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brassplayersrock² · Aug 11, 2006, 05:06 PM

over the last 3 months I have been getting more and more Canadian quarters in my US$10 rolls. So far $2.75. isn't there a filter person who makes sure that all quarters going into rolls are us quarters? anyways, just wanted to get it out there to make sure to check your coin rolls to make sure it's all your countries currency

Alex

Landos Mustache · Aug 11, 2006, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

just wanted to get it out there to make sure to check your coin rolls to make sure it's all your countries currency

Alex

Ya, it is probibly a terrorist plot

Thanks for the important heads up.

invisibleX · Aug 11, 2006, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Ya, it is probibly a terrorist plot

Thanks for the important heads up.

Infiltrating america, one quarter at a time.

Person Man · Aug 11, 2006, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

over the last 3 months I have been getting more and more Canadian quarters in my US$10 rolls. So far $2.75. isn't there a filter person who makes sure that all quarters going into rolls are us quarters? anyways, just wanted to get it out there to make sure to check your coin rolls to make sure it's all your countries currency

Alex

You know that if you use a coin or two of Canadian money in the US, they usually honor it at full US face value.

Big deal.

brassplayersrock² · Aug 11, 2006, 08:39 PM

you try getting outed a quarter or two for almost every other quarter roll. it adds up after a while. big deal is right

imitchellg5 · Aug 11, 2006, 08:54 PM

I asked for change for a $10 at Safeway and they gave me $10 in Canadian. I was very unhappy.

ghporter · Aug 11, 2006, 09:18 PM

brassplayersrock, where are you? I grew up near Detroit, and most of the time about a third of my pocket change was Canadian. No big deal. Particularly since they are (except the Looney, which is its own case) physically interchangable with U.S. coins-and work fine in vending machines.

I spent two years in Panama, from '87 to '89. They had NO paper currency of their own-it was all U.S. dollars. But their coins are distinctive-and except for the writing and pictures, identical to U.S. coins. Again, no big deal.

Now getting $10Canadian in change in Colorado is another matter. Technically that's only about $8.88US-and if the cashier knew that's what was happening, it sounds like a visit to the store's management is in order. If you paid in US currency in a US store in Colorado, you should get that much change in US currency.

Eug · Aug 11, 2006, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

over the last 3 months I have been getting more and more Canadian quarters in my US$10 rolls. So far $2.75. isn't there a filter person who makes sure that all quarters going into rolls are us quarters? anyways, just wanted to get it out there to make sure to check your coin rolls to make sure it's all your countries currency

Hmmm... CAD$2.75 is about US$2.45

If you really want, I'll PayPal you the extra US$0.30 you're still owed.

brassplayersrock² · 10:35 PM

vending machines ae?
edit: no go, i shall go over to wendys and get a shake and see if they accept it.

my paypal:
edited out because i was just joking around but... as you shall see below

edit 2:
yep wendys worked. feel bad though. oh well

Athens · Aug 11, 2006, 09:29 PM

Coins are treated at face value (except loonies and toonies) and you shouldn't worry about it. Side note almost every time I get change 7 out of 10 times, It will have a US coin in it.

Eug · Aug 11, 2006, 09:34 PM

Heh. I would've sent you the cash had the email been real.

P.S. I was wrong. It's not $0.30 you're owed. According to the latest exchange rate, you're owed $0.31.

ghporter · Aug 11, 2006, 09:37 PM

...or pop the quarters in a Coke machine and you're even. It's not even slightly immoral. Really.

brassplayersrock² · Aug 11, 2006, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

Heh. I would've sent you the cash had the email been real.

P.S. I was wrong. It's not $0.30 you're owed. According to the latest exchange rate, you're owed $0.31.

that actually was an old email account of mine that's not in use anymore, it however is my paypal account

Athens · Aug 11, 2006, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

...or pop the quarters in a Coke machine and you're even. It's not even slightly immoral. Really.

Unless you travel to Canada and buy hundreds of dollars worth just to rip the Coke machines off, then its immoral

ghporter · Aug 11, 2006, 09:45 PM

True, Athens. Situational ethics is a slippery subject. It would be worse if you ripped off the Coke machines and then resold the ilicit proceeds for a profit, too.

Eug · Aug 11, 2006, 10:11 PM

((11x0.25) - (11x0.25x0.888) + 0.32) - (((11x0.25) - (11x0.25x0.888) + 0.32)x0.039 + 0.30) = 0.31

brassplayersrock² · Aug 11, 2006, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

((11x0.25) - (11x0.25x0.888) + 0.32) - (((11x0.25) - (11x0.25x0.888) + 0.32)x0.039 + 0.30) = 0.31

LMAO thank you I say from behind bouts of laughter

Alex

we REALLY need a ROFL smilie

brassplayersrock² · 10:40 PM

you sir are a good man. thank you

Alex
edit:
disclaimer: i had absolutely ZERO in before tonight

Athens · Aug 11, 2006, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

True, Athens. Situational ethics is a slippery subject. It would be worse if you ripped off the Coke machines and then resold the ilicit proceeds for a profit, too.

hummmm I think your on to something, A Coke machine can hold about 500 cans of pop, so if you bought 250 bucks of Canadian money (assuming your walmart coke machines sell for 50 cents) emptied the machine, resold the Cokes for 70 cents that leaves you with a profit of (500x 20 cents Pakistan) plus saving 45 bucks getting Canadian money, $145 per pop machine. Hit 5 machines a day, your making $725.00 a day.

