pissed! $1000 bag of dimes short

[lance]

Just cashed them in and my total was 978.50. I only found 2 silver rosies...advice?

[blackrabbit]

Beer!

[lance]

Lol....im pissed! Ive tested my dump machine before and its accurate...im thinking of saying something to my buy bank but i dont want them to quit selling because they think im lying or some [shucks]....but then again...maybe i need to find a new buy bank!

[Kurr]

Go in next week, Get a manager.
Buy a bag.
With the manager standing next to you, open it and run it through the machine.
LOUDLY note the difference and demand a refund, and compensation.
For added effect, bring a deputy and apply frequent use of the "F" and "T" word (Fraud and Theft).

*Note: This could work against you, as the machine theoretically could be over by the same amount it could be under.

[henrysmedford]

We were shorted $15 in a dollar bag and also it had 65 tokens for a total of $80 and the bank made it right see -- http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5403&p=51413&hilit=+short#p51165

[lance]

Interesting....the only thing is this is a bank i dont have a account with...but they do know me and ive bought $1000 of coins from them

[DebtFreeMe]

I had that happen once. My receipt showed the number of dimes and pennies that were dumped in... When it had $1.50 in pennies on the receipt I talked to the manager, pointed out that I only have dimes... I have another couple hundred to run, so she could see I did have just dimes, she opened the machine, did a cursory exam of the bags and could clearly see that my dump had only been dimes. So, she waived the fee for the machine (1%) and credited all the pennies as dimes...

Unfortunately they shut down the machine, it was down for months, so I had to find another way to get my dump cashed in.

[lance]

I have bought penny bags before and found several dimes in it...i didnt look at the penny count...next time i will

[ZenOps]

Bring in a portable weight scale next time.

[Metals Mogul]

That's the risk you take sometimes when you buy bags. Chalk it up as a loss and keep going, or find a new bank.

[CU Baker]

$32.60 is the most I have been shorted on a bag of dimes, but I did get twelve silver from it. Not a word said, because this little bank calls me every time they have four hundred bagged up in cents. Just got to take the good with the bad some times.

[slickeast]

That is why you shouldn't dump dimes into those machines. Did the printout show pennies being counted?

[OtusLotus]

When I bought my bag of pennies from the bank, they said emphatically.. "the bag could be over, or it could be under!"

I told them that I understood, and they sold me the bag.

I think if I told them that the bag had to be 100% accurate, they wouldn't have sold it to me. Caveat Emptor.

[newton7]

I got a bag of dimes several weeks back that by my count was about 15 dollars short. This is the first where the mistake was in the banks favor. I generally get dimes in my penny bags. The banks are hesitant to sell for the just this reason. They don't know what's in the bags. I accept the possibility of shortages as part if hunting bags which beats cracking rolls any day.

[fasteddy]

yep what newton7 wrote...make a stink and they will stop selling bags....take the knock and keep going. S_it happens.

[knibloe]

This hobby comes with risks and rewards. You gotta be willing to take them both.

I won't dump dimes in a machine. Wrap em or bag em.

Definately don't make a stink if you want to keep getting them.

[creshka46]

This is why I stopped doing dimes. I noticed that I was always shorted when I dumped dimes, not sure if the machine was counting bad, or if the boxes were short before I opened them. Now, all I am willing to do is pennies, nickels, and the occasional halves. With pennies, I often get dimes, with nickels I often get quarters, so I usually end up ahead. And halves are so big that I think the machines are really accurate with them, I haven't been shorted yet.

[lance]

Thanks for the advice guys