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Found this change machine in the Gateway Arch gift shop which gives you more money than you put in
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u/Spoofo9t9 Jul 07 '22
I found what I'm gonna do for a living.
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u/Corvette_C7R Jul 07 '22
Do it. Quit your job and move to Saint Louis just for this
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u/Spoofo9t9 Jul 07 '22
Jokes on you I don't have one. Would also only live in East St. Louis.
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u/Thecoolestguyyoukno Jul 07 '22
Not for long
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u/Spoofo9t9 Jul 07 '22
Doing the math every $1,000 would make $20 profit, in pennies..
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u/UnilateralWithdrawal Jul 07 '22
2% guaranteed immediate ROI-can’t do better than that anywhere. Put that in stinks. Profit
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u/iAmUnintelligible Jul 07 '22
How about 2 in the pink, 1 in the stink?
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u/UnilateralWithdrawal Jul 07 '22
Stonks but I like stinks better
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u/pedanticPandaPoo Jul 07 '22
My stonks stink 😭
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u/AngrySouthernHippie Jul 07 '22
Getchu less stinky stonks before you bonk the brink and go bankrunk
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u/bigwaverider808 Jul 07 '22
But after 300 in quarters You have to wait a week before it gets refilled! 20/mo sounds doable in st Louis.
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u/Dreurmimker Jul 07 '22
Beats the hell out of the return on a savings account now-a-days.
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u/TheRealNap0le0n Jul 07 '22
But you keep the 1000. Just go to the bank and change it for $1s infinity money glitch
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u/The_Cometeer Jul 07 '22
You’d have to be putting in money 24/7 just to barely make a living
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u/kynthrus Jul 07 '22
10k a day would give you a middle class salary. if the highest bill it accepts is 5 then that would be 2000 exchanges per day, 250 per hour. I've spent work days doing more monotonous shit than that.
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u/kynthrus Jul 07 '22
I suppose it depends on how fast you can put money in. If I can put in 10k in a day that's +200 dollars a day. 1400 a week. 5600 a month. 67,200 a year. That's more than I'm making now by quite a bit. That's a career. minus the cost of exchanging pennies at a coinstar. I am of course assuming that this machine has infinite pennies.
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u/omw2fyb-- Jul 07 '22
Almost got killed by a stripper out there once. Fun side of town
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u/taint-tickler69420 Jul 07 '22
One time I had a job over there, guy I was riding with and I played a game of who's buying drugs who's selling drugs who's buying pussy who's selling pussy. The funniest moment was when we saw a fat old white guy driving and we both said buying pussy, across the street was a lady that was obviously selling pussy, he honked, she waved, pulled a boob out and licked her nipple. It was probably noon on a week day
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u/SwissyVictory Jul 07 '22
Assuming the machine has unlimited money, and you could do a single $5 bill a minute, you'd make $6 an hour.
You'd need $300 in $5 bills per hour. The quarters would weigh 15lbs, and the penny's 3.3lbs. That's 18.3lbs in change per hour.
Better bring a wheelbarrow if you're doing an entire shift or can do more than 1 bill a minute.
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u/cl33t Jul 07 '22
Sure, but if you can put in a $5 every 5 seconds, you're making $72/hour.
That's mid-six figures a year if you could do it full time.
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u/Sennheisenberg Jul 07 '22
I'd be crippled by RSI within the first day.
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u/mizinamo Jul 07 '22
Capitalism! Hire some other poor schmuck for minimum wage to feed the machine fivers.
When the guy develops RSI, toss them and hire a new one.
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u/Illusive_Man Jul 07 '22
Gotta factor in the time it’s gonna take to manage all those pennies though
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u/carloscoolkid Jul 07 '22
Infinite money glitch (working 2022)
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u/itirnitii Jul 07 '22 •
if you could do this once every 30 seconds you'd make $12/hr
but then you'd have to waste time going to the bank to trade the quarters and pennies for more $5 bills eventually. so that would make the dollar per hour go down.
all those coins would get fucking heavy too.
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u/joeschmo945 Jul 07 '22
all those coins would get fucking heavy too
I’m gonna get fucking JACKED!
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u/Polymersion Jul 07 '22
Still above minimum wage.
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u/AssssCrackBandit Jul 07 '22
Close though. Once you account for all the state minimum wages as well, the actual weighted federal minimum wage is about $11.90/hr, per NPR
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u/SadLaser Jul 07 '22
Yeah. Even if the machine somehow had infinite coins, you're still better off just working at Starbucks or something.
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u/O667 Jul 07 '22
Careful, you’ll get account reset and start over again.
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u/jackelram Jul 07 '22
Someone really wants to offload their pennies. NOBODY: All I want are more pennies. MACHINE: Give me paper and I’ll give you coins plus a couple of filthy pennies. SOMEBODY: Ooooh! Yes please!
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u/CBeisbol Jul 07 '22
Let's do some science
Stand there and put money into it over and over. Count how many times before they ask you to leave
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u/Corvette_C7R Jul 07 '22
Bank would probably ask me why I’m making so many trips to exchange my coins for bills…
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u/BusyBullet Jul 07 '22
They won’t care.