(waits to see on the news a rash of Canadian money in empty pop machines)

Eug · 10:28 PM

Heh. However, you are about to get Tookinated... Pic too big.

P.S. Please blank out my name.

EDIT: Thx. You're still gonna get Tookinated though.

Originally Posted by Athens

hummmm I think your on to something, A Coke machine can hold about 500 cans of pop, so if you bought 250 bucks of Canadian money (assuming your walmart coke machines sell for 50 cents) emptied the machine, resold the Cokes for 70 cents that leaves you with a profit of (500x 20 cents Pakistan) plus saving 45 bucks getting Canadian money, $145 per pop machine. Hit 5 machines a day, your making $725.00 a day.

(waits to see on the news a rash of Canadian money in empty pop machines)

Usually my Canadian coins don't work in US vending machines actually. Similarly, US coins often don't work in Canadian vending machines.

And why wouldn't you just buy the pop at the grocery store for much cheaper, and then sell it on the street for a buck like a hot dog vendor?

brassplayersrock² · Aug 11, 2006, 10:31 PM

done and done. thanks again Eug

Alex

moonmonkey · Aug 11, 2006, 10:33 PM

Do they have the queen on them?

brassplayersrock² · Aug 11, 2006, 10:34 PM

yeah they do moonmonkey. the last one i got was from 1997

Alex

"EDIT: Thx. You're still gonna get Tookinated though."

for using to many smilies?

Athens · Aug 11, 2006, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by Eug

Heh. However, you are about to get Tookinated... Pic too big.

P.S. Please blank out my name.

EDIT: Thx. You're still gonna get Tookinated though.

Usually my Canadian coins don't work in US vending machines actually. Similarly, US coins often don't work in Canadian vending machines.

And why wouldn't you just buy the pop at the grocery store for much cheaper, and then sell it on the street for a buck like a hot dog vendor?

or just buy the pop in Canada and smuggle it back

Athens · Aug 11, 2006, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by moonmonkey

Do they have the queen on them?

sadly and she ages on our money lol

Eug · Aug 11, 2006, 10:36 PM

((11x0.25) - (11x0.25x0.888) + 0.32) - (((11x0.25) - (11x0.25x0.888) + 0.32)x0.039 + 0.30) = 0.31

My math skillz øwn j00!!!1

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Aug 12, 2006, 10:24 AM

In most vending machines coke is $1 in the US and $1 in Canada.

Use canadian quarters to buy a coke in the US and you are saving money.

hey!_Zeus · Aug 12, 2006, 01:04 PM

This thread should be about getting rid of the penny. One penny costs 1 and one half cent to make.

And is basically ending up in jars everywhere.

brassplayersrock² · Aug 12, 2006, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

In most vending machines coke is $1 in the US and $1 in Canada.

Use canadian quarters to buy a coke in the US and you are saving money.

i tried that. no go.

oh and the plastic bottled coke here is $1.25 and

usually $2.00 at the airport

Alex

imitchellg5 · Aug 12, 2006, 03:48 PM

Or $7.00 at theatres.

brassplayersrock² · Aug 12, 2006, 03:51 PM

$7? they're like $4.50 here at theatres.

$7 BUCKS though? yikes

Alex

Eug · Aug 12, 2006, 08:12 PM

Nah, it's not that much, unless you get the super duper extra large size. I can never finish even their small size anyways, so I just buy a drink outside for CAD$1 and bring it in.

imitchellg5 · Aug 12, 2006, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

$7? they're like $4.50 here at theatres.

$7 BUCKS though? yikes

Alex

Yes I know. It is horrible. Water is $4.50.

olePigeon · Aug 12, 2006, 08:48 PM

*cue dramatic music*

"It's not bad enough you had to do it with pennies... but, but quarters? Yoooou sick on of a

"

Athens · Aug 12, 2006, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

In most vending machines coke is $1 in the US and $1 in Canada.

Use canadian quarters to buy a coke in the US and you are saving money.

you noticed I said Wal Mart Pop machines, those are 55 cents

Spliffdaddy · Aug 12, 2006, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by Athens

Coins are treated at face value (except loonies and toonies) and you shouldn't worry about it. Side note almost every time I get change 7 out of 10 times, It will have a US coin in it.

BONUS!

lucky ass.