CEC tokens sitting on Coinstar machine

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There is a grocery store near my work where I sometimes get lunch, and on the way out every day there is a Coinstar machine by the exit. I always look to see if there's change lying around on the floor.

Today I noticed 3 "coins" sitting on the top of the machine. The coins turned out to be 2 CEC tokens from 1997 and 2009, and a Jeeper's token!

I figured if there was anyone else out there besides me who would consider this an awesome find, it would be you guys, LOL.
 
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The white box on the left is 100% CEC tokens of various vintages. The brown box on the right are Funset Boulevard (local competing FEC) tokens and a few generics. The bins in the middle are miscellaneous .984 and .900 tokens respectively.

We didn't pay a cent for any of this. I found all of these in our machines.
 
I have no idea what a Jeeper's is though!

Jeeper's is a defunct company that used to make brass washers. Unfortunately, they hadn't figured out how to punch the hole in the middle, so you had to drill it yourself. Needless to say, they didn't last too long in the marketplace, as the pre-punched washers were far more convenient and sold much better.

-Ian
 
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The white box on the left is 100% CEC tokens of various vintages. The brown box on the right are Funset Boulevard (local competing FEC) tokens and a few generics. The bins in the middle are miscellaneous .984 and .900 tokens respectively.

We didn't pay a cent for any of this. I found all of these in our machines.

Showoff.. LOL :D
 
I'd take that any day of the week over the canadian coin scam. Apologies to our friends up north!!

Being in NY and fairly close to Canada, I get Canadian coins in my change all the time. It's not that big a deal - especially since I think their money is worth more than ours at this point. They pretty much just circulate with all the rest of the coins here. The only problem is that Canadian coins are steel, and will sometimes jam coin-op devices with a magnet in it to pull out slugs.

-Ian
 
Being in NY and fairly close to Canada, I get Canadian coins in my change all the time. It's not that big a deal - especially since I think their money is worth more than ours at this point. They pretty much just circulate with all the rest of the coins here. The only problem is that Canadian coins are steel, and will sometimes jam coin-op devices with a magnet in it to pull out slugs.

-Ian
Do what the rest of us do: pass them along to someone else. :D
 
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The white box on the left is 100% CEC tokens of various vintages. The brown box on the right are Funset Boulevard (local competing FEC) tokens and a few generics. The bins in the middle are miscellaneous .984 and .900 tokens respectively.

We didn't pay a cent for any of this. I found all of these in our machines.

So did these tokens coin up the games, or just fall into the box without a credit?
 
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Some where I have some pics of the 2,000 pounds of mostly .984 (About 160K of tokens.) that came in a wooden crate via a 18 wheeler. That was fun pulling out the quarters that were in there. About 17 bucks worth plus a few CEC tokens. Most were from one place. Funny thing is the guy I bought them from ended up needing to buy some from me later on so I sold the rest of what I had to him (Approx 50K).
 
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im thinking that may not be morally correct? but I could be wrong

I guess I'm missing why this wouldn't be morally correct? Someone left these behind because they weren't accepted as "currency". At CEC, they ARE currency, so what am I missing? Should I have left the tokens there for someone else to pick up?

Sorry, I was up at 5AM loading a BZ into my truck by myself so, I'm a little fuzzy. :D
 
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The white box on the left is 100% CEC tokens of various vintages. The brown box on the right are Funset Boulevard (local competing FEC) tokens and a few generics. The bins in the middle are miscellaneous .984 and .900 tokens respectively.

We didn't pay a cent for any of this. I found all of these in our machines.

Those might be useful if some of the games at Funset actually worked ;)
 
So did these tokens coin up the games, or just fall into the box without a credit?

The .984s tend to coin up the game just fine. When we were 100% tokens we had a HUGE CEC token problem, I'd say about 5% of plays were with tokens we didn't get any money for. The .900s came mostly from used games we bought with unemptied coin bins, but a lot of them (particularly the Funset tokens) came from coin jams and from games that don't have a return slot/box and "eat" rejected coins instead.

Those might be useful if some of the games at Funset actually worked ;)

I haven't had much of a chance to visit Funset, but here's what I do know:
  • They have quadrupled their technical staff over the last 3-4 years. (Badger opened its new facility with the gameroom almost exactly four years ago. Coincidence? I think not.)
  • They have a LOT fewer downed games than they used to. It looks like they're trying to clean up their act. I've also heard rumors of new laser tag equipment, but the last time I was there they still had the old vests. (Maybe they bought new-old vests? Hah.)
  • Even with the questionable functioning ability of their games, they STILL beat the pants off ours. We have newer, but much less of it, and of those newer games, only one of them is any good (Time Crisis 4).
 
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