Trolley Token Trick uncovered.

Lando Griffin

So I bought one of these from one of our large German Discounters last Sunday while I was in getting a bottle of vino only to find on my first real shopping experience that the token doesn't fit their own trollies!
What a scam.:mad:
Here a thought, dont be a mug like me and make your own.
All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around the place and drill a little hole in it and attach some string and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free and stick two fingers up to consumerism:).

wolfyboy555

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So I bought one of these from one of our large German Discounters last Sunday while I was in getting a bottle of vino only to find on my first real shopping experience that the token doesn't fit their own trollies!
What a scam.:mad:
Here a thought, dont be a mug like me and make your own.
All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around the place and drill a little hole in it and attach some string and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free and stick two fingers up to consumerism:).

It says it fits anything that takes a 1 euro coin. Their shops take 2 euro coins.

Vito Corleone

You get the money back anyway you know.

Duck's hoop

Lando Griffin wrote: »

All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free

Top Tips.

Valetta

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So I bought one of these from one of our large German Discounters last Sunday while I was in getting a bottle of vino only to find on my first real shopping experience that the token doesn't fit their own trollies!
What a scam.:mad:
Here a thought, dont be a mug like me and make your own.
All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around the place and drill a little hole in it and attach some string and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free and stick two fingers up to consumerism:).

Will a relatively new €2 coin work?

Lando Griffin

wolfyboy555 wrote: »

It says it fits anything that takes a 1 euro coin. Their shops take 2 euro coins.

Exactly, why sell something that's totally useless in your own business?

Push Pop

So now that we know that the plane crashed and roughly where, is this really what we usually talk about??

Stavros Murphy

I jam in a fiver using a spoon handle. It saves me having to carry around heavy €2 coins.

jack of all

Valetta wrote: »

Will a relatively new €2 coin work?

Only if it's German, like this:

http://www.eurocoins.co.uk/images/2002germany2euroobv240.jpg

deandean

I am in business now making those 2 euro coins with a.hole & string for shopping trolleys.
A steal at 9.99 each.

fleet_admiral

20c works in the tesco trolleys but why would you waste a €2 coin op?

The Backwards Man

Sterling two pence piece also works in Aldi trolley. Allegedly.

deise08

The self service checkouts in my Tesco wont take the German €2 coins at all

orangesoda

are 2 euro coins the same size as 1 euro coins?

PizzamanIRL

OP, I would like to personally thank you. It is people like you who put their trollies back without taking their money out from it. Used to make my day back when I was a young lad returning the trolley for my mother and finding a euro still in another trolley.

So, in short, you do realise that it's not costing you to 'rent' a trolley. Why would you pay for one of those token things?

Lenin Skynard

I was just ranting about this the other day. I always end up at the door of Aldi and realise I've no €2 coin, and it's not as if you can get a basket instead. It's like they are teasing us by selling trolley tokens that can't be used in their own shop. It's a conspiracy I tells ya.

Ruu

orangesoda wrote: »

are 2 euro coins the same size as 1 euro coins?

Nah the 2 euro is a few mm wider in diameter but it is thinner than the 1 euro.

Lando Griffin

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

OP, I would like to personally thank you. It is people like you who put their trollies back without taking their money out from it. Used to make my day back when I was a young lad returning the trolley for my mother and finding a euro still in another trolley.

So, in short, you do realise that it's not costing you to 'rent' a trolley. Why would you pay for one of those token things?

Because it saves you from routing around or queuing up to get change for a trolly.

I thought its a great idea until I went token in hand this evening and it wouldn't fit the fecking thing.

keith16

Two household yale(?) type keys shoved in like a kind of scissors does the job nicely.

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RobbingBandit

I have a few 2p coins here, 50 cents each.

The Backwards Man

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I have a few 2p coins here, 50 cents each.

I have a few Aldi trolleys here, fiver each.;)

RobbingBandit

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I have a few Aldi trolleys here, fiver each.;)

You really are the Backwards Man, I'm the RobbingBandit not you.

Wooden Jesus

The end of an ice cream stick will open any trolley

ScumLord

orangesoda wrote: »

are 2 euro coins the same size as 1 euro coins?

All euro coins are exactly the same size to confuse blind people.

Stavros Murphy

Wooden Jesus wrote: »

The end of an ice cream stick will open any trolley

Life-hacker. So will a coin, a coin that you get back. I tend to carry coins. Ice cream sticks, not so much.

dmc17

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Exactly, why sell something that's totally useless in your own business?

They sell toilet cleaner too but you won't see me cleaning the toilets in Aldi with it

Wooden Jesus

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Life-hacker. So will a coin, a coin that you get back. I tend to carry coins. Ice cream sticks, not so much.

I carry coins too but i spend them on ice cream

vicwatson

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I was just ranting about this the other day. I always end up at the door of Aldi and realise I've no €2 coin, and it's not as if you can get a basket instead.

Yes you can, both Lidl and Aldi have baskets now

Steam Roller

vicwatson wrote: »

Yes you can, both Lidl and Aldi have baskets now

Where ?

Lenin Skynard

vicwatson wrote: »

Yes you can, both Lidl and Aldi have baskets now

My local Aldi doesn't, unless this has just been brought in since last Friday.

Photo-Sniper

Vito Corleone wrote: »

You get the money back anyway you know.

