Dumping my pennys and got €6.66

gurramok · 17-03-2012 09:07PM #1

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 · 17-03-2012 09:11PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:17PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:17PM

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

Hande hoche! · 17-03-2012 09:19PM

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

gurramok · 17-03-2012 09:20PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:20PM

I invest mine in scrap metal by not cashing it

Ellis Dee · 17-03-2012 09:20PM

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

scudzilla · 17-03-2012 09:20PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:20PM

haha beat ya :cool:

got €66 today

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

mattjack · 17-03-2012 09:21PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

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

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

TanG411 · 17-03-2012 09:22PM

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

MungBean · 17-03-2012 09:22PM

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

stovelid · 17-03-2012 09:23PM

Omg, like, povo city

grey_so_what · 17-03-2012 09:24PM

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

senorwipesalot · 17-03-2012 09:24PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

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

667 -The neighbour of the Beast

Hande hoche! · 17-03-2012 09:25PM

stovelid wrote: »

Omg, like, povo city

Hardly count it as a city.

alie · 17-03-2012 09:25PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:25PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:35PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:50PM

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 · 17-03-2012 09:53PM

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

MungBean · 17-03-2012 09:56PM

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.

17-03-2012 10:14PM

i use all mine on bus fare
no more coppers

ToddyDoody · 18-03-2012 01:59AM

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 · 18-03-2012 02:03AM

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 · 18-03-2012 02:06AM

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 · 18-03-2012 08:42PM

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 · 18-03-2012 08:54PM

I'm on to me second bucket of change

syklops · 18-03-2012 09:29PM

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 · 18-03-2012 09:33PM

This is truely AH material -.-

Dumping my pennys and got €6.66

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