Dumping my pennys and got €6.66

gurramok

As the title said, I emptied my jar of coppers into the coin machine at the tesco and it came back(after fee) to a sum total of €6.66 with a nicely printed voucher to spend in Tesco. Phucks, I couldn't believe it so shrugged that superstition off and proceeded to spend the voucher.

Grabbed some food straight away and when I reached the checkout, the bloke in front of me *forgot* his clubcard on an shopping spree and the cashier promptly grabbed my keys from the conveyor belt(with tesco card on it) and gave me his 100 points.

Luck or wha? Or just luck of the Irish on Paddys day like feck off devil with your 6.66? :P

DEFTLEFTHAND

I'd never cash in my coppers. Its kind of like a doomsday complex where I feel if I were to lose all financial and material worth I'd still have as box of pennys. Does that make sense?

westendgirlie

Back up a bit.......

Tesco's has a penny counting machine which takes a percentage of the money counted. Then it prints out a voucher that you can only spend in tesco?

A0

Yes, lucky, but you dumped your penis...

Hande hoche!

You should have placed your pennies in a sock. Then used the resulting flail like device to acquire more wealth.

gurramok

westendgirlie wrote: »

Back up a bit.......

Tesco's has a penny counting machine which takes a percentage of the money counted. Then it prints out a voucher that you can only spend in tesco?

Yes sactla Well in Clearwater aka Finglas branch has. I had tried to spend the coppers at their newish super duper self service machines a short while earlier but they ended up rejected half the coppers so decided to use that coin machine.

My name is URL

I invest mine in scrap metal by not cashing it

Ellis Dee

666 - the Mark of the Beast!:eek::eek::eek:

scudzilla

westendgirlie wrote: »

Back up a bit.......

Tesco's has a penny counting machine which takes a percentage of the money counted. Then it prints out a voucher that you can only spend in tesco?

yeah, is that for real???

Auvers

haha beat ya :cool:

got €66 today

as my granny always said "mind the pennies and the pounds look after themselves"

mattjack

Ellis Dee wrote: »

666 - the Mark of the Beast!:eek::eek::eek:

Not in Clearwater ,Finglas.He fits in perfectly there.

TanG411

666 is an incorrect translation. It's really 616.

MungBean

I emptied my 2 euro jar last week and got 700.

stovelid

Omg, like, povo city

grey_so_what

check under your hair.....if the cap fits.............:D

senorwipesalot

Ellis Dee wrote: »

666 - the Mark of the Beast!:eek::eek::eek:

667 -The neighbour of the Beast

Hande hoche!

stovelid wrote: »

Omg, like, povo city

Hardly count it as a city.

alie

westendgirlie wrote: »

Back up a bit.......

Tesco's has a penny counting machine which takes a percentage of the money counted. Then it prints out a voucher that you can only spend in tesco?

you can cash it at customer service too

westendgirlie

scudzilla wrote: »

yeah, is that for real???

I dunno. I would never use one of them machines anyway.

I like to sort my coins on the kitchen table, realise I have no money bags, put coins back in pot and then do it all again 3 years later

gurramok

alie wrote: »

you can cash it at customer service too

On this part, I just didn't fancy the look of the cashier at customer service dishing out 6.66 plus it would mean I'd end up with still more coppers

January

MungBean wrote: »

I emptied my 2 euro jar last week and got 700.

Did you empty it into the counting machine, cos if you did you got raped with the commission charge, 18c for every €2 you put in.

ziggy23

I got 11.70 but can't find the voucher now:(

MungBean

January wrote: »

Did you empty it into the counting machine, cos if you did you got raped with the commission charge, 18c for every €2 you put in.

Nope, emptied it onto the floor and sat there like a King surrounded in stacks of coin.

Was gonna bring it to the bank to get it changed but someone told be they charged too so I bring it to the post office in dribs and drabs to lodge into my account.

i use all mine on bus fare
no more coppers

ToddyDoody

gurramok wrote: »

As the title said, I emptied my jar of coppers into the coin machine at the tesco and it came back(after fee) to a sum total of €6.66 with a nicely printed voucher to spend in Tesco.

Hang on a minute, coin machines in tescos's.. Do all branches have one? I have about twenty quid of mixed coins to cash

LizT

The newer self service machines have a handy little coin spout that you can use. It takes FOREVER to count the coins but at least you don't have to pay commission.

entropi

Yeah...so even the Catholics dont even realise it's 616, but those of us who dont follow a religion know it...pretty sad state of affairs:pac:

alie

gurramok wrote: »

On this part, I just didn't fancy the look of the cashier at customer service dishing out 6.66 plus it would mean I'd end up with still more coppers

You could have given her the 34 cent and gotten 7 euro back:)

kfallon

I'm on to me second bucket of change

syklops

This is why the Euro failed(is failing).

They picked a denomination that was too high, so people end up with tubs of money on the mantelpiece while the European central bank has a small IOU and a big bit of fluff in it.

Here, the smallest coin is the 1Kc which is worth about 4 Eur cent. Not alot of money, but 10 will get me a bottle of beer in a shop or a packet of crisps or something, therefore it has a value, and therefore people keep them.

How many times did you come out of a shop clutching your change and the rain is coming down and that solitary 1 eur cent, about the size of a pea, pops out of your hand and into the gutter and you think to yourself "If I bend down I'll get rain in the crack of my arse, and do I really want someone seeing me trying to fetch one cent from a gutter in the rain?". To which most people decline, and so there is millions of money lying around, not in circulation because the denomination is so small.

I remember moving house and I owed some money to one of the guys, and I had a big whiskey tube(the tube you get with a special or seasonal bottle of whiskey) filled with coins. He found it and rang me up and said: "I took it down the bank and got over 200 euro. Call it quits?".

