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: