by Tricia
I received an email from Coinstar letting me know that they are offering free coin counting for 7 hours in selected locations in selected cities on July 7th, 2007. There’s a bit of buzz around that date because of the lucky 7-7-7 connection.
The selected cities are Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, St. Louis, Orlando, and Chicago. To find the locations where this promotion is valid, you will need to visit myluckycoinstar.com and figure out a few trivia questions.
If you have some pennies you need counted yet cringe thinking of having a coin counter take a percentage, this could be an ideal time for you to take in your coins after figuring out the locations where it’s free.
Darnit! Too bad I don’t live in one of those selected cities! We have a mason jar in the kitchen that we drop off our loose change when we walk into the house. Once that’s filled it goes into our daughter’s piggy banks. I’m not willing to get a fee charged, so needless to say the piggy banks filled with change just sit around here! I think I’m going to have to resort to good old fashioned rolling!!!
Our credit union has a machine we can use for free. It spits out a reciept you then take to a teller for deposit into your account. You might check your bank or credit union.
Some of the coinstar machines are free if you choose to be paid in the form of a gift certificate.
Most banks will count coins for free, check with your bank. Our bank prefers customers to bring change in loose for them to put through their counter rather than already rolled in order to prevent errors.
In the Washington DC metro area Chevy Chase Banks have coin counting machines that are free to use whether you are a Chevy Chase client or not. Once your coins are counted by the machine and you get the slip with the total on it, you just take it to the teller window to redeem for cash.
I’m out of luck on both ends. Our coin star machines take a hefty fee unless we accept a gift certificate. None of the banks I use have coin counters or will count the coins. In fact if you walk in with a lot of coins, they hand you coin rolls and tell you to come back. And I have relationships with about 6 credit unions and 2 major commercial banks and 1 local bank in my area 🙁