On the Accuracy of CoinStar
According to an article that a reader pointed out in the comments to my earlier post on using CoinStar for free, CoinStar coin-counting machines aren't necessarily accurate, but at least they're not biased... Based on a survey of five different machines at five different locations, the machines were spot on three times, overcounted by a dime once, and undercounted by a nickel in the final test (out of $17.50 in actual change fed into the machine). All in all, I'd have to say that these results would be close enough for me... My main quibble with CoinStar is that I'm not interested in giving them close to 10% of what I feed into the machine (although, as I've noted before, you can get around the fees by opting for a gift card from a participating merchant).
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