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Friday, 16 September 2005

Take my coins away

Ars Technica takes note of a new deal between Coinstar and Amazon.com that will let you exchange your pesky coins for Amazon.com gift certificates at face value. Where was this service last month, before I lugged all my change from Jackson to Durham in Ziploc bags?

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1. Alfred Sumrall wrote @ Sat, 17 Sep 2005, 10:03 am CDT:

Get one of those empty 5 gallon water cooler jugs and use that for coins. Thing is, if it ever fills up, it’ll take a forklift to pick it up, but you’re looking at a couple grand.

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