If every house in Ireland has a tube or tub or container(not counting whats in the back of the couch), with 100 euro in it, we could solve this mess right now.

Akarinn

This is truely AH material -.-

syklops

Akarinn wrote: »

This is truely AH material -.-

What?

darlett

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

666 is an incorrect translation. It's really 616.

Buy his new album '666; Riding with the Devil', Fifty Cent and The Beast together at last!

Nodster

:cool: you guys make no cents!

recently cracked open our stash of yoyo's and racked up nearly €285 :P

Teyla Emmagan

Nodster wrote: »

:cool: you guys make no cents!

recently cracked open our stash of yoyo's and racked up nearly €285 :P

Jeez, December 17, eh? Cashing in for Christmas? You must have been waiting ages for this thread to come up :pac:

That doesn't look anything like 285 unless there are a whole load of twenty pound notes down the bottom.

mike65

Finland has the right idea - nothing less than 5c in circulation.

Johro

westendgirlie wrote: »

Back up a bit.......

Tesco's has a penny counting machine which takes a percentage of the money counted. Then it prints out a voucher that you can only spend in tesco?

Yessireeeeeee.... Every little helps.

_petulia_

Sounds like Tescos are on to a winner with this gimmick.

OP, you know you can collect those money bags from any bank - you bring them home, sort your pennies into them and the bank'll exchange them for notes ... and then you can spend your cash wherever you choose

Johro

Tha's right. Or at your post office. Don't let Tesco get their greedy little paws on your emergency funds. F#ckers.

gurramok

Toddydoody wrote:

Hang on a minute, coin machines in tescos's.. Do all branches have one? I have about twenty quid of mixed coins to cash

Dunno, I was at the giant store in Finglas, Dublin. Didn't see any in the Express ones though.

Nina_G wrote: »

Sounds like Tescos are on to a winner with this gimmick.

OP, you know you can collect those money bags from any bank - you bring them home, sort your pennies into them and the bank'll exchange them for notes ... and then you can spend your cash wherever you choose

Too lazy, can't get to banks and post offices during office hours and not enough time to do that lark!

I'm pretty sure I'm the anti-Christ. In one I was at the shop and spent €6.66, then a few hours later I bought something else got €6.66 in change, before going to this raffle and getting ticket number €6.66.

daheff

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I'm the anti-Christ. In one I was at the shop and spent €6.66, then a few hours later I bought something else got €6.66 in change, before going to this raffle and getting ticket number €6.66.

congratulations...u won eternal damnation!:D

MaxFlower

ziggy23 wrote: »

I got 11.70 but can't find the voucher now:(

So Tesco got the commission on your cash and now that you have lost the voucher they get to keep your cash. Its like the perfect crime.

ceegee

Some credit unions have those machines too, the %age charged is lower than the supermarkets (Think its 3%) Handier than bagging and bringing to the bank as you get rid of everything and dont have any leftovers

Fiona

I find these machines handy, I don't mind paying for a machine to do the counting for me as I don't have the time to count out the money and bring it to the bank. I will happily pay for convenience!

I one of those big roses tins and every night I empty the change from my purse into it, you would be suprised how much money you accumlate by doing that.

Born to Die

senorwipesalot wrote: »

667 -The neighbour of the Beast

The bloke at 665 is pissed he didn't get a mention.

Capt'n Midnight

mike65 wrote: »

Finland has the right idea - nothing less than 5c in circulation.

if you ever go to Finland bring a bag of 1c and 2c coins

they charge .99 for lot's of prices there and don't give back the change

I've been told exact change really irritates some shopkeepers

Capt'n Midnight

gurramok wrote: »

As the title said, I emptied my jar of coppers into the coin machine at the tesco and it came back(after fee) to a sum total of €6.66 with a nicely printed voucher to spend in Tesco. Phucks, I couldn't believe it so shrugged that superstition off and proceeded to spend the voucher.

Or you could have dumped the money in the self service checkout and got another 50 or 60 cent

just shows how those machines are the work of the devil

surprised that charities haven't gotten in on that act

dxhound2005

The amount of waste going on in the country indicates to me that there is no recession. And people hoarding coins and then paying a commission to spend them. Economic madness. There is no need to hoard coins, just spend them as you get them. Other people out there are hoarding old money as well.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2012/02/10/where-has-all-the-old-money-gone/

gurramok

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The amount of waste going on in the country indicates to me that there is no recession. And people hoarding coins and then paying a commission to spend them. Economic madness. There is no need to hoard coins, just spend them as you get them. Other people out there are hoarding old money as well.

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2012/02/10/where-has-all-the-old-money-gone/

Hoarding? There is hardly any way to spend those 1cent and 2cent coins and I ain't carrying a jar full in my pocket!

It takes forever for the machines in Tesco to accept them plus I hold up the queue and a cashier is no better! I don't use the bus either. Only other way is to spend them in vending machines but they don't accept 1c and 2c coins, only 5c upwards which I get rid of frequently.

Nothingbetter2d

gurramok wrote: »

As the title said, I emptied my jar of coppers into the coin machine at the tesco and it came back(after fee) to a sum total of €6.66 with a nicely printed voucher to spend in Tesco. Phucks, I couldn't believe it so shrugged that superstition off and proceeded to spend the voucher.

Grabbed some food straight away and when I reached the checkout, the bloke in front of me *forgot* his clubcard on an shopping spree and the cashier promptly grabbed my keys from the conveyor belt(with tesco card on it) and gave me his 100 points.

Luck or wha? Or just luck of the Irish on Paddys day like feck off devil with your 6.66? :P

you can "spend a penny" 666 times... you evil bastad