tesco ireland self service till - coins?

iMax · 10-12-2011 01:09PM #1

Have about €65 in mixed 1,2 & 5 cent copper. Was thinking of using the tesco self service tills. Does anyone know if they have a hopper or slot for coin entry?

Hande hoche! · 10-12-2011 01:12PM

Seen both in use in different Tesco branches.

Balfie · 10-12-2011 01:12PM

hopper, ya jus dump the coins in.

LETHAL LADY · 10-12-2011 01:15PM

Dont let me be in that queue.:eek:

DConway · 10-12-2011 01:16PM

Yea, you can just drop the lot in, I did it this week too, takes ages for it to count it, but far better than paying a coin counter 10% for the same job!

El_Dangeroso · 10-12-2011 01:18PM

I've been doing that for a while, the coin bucket will only process a hand full of coins at a time so it takes a while, I normally go on a Saturday night when it's quiet.

But beware, the last time I did it we broke the machine! After €35 of coins the machine reverted to 0 and it looked like we had put nothing in! The guy agreed to give us €30 off but said they'd have to ring us back when they counted up the change. B*stards never rang us and denied all knowledge when we went back on Monday. B*stard Tesco owes me a fiver.

bonzodog2 · 10-12-2011 01:41PM

If you just shovel them in, a lot will be rejected, you need to let a few at a time fall into the hopper. And you (obviously) will need to be buying stuff. How do you know its 65 euro ? Incidentally, Post Offices will take bagged coin as well as banks.

cloud493 · 10-12-2011 02:01PM

A few places, including bigger tesco's have them machines that count your change and give it back to you in credit or receipts to be exchanged for cash, but they charge you.. 10% I think it is? Still worth it for the handiness.

parker kent · 10-12-2011 02:05PM

I'd just bag them up and bring them to the bank.

msg11 · 10-12-2011 02:17PM

Wouldn't suggest doing this, them new machines have a major issue counting out 1.55 for a bottle of Lucozade wouldn't be a nice sight seen it attempt 65 .

opinion guy · 10-12-2011 02:28PM

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Incidentally, Post Offices will take bagged coin as well as banks.

Didn't know that. Do they charge ?

mp22 · 10-12-2011 02:31PM

The credit union takes change with no charge.

Hobbes · 10-12-2011 03:47PM

mp22 wrote: »

The credit union takes change with no charge.

Not true. They only take up to a certain limit per transaction and then you need to put it into your account.

xOxSinéadxOx · 10-12-2011 03:52PM

I've done it in Tesco before with maybe a fiver in change, I definitely wouldn't bother with 65euro. Just count it up into money bags and lodge it into your bank account.

mp22 · 10-12-2011 04:07PM

Hobbes wrote: »

Not true. They only take up to a certain limit per transaction and then you need to put it into your account.

Fair enough, here they will take hundreds of euro's in change and give out cash.

Dunny · 10-12-2011 04:14PM

God help whoever gets stuck behind you!

Id floor ya.

William_Hicley · 10-12-2011 04:25PM

This is where all my loose change goes, I find its the handiest way to get rid of it. Maybe dont bring down all €65 at once? In case the machine reverts to €0 like somebody mentioned, and you probably will be holding up the queue as well trying to deposit €65 worth of coppers. Spread it out over a few weeks shopping bring only €15 or so at a time.

10-12-2011 04:26PM

iMax wrote: »

Have about €65 in mixed 1,2 & 5 cent copper. Was thinking of using the tesco self service tills. Does anyone know if they have a hopper or slot for coin entry?

Oh, so you're one of those c*nts that holds up the whole queue?

I hate you.

stovelid · 10-12-2011 04:28PM

Was behind somebody feeling in millions of coppers recently.

Miserable cunt.

PrincessLola · 10-12-2011 04:39PM

PLEASE, PLEASE for the love of God do it when the supermarket is sufficiently empty

for the sanity of your fellow shoppers.

iMax · 10-12-2011 04:43PM

In my defence, The coin is my daughter's, huge piggy bank just been emptied. The actual count is €41.70 in copper with a further €65 in higher Dom coins. Not bad for a six year old.

Gonna bag it & open a cu account for her during the week.

Dudess · 10-12-2011 04:44PM

Just count the fuhking thing (shops/banks have a machine that does it) and get it exchanged in a bank or shop - don't hold up a queue like that, especially this time of year.

iMax · 10-12-2011 04:50PM

Double post

Oh_Noes · 10-12-2011 04:56PM

cloud493 wrote: »

A few places, including bigger tesco's have them machines that count your change and give it back to you in credit or receipts to be exchanged for cash, but they charge you.. 10% I think it is? Still worth it for the handiness.

Absolutely not worth it. Paying 10% just because your money happens to be in small denominations seems ridiculous to me. It's still the same amount of money.

iMax · 10-12-2011 07:51PM

Brought up a fiver worth of change & glad I didn't bring more. Took forever to count it through. Kept spitting out random amounts of coin which would then be re inserted.

The rest is being bagged Monday to open her account.

Fagor · 16-01-2012 06:51PM

Anyone know if there's any coin counters around Dun Laoghaire? Used to be one in the Tesco in the DL shopping centre but that's gone now that Super Valu are there. Don't mind paying the commission as too much trouble to count them, bag them etc.

Celly Smunt · 16-01-2012 06:52PM

Fagor wrote: »

Anyone know if there's any coin counters around Dun Laoghaire? Used to be one in the Tesco in the DL shopping centre but that's gone now that Super Valu are there. Don't mind paying the commission as too much trouble to count them, bag them etc.

I'll do it for 5%

roo_photo · 16-01-2012 09:22PM

Fagor wrote: »

Anyone know if there's any coin counters around Dun Laoghaire? Used to be one in the Tesco in the DL shopping centre but that's gone now that Super Valu are there. Don't mind paying the commission as too much trouble to count them, bag them etc.

There is one in EuroSpar in Dalkey (at the back door near the off licence) If I can recall, it takes about 12% commission!:eek:

Arpa · 16-01-2012 09:41PM

Am I missing something here?

Whenever I have lots of change, I put it in a little magic bag that says BANK on it, take it to the magic building that says BANK on it and the sad looking man behind the glass screen gives me notes for the coins.

There is no charge. €50 worth of coins and I get a €50 note. Nobody counts anything. You fill bags with seperate coins, a bag of 1cs, a bag of 2cs etc. It tells you on the bag how to do it. Clever bag people. Then the sad man at the magic BANK building weighs the bags and he knows exactly how much is in the bag.

Maybe people are just afraid of the magic BANK building these days because a few years ago the magic BANK people became evil.

slinky2000 · 01-03-2013 02:02PM

I just put about 6 euro in 1/2/5c into the self service machine in tesco and bought some bread and milk etc and it took FOREVER to count it. Good though to get rid of a bit of change. I wouldn't even attempt anything bigger.

From now on I'll just grab a haandfull of change and buy stuff bit by bit.

andym1 · 01-03-2013 02:07PM

How much in change per week do Dublin Bus gather ? And how do they get rid on tons of it ? Answer me that.

tesco ireland self service till - coins?

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