quarter jams

[mac]

Has anyone else noticed that when you find quarters jammed in an acceptor they are really jammed. Their thinking must be well if I just push a little harder the coins will go through.

 

[Eric H]

I think they think that if the coin breaks the plane of the faceplate, no matter how much they have to jam it in, it will/should give them credit.

 

[APW]

I am constantly finding jams in my slug busters due to people putting dimes, nickels, and pennies.

 

[traveler17]

I had a guy the other day put 2.75 in a drop shelf for a 1.25 little tree. So yes they keep dropping more in expecting another result. He caused the jam w a quarter that had a “tear” on the edge

 

[OurTown]

I had a guy the other day put 2.75 in a drop shelf for a 1.25 little tree. So yes they keep dropping more in expecting another result. He caused the jam w a quarter that had a “tear” on the edge

We had a guy put in $2.50 into a $1.25 Little Tree drop shelf vendor and expected to pull the handle twice.

 

[traveler17]

We had a guy put in $2.50 into a $1.25 Little Tree drop shelf vendor and expected to pull the handle twice.

lmao. Even if that’s not a joke it’s absolutely believable

 

[Eric H]

We had a guy put in $2.50 into a $1.25 Little Tree drop shelf vendor and expected to pull the handle twice.

I do NOT miss the pull handle vendors! Bought my first ShurVend in 2001 and never looked back.

 

[OurTown]

lmao. Even if that’s not a joke it’s absolutely believable

The stuff we car wash operators see is unbelievable sometimes. You just can't make this stuff up.

 

[DPD36]

On the slugbusters, I was having frequent jams caused by various coins. My acceptors were 16 years old and I suspected that the plastic coins chutes were quite worn. Over a period of a couple weeks I sent them all in to be refurbished and have not had a jam since.

Cost was minimal and I had them all upgraded to the newer style that is easier to clear jams.

 

[traveler17]

The stuff we car wash operators see is unbelievable sometimes. You just can't make this stuff up.

Truth

 

[Randy]

I know operator here who got tired of people in foreign coin or nickels and dimes so he wedged over the reject shoe in his coin acceptors so any coin that is dropped into the coin acceptor won't come out of the coin return. Then he put a sticker on the front of the coin box that says " US Quarters and XYZ Car wash tokens only, all other coins will be lost" that ended his problems with jammed coin box coin acceptors. The only coins and tokens that give credit are Quarters and his tokens, everything else falls into the safe.

 

[mac]

This is one of the reasons we have sleepy Joe and on your knees Kamala in office.

 

[mjwalsh]

I know operator here who got tired of people in foreign coin or nickels and dimes so he wedged over the reject shoe in his coin acceptors so any coin that is dropped into the coin acceptor won't come out of the coin return. Then he put a sticker on the front of the coin box that says " US Quarters and XYZ Car wash tokens only, all other coins will be lost" that ended his problems with jammed coin box coin acceptors. The only coins and tokens that give credit are Quarters and his tokens, everything else falls into the safe.

The "lost warning" could be part of the solution for us to protect against our non customers from using our ChangeMakers instead of the more appropriate goto bank or CoinStar machine. It is surprising how "entitled" some of those rascals can become. I was even screamed at & called "rascist" out of the blue for just suggesting that it is much better if they go to their bank to exchange their small change into quarters & dollar coins.

 

[mjwalsh]

The "lost warning" could be part of the solution for us to protect against our non customers from using our ChangeMakers instead of the more appropriate goto bank or CoinStar machine. It is surprising how "entitled" some of those rascals can become. I was even screamed at & called "rascist" out of the blue for just suggesting that it is much better if they go to their bank to exchange their small change into quarters & dollar coins. Our dollar coin transition is taking longer than we planned ... otherwise we might have already fixed the programming within both changemakers to hopefully make it so their nickels & dimes are less likely to be used.