LMAO - Bank Teller wants to pay me 10 cents for a silver one

[General of Darkness]

Just got back from the bank to get rid of some coins and noticed I had a silver dime. So I give the teller the machine receipt then have this discussion.

Me - can you pay me for this silver dime
Teller - OK
Me - what did you give me for the dime
Teller - 10 cents
Me - give me that back.
Me - You know that with it being silver it's worth about 2 bucks?
Teller - Blank Stare

I know it's only worth $1.70 or something like that but it's the point of not giving the banks ANYTHING anymore.

Anyway, I thought you folks would enjoy that.

[gunDriller]

Just got back from the bank to get rid of some coins and noticed I had a silver dime. So I give the teller the machine receipt then have this discussion.

Me - can you pay me for this silver dime
Teller - OK
Me - what did you give me for the dime
Teller - 10 cents
Me - give me that back.
Me - You know that with it being silver it's worth about 2 bucks?
Teller - Blank Stare

I know it's only worth $1.70 or something like that but it's the point of not giving the banks ANYTHING anymore.

Anyway, I thought you folks would enjoy that.


so were you asking him to give you $2 for the dime sort of ?

this almost sounds like a case of cruelty to animals & tellers ! :o

the poor teller can only do what they tell him.

but the BRANCH MANAGER can make "executive decisions", e.g. to give you a higher interest rate on a CD.

but giving you $2 for a silver dime won't help the branch manager's bonus.

[willie pete]

in one branch I used to frequent, I had a teller friend who would watch out for me, I told her I collected old half dollar coins, went in one day and she had 10 or 12 WL's & Franks for me.... ;D ...gave her $6 or $7 and thanked her....

It"s funny to think that $3.20 in change in your pocket prior to 1964 would be worth $53.12 today... :D

[madfranks]

I always eyeball the coins the tellers keep on hand to make change, and one day I saw a blast white, copper free edge on one of the dimes. When the teller was giving me my cash, I said "can I please have that silver dime?" while pointing to it, and the teller was confused; it ended up being more trouble than it was worth, because she didn't understand why I wanted that specific dime; in her mind they are all the same, 10 cents. Anyway, she was annoyed with me, but I got the silver! :)

[kregener]

Vending machine company I knew decades ago CLEANED UP.

[palani]

A guy came up to me a couple of years ago and asked if I had a dime for the coffee machine. It wouldn't take his. I told him that his dime was silver but all he wanted was another so he could get his caffeine fix.

The coffee machine was more discriminating that he was (it rejected silver).

[kregener]

That was the case with the vending co.

Silver dimes would bend going through the machine, jam it up. They would come out to service it and retrieve the bent dimes.

They had bags and bags full of them. I saw them with my own eyes.

[goldleaf]

Vending machine guys still come out like a bandit, ( pool tables, video gambling, juke boxes, car washes,
laundromats etc.) It might not be silver coins, but its still cash!! ;) ;)

[Glass]

Vending machine guys still come out like a bandit, ( pool tables, video gambling, juke boxes, car washes,
laundromats etc.) It might not be silver coins, but its still cash!! ;) ;)


yeah, going by the books vending machines are very unprofitable.

[Filthy Keynes]

That's exactly why many laundromats, etc use TOKENS instead of coins. Same goes for playing poker, you get "chips'. Imagine how stupid you'd look winning 1000 chips and going home with the chips instead of "cashing out". The problem is, 99.999999% of society does that very thing on a daily basis with their fake copper/steel/aluminum/paper "money". Or think about leaving the county fair with a pocket full of paper "ride" tickets and thinking you were rich!

Think about it - walking out of a casino with a bag of TOKENS.

http://www.redroom.com/files/u193/raffle.jpg

NO DAMN DIFFERENCE

http://themostimportantnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dollar-Toilet-Paper.jpg

[RJB]

Just got back from the bank to get rid of some coins and noticed I had a silver dime. The first thing I do with any change I receive is to notice the metal content from silver coins to the pre-83 copper pennies. How could you just notice a silver dime when returning it to a bank?

[General of Darkness]

Just got back from the bank to get rid of some coins and noticed I had a silver dime. The first thing I do with any change I receive is to notice the metal content from silver coins to the pre-83 copper pennies. How could you just notice a silver dime when returning it to a bank?


It was my mothers and it was a spur of the moment deal.

[General of Darkness]

I went to BOA to close my accounts today and while there I asked for a box of halves to prospect through. Teller said she had none, but when I eyed her change tray I saw three silver sides, so I said I'll take what you have in your change tray. 3 out of 5 were silver. 2 Kennedys and a Franklin. I can't believe that even people working in the bank are so stupid as to what is real money. Oh well.


Heck you just made $22 bucks, very nice. ;)