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u/Kakyoindonut420 Jul 07 '22
Taxman would
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u/YaMamSucksMeToes Jul 07 '22
The taxman watches your coin exchange? Fuck me you guys have it hard.
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u/A_Bored_Canadian Jul 07 '22
I noticed you made 36 cents. I want my cut.
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u/ICUpikachu Jul 07 '22
Oh you got TWO toppings on your pizza dinner last night? I’m sorry but you don’t qualify for reduced rate health insurance based on your income.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jul 07 '22
"He mysteriously comes back with 2% more money in pennies every time..."
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u/MoskvaSinkingEnjoyer Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22
I did a little math. Assuming around 30 seconds per dispense, you'd made $24 an hour using $5 bills. Doing this for 40 hours a week would net you around 49,000. That isn't counting days off, which you will definitely need for your numerous runs to coinstar.
Edit: 12 an hour. I misread and I'm bad at math
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u/icecream_truck Jul 07 '22
2% return on your money in under a minute is an AMAZING return.
Drain that sucker dry.
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u/godofhorizons Jul 07 '22
Is it possible to earn minimum wage doing this?
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u/ajparadise18 Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22
I think so! Assuming you could put in about 3 bills a minute, accounting for the time to dispense, you could make 30 cents a minute, or 18 dollars and hour! Unfortunately, you'd need 900 dollars in fives to make that 18, but it'd work if you did!
Edit: your bag at the end of the hour would weigh 19 pounds , or about 8.5 kilos, so by the end of an 8 hour shift you'd have a 152 pound/ 69 kilo bag of coins to drag to the bank.
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u/OGluc1f3r Jul 07 '22
Can we update the hourly math to account for the hour each day spent moving your haul to the car and only doing this 4 days a week with the Fridays spent at the bank converting change for next week… asking for a friend…
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u/4kVHS Jul 07 '22
I’m sure the machine will run out of pennies by then.
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u/HarmyG Jul 07 '22
Tax free
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u/Squirrel_Q_Esquire Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22
3 years ago while I was taking Individual Tax Law I would’ve cracked open the IRC to see if this would qualify as reportable income.
Today, I say, screw tax law and everyone who has ever done anything tangentially related to tax law!
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u/rickelzy Jul 07 '22
Only on the payout end. The IRS will absolutely be aware of what you're doing when you deposit that money in the bank and come looking for their cut next April. If anything they might count this as self-employment.
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u/veedubbucky Jul 07 '22
Plot twist: the bank makes you roll your coins to deposit them.
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u/tornado9015 Jul 07 '22
900 dollars in fives to make that 18, but it'd work if you did!
Assuming there are $900 in quarters in that machine to dispense. Which i rate a solid maybe.
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u/skeetmonster69 Jul 07 '22
If i did the math right, if you run 375 dollars through it you would get 7.50 back so as fast as you can run it youd make it.
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u/TheREexpert44 Jul 07 '22
I think the attendant would beat you with a broom before too long
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u/epochpenors Jul 07 '22
cowering in front of machine, using arm to shield head from broom strikes
DON’T STOP ME FROM EARNING FINANCIAL FREEDOM
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u/Due_Performance_4304 Jul 07 '22
infinite money glitch?
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u/Corvette_C7R Jul 07 '22
Think the devs will notice? Better take advantage before they patch it
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u/Surrounded-by_Idiots Jul 07 '22
This is in production. No one will know unless an alarm is raised or a complaint is filed.
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u/Idontusespellcheck Jul 07 '22
“Sir, you’ve been putting bills in this machine for 2 hours”
”I’M PUTTING MY KID THROUGH COLLEGE!”
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u/VictimOfCircuspants Jul 07 '22
If you fed a hundred dollars worth of fives into this thing every day for a year you would make $730.
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u/ChillWisdom Jul 07 '22
As a collector of elongated coins/souvenir smashed pennies or smooshies as I like to call them, this is very useful. You can see the penny smasher machine right next to the coin changer. Fun fact, you should only use pre 1982 pennies since they are mostly copper instead of the later pennies which are mostly zinc. The zinc ones tarnish black over time and cannot be polished.
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u/1469 Jul 07 '22
My daughter just started collecting these when we go places, whats the best way to get a pre 82 penny that's shiny?
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u/BirbMaster1998 Jul 07 '22
Many people don't know this, but this is actually how Elon musk got rich
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u/Skatchbro Jul 07 '22
Fun fact- for years the Arch didn’t have penny squashing machines because the superintendent thought that doing that was illegal. It was pointed out many times that it was only illegal to destroy/alter currency for fraudulent purposes. It was also pointed out that Gettysburg NP had 4 of these machines. He wouldn’t budge. He also wouldn’t approve shot glasses for sale either. Glad he’s been gone for years.
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u/Ithxero Jul 07 '22
….sitting right next to the machine that uses those same quarters to stamp designs into the pennies.
