tenner'


  • #16
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    That's a marketing ploy. Paying 9'99 for something means you don't really register that you are in fact paying a 10'00.
    There are other reasons for that, ie to remind the attendant to provide a receipt when she has to get the change from the till.


  • #17
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Mirror wrote: »
    what kind of halfwit doesn't realise that? if i see something that's 9.99 i think in my head 'right, that's a tenner'

    But it does work, you might think "right, that's a tenner" but you just don't register the cost in the same way you would if it actually was a tenner.


  • #18
    dcukhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭dcukhunter


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    That's a marketing ploy. Paying 9'99 for something means you don't really register that you are in fact paying a 10'00.


    The reason they used to do it was so the till had to be opened to get change and whoever was working would have less of a chance to pocket the cash.


  • #19
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    But it does work, you might think "right, that's a tenner" but you just don't register the cost in the same way you would if it actually was a tenner.
    no.....no, i definitely do.

    don't get me wrong, i've always known this as a marketing ploy, i've just never met anyone stupid enough to think woo! only 9.99! \o/


  • #20
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    dcukhunter wrote: »
    The reason they used to do it was so the till had to be opened to get change and whoever was working would have less of a chance to pocket the cash.
    heard that over a pint or some such? load of arse tbh


  • #21
    Heisenberg.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭Heisenberg.


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  • #22
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    The Scientist wrote: »
    Really?
    Neither do Australia (I know, different currency...), yet they still have prices that would require 1c/2c change. They round up/down accordingly though.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_coins#Small-denomination_coins


  • #23
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    The Scientist wrote: »
    Really?

    Yes....
    www.finland-doesnt-use-1-or-2-cent-coins.com


  • #24
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Yes....
    www.finland-doesnt-use-1-or-2-cent-coins.com
    Better than a Rick Roll.


    Anyone else remember when a Rick Roll used to be a tubgirl/goatse link instead? Seems rather tame in comparsion...


  • #25
    LEIN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Waste of space imo. Have a 2Lt empty milk jug full of the feckin things!


  • #26
    Fringe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Fringe


    The Bank could not say if this was possibly due to consumers hoarding them in jars in their homes rather than carrying them around in their pockets or purses.

    Damn they're onto me.


  • #27
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    Better than a Rick Roll.

    I'm trying to start a new meme of Gary Busey. Spread the word around...


  • #28
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    where and when is this arriving exactly....


  • #29
    LEIN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    lostexpectation wrote: »
    where and when is this arriving exactly....

    Would you not try intercept some notes. Might be lighter than the copper coins... :D


  • #30
    IRISH RAIL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭IRISH RAIL


    bray arcades here we come


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  • #31
    abitlonely
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭abitlonely


    Mirror wrote: »
    heard that over a pint or some such? load of arse tbh

    no, it forces the teller people to open the till, issue the receipt...


  • #32
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    abitlonely wrote: »
    no, it forces the teller people to open the till, issue the receipt...
    that's correct. but then the stock is off balance if they don't do that. you'd be caught either way if you were doing it too much. but i severely doubt that's why it "started".


  • #33
    RoundTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    damo9090 wrote: »
    Would you not try intercept some notes. Might be lighter than the copper coins... :D

    maybe he's in the scrap business?


  • #34
    LEIN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Jerry Ryan is having a ramble about this subject on 2FM atm.


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