Got ripped off by a change machine today

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How did a nickel even get in the machine?!

And why would it vend it?!

I have used this machine many times in the past and never had a problem.

I put another dollar in just to see and I got four quarters that time.
 

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I recall several years ago putting a $5 bill into a potato chip vending machine and getting like $1.25 chips.

I got like eight or nine dollar coins in change.

Came back the next day with a bunch of $5 bills 😁

But got normal change each time.

Crazy.
 
Sloppy attendant!
Of course there is no mechanism to check things on their way OUT of a machine, just on the way in.
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I think that is a difference between a modern change machine and the old rowe change machines. I could be wrong, but I dont think a Rowe would vend a coin that did not fit the size of the hopper was setup. It would either jam the hopper or it would toss it out(I dont mess with change machines much But I think the rowe 3 hopper machines had a reject tray inside them). vs the newer machines which are more like a coin mech with a hopper built into them.

but its the operator mistake. does not have a coin sorter.
 
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I sometimes get a crappy Canadian quarter from vending and change machines.

I toss them in the trash to spare the next customer the same inconvenience.
I keep a couple Canadian quarters in my change machine in the basement. Makes it more of a mad dash to get another quarter in while the "continue?" Timer is counting down on Raiden or Target Terror haha
 
That was pretty standard back in the day living in Michigan

Yeah, they pop up quite often here as well.
The problem with Canuck quarters is that they're pretty much unusable in games or vending machines. My bank won't accept them either.

That's why it's best to throw them in the trash.
 
I think that is a difference between a modern change machine and the old rowe change machines. I could be wrong, but I dont think a Rowe would vend a coin that did not fit the size of the hopper was setup. It would either jam the hopper or it would toss it out(I dont mess with change machines much But I think the rowe 3 hopper machines had a reject tray inside them). vs the newer machines which are more like a coin mech with a hopper built into them.

but its the operator mistake. does not have a coin sorter.
Yes it would. It's a gear that takes the coins in. If it falls into the slot (and it would) it will dispense it.
 
Yeah, they pop up quite often here as well.
The problem with Canuck quarters is that they're pretty much unusable in games or vending machines. My bank won't accept them either.

That's why it's best to throw them in the trash.
Waaaat? They seem to work fine when I use them in the states. They just don't like out funny poly notes.
 
I'll paypal you the $0.20 if you want.


This is a super easy mistake to make, if a nickel gets mixed in with the quarters it could go unnoticed. Change machines don't check every coin on the way out, it would take insanely long to dispense coins.

I believe that changer uses a spinning disk to put coins into escrow, as long as a coin breaks the photo eye it counts it as good. Same thing could happen with the chain driven hoppers or even the stacker tubes.
 
I'll paypal you the $0.20 if you want.


This is a super easy mistake to make, if a nickel gets mixed in with the quarters it could go unnoticed. Change machines don't check every coin on the way out, it would take insanely long to dispense coins.

I believe that changer uses a spinning disk to put coins into escrow, as long as a coin breaks the photo eye it counts it as good. Same thing could happen with the chain driven hoppers or even the stacker tubes.
Thats true. On the redemption machines we use, the quarter and nickel hoppers are interchangable. If we swap one out and there is a rouge coin still in it, it will get counted and dispensed.
 
Yeah, they pop up quite often here as well.
The problem with Canuck quarters is that they're pretty much unusable in games or vending machines. My bank won't accept them either.

That's why it's best to throw them in the trash.
Collect them and bring them to a coin shop or currency exchange. You'll lose some value based on the exchange rate, but you'll get money out.
 
Yes it would. It's a gear that takes the coins in. If it falls into the slot (and it would) it will dispense it.
I spoke to my buddy about older rowe changers. the hopper essentially has a bike chain with spacers set in the chain to lift the desired size coin. it snakes it up the hopper to the top to dump it into the shute where the optical sensors counts it.

if the hopper is setup to take say quarters, a nickel or a dime is too small to fit in the gap set for the quarter and will fall off the chain. so if you had 5 nickels and 5 dimes mixed in with say 1000 quarters, the hopper will dispense all 1000 quarters and when it could not lift the nickel or dime to the shute. it would eventually time out the hopper, shut down that hopper, and dispense coins from the next hopper(assuming it had multiple hoppers and had a max capacity board in it). so when you went to refill the hopper the 5 nickels and 5 dimes would be sitting in the bottom of it. it could not dispense a nickel or a dime unless you had a nickel or dime hopper in it.

once it cycles thru all the hoppers then it goes into lockout. rowe would pre load into 3 storage bins. So after payout, if it cant fill the bin, then it would go into lockout. 3 hopper rowe changers have 3 optical sensors. thats how it works in all rowe changers up to the 3500 series.

my buddy says american changers do it in a similar way but have a belt drive instead of a chain drive.
 
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