Trolley Token Trick uncovered.

antodeco · 24-03-2014 11:45PM

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

pablo128 · 24-03-2014 11:55PM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:03AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:04AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:05AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:08AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:09AM

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

wmpdd3 · 25-03-2014 12:09AM

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

byte · 25-03-2014 12:13AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:30AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:40AM

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

Scotty P · 25-03-2014 12:41AM

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 · 25-03-2014 12:55AM

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 · 25-03-2014 03:18AM

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 · 25-03-2014 04:43AM

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 · 25-03-2014 05:13AM

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 · 25-03-2014 08:25AM

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 · 25-03-2014 08:31AM

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 · 25-03-2014 08:34AM

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 · 25-03-2014 08:59AM

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?

Stavros Murphy · 25-03-2014 09:00AM

dmc17 wrote: »

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

Some fcuking hope. Theres no quoting statistics from LalaLand.com anymore. They were fed up with people ripping off their figures.

Joeseph Balls · 25-03-2014 09:01AM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

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:).

For 2 euro surely...

jimgoose · 25-03-2014 09:03AM

Brilliant idea. Stick it to The Man. You could get a bench drill and start churning 'em out good-oh, flog them for a Euro each and make a mint. Um, literally, or summat. :pac:

Akrasia · 25-03-2014 09:18AM

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:).

I like to burn 20 euro notes to light the fire with. That way I get the fire lit for free, no more expensive firelighters for me. Take that consumerism

efb · 25-03-2014 09:20AM

I use a basket

Fishyfreak · 25-03-2014 09:49AM

You mean there's an easier way!

stoneill · 25-03-2014 09:55AM

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

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.

That's brilliant! - Everyone should do that so they can find their car.

vibe666 · 25-03-2014 10:56AM

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.

sorry Mary, but that is clearly a false statement. your illusion of 'choice' costs you dearly, which imho would indicate your statement is incorrect.

I did a test a few months back and went onto the tesco online website one evening whilst watching telly and got a specific list of all the stuff i knew i would buy in lidl/aldi for the month.

the total was almost €380.

I then took that list and went and bought everything from Lidl and Aldi instead (there was only 2-3 things that I couldn't get between the 2 shops) and i made a point to only get what was on my list so I had a proper comparison and the combined total between the two shops came to just over €230.

it would have taken me 15 minutes longer to drive to my nearest tesco and would definitely have taken me longer to make my way around tesco than both lidl and aldi (inc. the 5 minute drive between the 2 shops), so for the same amount of time and effort (possibly less) I saved €150 on a months shopping.

Lando Griffin · 25-03-2014 11:25AM

vibe666 wrote: »

sorry Mary, but that is clearly a false statement. your illusion of 'choice' costs you dearly, which imho would indicate your statement is incorrect.

I did a test a few months back and went onto the tesco online website one evening whilst watching telly and got a specific list of all the stuff i knew i would buy in lidl/aldi for the month.

the total was almost €380.

I then took that list and went and bought everything from Lidl and Aldi instead (there was only 2-3 things that I couldn't get between the 2 shops) and i made a point to only get what was on my list so I had a proper comparison and the combined total between the two shops came to just over €230.

it would have taken me 15 minutes longer to drive to my nearest tesco and would definitely have taken me longer to make my way around tesco than both lidl and aldi (inc. the 5 minute drive between the 2 shops), so for the same amount of time and effort (possibly less) I saved €150 on a months shopping.

You also get a full range of Air Compression tools in Aldi for amazingly low value and 3 year warranty, ideal for everything from loosing bolts in your engine to spray painting your fender.

miss no stars · 25-03-2014 11:34AM

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?

Except when the trolleys are dodgy and the euro falls out. Happened a couple of times to me in Tesco (I think it was tesco). Then it costs you.

Trolley Token Trick uncovered.

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