PLAYERS TASKS PRAXIS TEAMS EVENTS
Username:Password:
New player? Sign Up Here
donot findme
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 30 points
Last Logged In: March 25th, 2008
BADGE: New Player

View donot findme's:



retired
0 points

Pay It In Pennies by donot findme

August 14th, 2006 6:35 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Pay in pennies for something worth more than one dollar.

Hehe... I bought my MacBook (1099 dollars), and actually paid for it in pennies. This guy behind the cash register's like... OMG. He took me and the bag of pennies to the nearest bank to get it counted, and turns out there was one pennie too many.

0 vote(s)

Terms

(none yet)

8 comment(s)

(no subject)
posted by Aaron on August 14th, 2006 6:44 AM

Let's see some pics!

Also - did you do the tax calculation beforehand so you knew how many pennies you'd need... ahem, down to the penny?

Did the guy really walk with you to the bank?!

How did you carry over one hundred thousand pennies?

Pics, pics, pics!

Sounds good if there's some proof!

hmmmm.
posted by ambitron indifornian on August 14th, 2006 9:07 AM

what apple store did you buy it at?

coz usually if someones paying in pennies, small dollar bills, or something like that, we would tell them to go to the bank and get it changed out before we took it.

Wow.
posted by Britt ++ on August 14th, 2006 10:09 AM

How did you manage to carry 743.54 lbs. of pennies into the Apple Store?

Edit: estimate based on 1,000 pennies weighing 6.25 lbs.

(no subject)
posted by SNORLAX on August 14th, 2006 10:33 AM

do you at least have a pic of the penny collection?

PS
posted by SNORLAX on August 14th, 2006 12:09 PM

Banks don't count bulk coins. The best they'll ever do is send a bag of coins to an outside facility to be counted and then deposited

EDIT
BofA and either CITI or WELLS FARGO (one of the two, i forget) won't count them
and I can only speak for SF

(no subject)
posted by r0ck c4ndy on August 14th, 2006 12:26 PM

Banks have coin counters. I recently cashed in a change jar for $597. As a waitress this was my savings plan, I paid for everything with whole dollars and brought the change home. But that was almost entirely quarters. And I've turned in up to $700 in change, still mostly quarters, and the bank was HIGHLY ANNOYED, so I find it very suspicious that you paid 1099 in PENNIES and no one cared...

EDIT TOO!: I go to Wells, so it must be CITI. And maybe they are different in other locales...

I also call bullshit on this one
posted by W F on August 14th, 2006 1:33 PM

While my math differs slightly from Britt Crawford's, I think he's on the right track in disproving this. Pre-1982 pennies weigh 3.1 grams each. Pennies minted after 1982 weigh 2.5 grams each. This means your "bag of pennies" would have been in the neighborhood of 600-750 pounds.

References to a penny's weight can be found here: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/MillicentOkereke.shtml

(no subject)
posted by Sean Mahan on August 26th, 2006 7:56 PM

You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends, but you can't get away with making such a claim without some kind of proof - or at least a comment rebuttal.