Fives add up bloody quickly.
We had about £17 in 5's.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 11:54, archived)

I fill a Quality Street tin
It's usually about £40. Plus I like the noise it makes as you pour it into the machine at the supermarket.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 11:56, archived)

What is the "machine at the supermarket" trickery?
Exec mentioned ASDA up there too...
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 11:59, archived)

coinstar machines, change all your shrap for a voucher
charge you 8.5p in every pound
( mongychops, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:00, archived)

Hmm. Never heard of them. handy though.

( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:06, archived)

if you bank with barclays some of the lager branches also have a similar machine which charges you nowt and deposits the money into your account

( mongychops, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:08, archived)

You pour your money in a machine, it takes about 7% from you for the trouble.
Then you get a voucher that you can cash in in the shop.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:00, archived)

We don't have those here.
Would save trailing it all the the bank.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:07, archived)

But the bank is free
Much better idea.
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:22, archived)

So basically it's a machine which charges you for having money.
What sort of idiot no-brained spasticated cunt would use a machine like that? 7%? Fuck me, that's worse than some bank loans.

Here's an idea, just give the shrapnel to the woman at the till. She's not allowed to refuse it.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:07, archived)

Of course she can refuse it
You can refuse anything over twenty coins of any denomination. Shut up.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:08, archived)

Not quite as clear cut as that on the legal tender rules
but if you're going to allow machines like that to exist, it's a massive disregard to money, capitalism and the whole idea of what you make money for. I might as well introduce a 7% poverty tax on anyone who wants to pay me in coins, if I were a trader.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:12, archived)

Hippy

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:13, archived)

Bollocks
the machine charges a fee for providing a convenient service...more or less a perfect example of capitalism.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:18, archived)

It charges a fee for converting perfectly good cash into store credit
Any cunt who willingly pays for a service like that is a premium-grade 700bn dollar bail-out hydrocephalic moron.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:21, archived)

It's not store credit
They give you cash.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:22, archived)

If it were my shop I'd give it back to you in change
just to teach you not to be a cunt with your money.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:24, archived)

You're tiresome

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:22, archived)

and you're an idiot

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:25, archived)

Quite

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:27, archived)

www.royalmint.com/corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:19, archived)

Ah, that's where I got the 20 thing from, the penny thing.

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:21, archived)

The bank usually accepts it all.
As long as it's in bags in the correct denomination and amounts on the bag.

£10 in 20p's
£5 in 10p's
£5 in 5p's
£1 in 2's
£1 in 1's
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:23, archived)

Not around here they don't
They don't like cash at all. It's very odd.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:24, archived)

I meant to add "as long as you are paying it into an account".

( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:25, archived)

I recall the missus trying to pay a few bags of cash into Lloyds
There was a limit. Mind you, she is suing them for something.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:28, archived)

Post Offices
are usually up for it.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:29, archived)

Yeah. Dirty fuckers that they are.
I'll stamp their Giro...
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:30, archived)

I'd like to pay my TV licence
all over their counter.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:33, archived)

it's nothing to do with poverty.
If you're in poverty, you don't accumulate £50-worth of change, you spend it bit by bit because you don't have the option of just handing over a note.

The 7% is a tax on not having to be arsed bagging up all your change in the correct amount/denominations to hand it over at the bank no more than five bags at a time, not having to feel embarrassed holding up a queue while you count out shrapnel at the shops, and the convenience of being able to take the big bag of change to the supermarket (where you would go anyway) in order to change it into a store voucher (for a store where you would be shopping anyway).
( Batsgirl, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:32, archived)

last time i used one it was 98 pounds of loose change
for ease of exchange for notes it is a blessing, my bank will only take 5 bags of change a day
( mongychops, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:09, archived)

They'll only take 5 bags without prior notice
But you were willing to lose over six quid of all that cash, just for the sake of making a phone call to your local branch?
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:13, archived)

6 quid? fuck it, doesn't even get me a packet of fags these days

( mongychops, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:14, archived)

She is

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Sat 9 May 2009, 12:11, archived)