This was maybe a month ago. For a while, I've been throwing all the pennies I get from change into one pocket of my backpack. One day I remembered them, and decided to cash them in at a Coinstar machine. Now when Coinstar came out, I think they took something like 6% for counting change. That was a lot. Hell, slot machines in casinos usually have a 95% or even 97% payback. Coinstar had around 94% payback just for counting your change. Then their fee kept going up... and up.... and up.
So I tossed 144 pennies into the machine to cash them in and... WTF? They charged me a 50 cents up front fee, and then 12% I think. $1.44 turned into 76 cents. Fuck Coinstar.
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