Dumping zinc at Coinstar for Home Depot credit

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

Here's a tip I wanted to share with other sorts here looking for ways to dump there zinc cents. Use the Home Depot gift card option from Coinstar. Only selected Coinstar machines have this option so you will need to go to the Coinstar website to find a machine near you that has it. Here's the link:
https://www.coinstar.com/kioskfinder/thehomedepot

Take the eGift card with you to Home Depot the next time you need to make a purchase there and be sure to use their self checkout machines. The checkout machine will read the bar code from the eGift card making payment super easy. And here's the best part... If the balance remaining on the eGift card falls below $10 the machine will give you the balance in cash.

Last weekend I was doing yard work and needed to pick something up from Home Depot. I grabbed a small bag of zinc cents I had recently sorted and stopped by the Coinstar machine at CVS on the way to Home Depot. It only took a few minutes for the machine to count the $19+ in coins and print the eGift card. I made my purchase at Home Depot which was less than the amount of the eGift card so the machine gave me back a $5 bill and change. Not a bad way to get rid of some extra zinc cents while making a purchase I was already going to make.

[Chief]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing this.

[xippi]

+1

HD is handy. Might try that, I usually get the Amazon Gcard.

Check the coinstar web site as 2.5cents mentioned there are many other gift cards to choose from. all for zero percent "free" they also run promotions sometimes. like turn in 50$ in coins get X

The machines in TD bank machines are still there with there Out of Order signs still on em.

[NHsorter]

The TD Bank machines are done for good. They are going to be removing them from all the branches.

[wheeler_dealer]

COOL!!! Just checked out the site and I am lucky as there is a participating coinstar where I grocery shop. Noticed there were a lot of businesses from my area to redeem them at also. Thanks for sharing two and a half.

[Recyclersteve]

Now I've got an extra dump location!

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

Great tip two and a half cents. I like the the cash back option.

One can never have too many dump options.

[chris6084]

Getting cash back for gift cards under $10 is a California thing. It was a law at one time, but I am not sure now, I think some retailers pushed back.

In other states, it depends on the retailer. Most will not give you cash back, they will leave the balance on the gift card or 'gift code' even if it is 2 cents.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

Getting cash back for gift cards under $10 is a California thing. It was a law at one time, but I am not sure now, I think some retailers pushed back.

In other states, it depends on the retailer. Most will not give you cash back, they will leave the balance on the gift card or 'gift code' even if it is 2 cents.

Thank you for the insight about the cash back option being a California thing. I found some more details on the California Department of Consumer Affairs website:

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/s-11.shtml

Any gift certificate sold after January 1, 1997, is redeemable in cash for its cash value, or subject to replacement with a new gift certificate at no cost to the purchaser or holder. Effective January 1, 2008, any gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 is redeemable in cash, which includes currency or check, for its cash value.