Ya but the economy is so bad that said person may need the 2 euro coin for an extra box of "vino"

:rolleyes:

:pac:

antodeco

I just use the rounded end of a key. Works everytime!

pablo128

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So I bought one of these from one of our large German Discounters last Sunday while I was in getting a bottle of vino only to find on my first real shopping experience that the token doesn't fit their own trollies!
What a scam.:mad:
Here a thought, dont be a mug like me and make your own.
All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around the place and drill a little hole in it and attach some string and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free and stick two fingers up to consumerism:).

It's not free. It cost 2 euro, the same one you just destroyed.
Here's how you do it. You find some plastic of a suitable thickness. You then cut out a selection of 1 and 2 euro coin sized circles, and place several of them in your wallet/purse. Place one in your trolley when you're doing the weekly shop. Fill your boot with your purchases, and casually push the trolley away from your car and drive away.:pac:
No more bringing the trolley back to retrieve your coin when its p1ssing raining!

vibe666

I jammed a door key into a dunnes trolley once and it worked perfectly. Tried it several times since and can't repeat it.

20c coins also usually work in the 1€ trolleys and 50c ones work in the 2€ ones in aldi, so just leave a couple in your car, you'll get them back when you drop the trolley back anyway as opposed to the one you drilled a hole in which is now no longer legal tender and a wasted €2.

flutered

half crowns and the new fangled irish fifty cent pieces on a piece of string were nice little earners in english pubs yonks ago, even if one did loose the odd coin the exchange rate more than made up for the loss.

Altoid

the old 2p piece works a treat. Have one on my keyring. A security guard in a local retail park uses the key off a sardine tin to unlock them.

godwin

Save money on expensive house alarms by putting an ancient Egyptian curse on all your property. If you're burgled and the Garda inevitability don't catch the crook, you can rest assured they will die of a plague.

vibe666

Lol, so basically anything EXCEPT a €2 coin with a hole drilled in it is a good idea! :pac:

wmpdd3

I have the clover one in the pic and its a €2 disc.

byte

wmpdd3 wrote: »

I have the clover one in the pic and its a €2 disc.

Funny enough, that's the single one they point out to work on your Aldi trolley.

Still though, I must try the 2p trick, if I can find one. If that worked, it would have more chance of staying in the car and not being spent like a €2 coin, with the notion that it'd be replaced.

maryishere

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

So, in short, you do realise that it's not costing you to 'rent' a trolley. Why would you pay for one of those token things?

Because people who shop in lidl / aldi are generally poorer and with an IQ 6% less than the average shopper in supermarkets which offer a proper choice.

The Th!ng

If part of the boot of your car was detachable and doubled as a trolley there'd be need for tokens.

Scotty P

The vending machines in Cineworld haven't been replaced since the old Virgin cinema was there in the late 90s and apparently with a little dexterity, you can rack up a load of credit on 'em by finding the sweet spot and then just keep dinking away at it.

Not that I would ever endorse doing anything illegal such as that, it's just what I heard.

Besides, it's very suspicious, not to mention highly embarrassing, when management find you in a sugar coma in one of the auditoriums, surrounded by 27 empty Dr.Pepper bottles.

cruais

maryishere wrote: »

Because people who shop in lidl / aldi are generally poorer and with an IQ 6% less than the average shopper in supermarkets which offer a proper choice.

I see you are back with the usual outlandish statements you seem to enjoy making.

tim3000

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

OP, I would like to personally thank you. It is people like you who put their trollies back without taking their money out from it. Used to make my day back when I was a young lad returning the trolley for my mother and finding a euro still in another trolley.

So, in short, you do realise that it's not costing you to 'rent' a trolley. Why would you pay for one of those token things?

Around 2003 I discovered this too. Cue a young tim3000 visiting every shopping centre, multistory carpark and trolley bay in the city of Limerick for the next 4-5 months.

Being the young nerd that I was I kept rigorous count of all the money I found in these trolleys. Until January 2004 when I hit the 1000 euro mark. No word of a lie.

Wulfie

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So I bought
Here a thought, dont be a mug like me and make your own.
All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around the place and drill a little hole in it and attach some string and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free and stick two fingers up to consumerism:).

Is it not illegal to deface legal tender?

Or does drilling a hole in a coin not count?

MadMardegan

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So I bought one of these from one of our large German Discounters last Sunday while I was in getting a bottle of vino only to find on my first real shopping experience that the token doesn't fit their own trollies!
What a scam.:mad:
Here a thought, dont be a mug like me and make your own.
All you need is an old 2 Euro coin that's lying around the place and drill a little hole in it and attach some string and you have your very own stylish trolley token for free and stick two fingers up to consumerism:).

How is it free? It clearly costs €2

Stavros Murphy

maryishere wrote: »

Because people who shop in lidl / aldi are generally poorer and with an IQ 6% less than the average shopper in supermarkets which offer a proper choice.

Well, Every little Helps.

Fratton Fred

When you park in a busy car park, let all the air out of your tyres, making your car lower than everyone else's and therefore easier to find on your return.

Stavros Murphy

Fratton Fred wrote: »

When you park in a busy car park, let all the air out of your tyres, making your car lower than everyone else's and therefore easier to find on your return.

That's far too much effort. I have glued a traffic cone to the roof of my car. This allows me to find it easily in crowded car-parks and also stops people parking in the space i'm parked in - they see the cone and move on elsewhere.

dmc17

maryishere wrote: »

Because people who shop in lidl / aldi are generally poorer and with an IQ 6% less than the average shopper in supermarkets which offer a proper choice.

Interesting. Would you be able to back up this statement?