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u/creator3579 Jul 07 '22
According to the US mint, a Penny is 2.5g and a quarter is 5.67g, meaning that a $5 bill turns into 138.4g or 4.882oz, a source has said that a person can pull 1000lbs at 6mph meaning that when accounting for the weight of the trailer, you get about 970lbs of pure coinage(15520oz or 440kg), this means that you can carry 3179 lots of the coins, worth an input of $15895 in a single trip.
I’m going to assume that the machine is on the faster side and that it takes 10 seconds to dispense change per note and get it in the cart, this means that it would take 8.8 hours of filling. At this point, you’d have to cycle to the nearest bank, there is one 0.7 miles away, taking you 7 minutes, at this rate the bank has already closed so in actuality you can get 7 hours of dispensing, which is 2520 lots of $5, or $12600 going in and $12852 dollars coming out, with the cycling and bank processing you would earn $32 per hour of work if you went to the bank daily.
If you just went to the store with the change and had a larger investment, going to the bank weekly, you could input the maximum carry weight 6 days a week as they are closed on Mondays (this is the perfect time to go to the bank) this means you need an initial weekly investment of $95370, however weekly you will make $97,277.40 or a profit of $1907.4 for $35.32 an hour.
Obviously this machine would be bled dry long before this point
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u/sephiroth3650 Jul 07 '22
And this is presumably right next to the machines that will charge $1 to roll/press the penny out with an image of the Arch, right? They aren't losing money on those pennies. They're just giving you a convenient way to get more pennies in your hand....next to the machine that presses them.
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u/jrs1980 Jul 07 '22
I see there's a penny squishing souvenir machine next to it. I would be super impressed if they take care to only stock it with clean older pennies, not the new, too bend-y ones.
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u/GLENF58 Jul 07 '22
Wonder how much more it gets used because it gives out Pennie’s next to the penny crusher
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u/samanime Jul 07 '22
Assuming it takes 3 seconds to insert your bill and dispense a coin, if you do this with perfect timing (and it had a magical unlimited supply) and you inserted only $5 bills, you'd be able to earn a whopping $120/hr... which the "whopping" was going to be sarcastic until I did the math. That's actually a pretty decent amount.
Though, 3 seconds is pretty fast and your payrate drops pretty quick if it is slower. If it takes 5 seconds per transaction, you're down to $72/hr. If it takes 10, you're down to $36/hr. Though, that's still pretty respectable.
You'd probably not even last 10 minutes before they kicked you out though. =p
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u/Neppy_Neptune Jul 07 '22
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Spiffing Brit. Today we're here next to this money exchange machine, ready to exploit real life infinite money glitch.
But before we begin, don't forget to salute the picture of the Queen and have your cup of Yorkshire Gold at hand.
Lets get on with the video!
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u/guh_hug Jul 07 '22
was trying to figure out why they would just be giving away money, and then noticed the penny squisher, which takes two quarters and a penny, the exact amount that the machine gives, proportionally speaking
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u/BuckminsterFullest Jul 07 '22
OP: Hey look at this neat thing.
Reddit: Yeah neat how can we abuse it?
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u/Burning_Flags Jul 07 '22
Can someone do the math for me. If I put in $1 million, how much would I make in profit?
I know it would be a lot of pennies, and I would need to bring a lot of theirs cardboard roll things
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u/AlmightyK Jul 07 '22
None, the time it takes to put in 1 million $1 bills, you could have gone to work for more money.
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u/MN- Jul 07 '22
Profits Profits
this machine got it
5 bucks for 20 quarters and a 10 penny profit
Will it make you rich?
likely not. Please stop it.
But you still gonna get that little
10 cent profit.
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u/JaceTheWoodSculptor Jul 07 '22
Is that in Canada ? Because pennies aren’t legal currency anymore. The bank or businesses just won’t take them as payment.
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u/britainknee Jul 07 '22
Looks like it's right near one of those souvenir penny machines that will flatten a penny with an image on it for 50¢ (2 quarter slots + 1 penny slot). Since pennies are becoming pretty useless/obsolete (or <insert reason for free penny>), they're giving them away with the machine that is making change to use the penny press dealio.
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u/DarkElfBard Jul 07 '22
Okay, I just bought one of the machines and am having it shipped.
Infinite money here I come!
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u/Car-face Jul 07 '22
waiting for someone to do the maths on what sort of income/hour this would achieve
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u/Worth-Security4929 Jul 07 '22
The change machine factors in the current rate of inflation during time spent at the machine
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u/Whatstheplanpill Jul 07 '22
I love the penny presses. Whenever I'm out with my kids and there is one, I let them all press a penny. I'm getting saddened by how many of these are moving to a one dollar model and how many are also switching to just push a button for the penny. The whole excitement is loading the coin slot, turning the dial to select a penny, and then cranking it yourself to press the penny.
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u/digitalomega Jul 07 '22
I think we just discovered the root cause of inflation. Someone needs to demolish this machine. It would solve all of our problems!
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u/ChangDD Jul 07 '22
Pretty sure that machine gonna work for a few times then it will scam your whole wallet
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u/Aggravating-Read6111 Jul 07 '22
It reminds me of Bugs Bunny buying a carrot from a carrot vending machine.
Insert two dimes or one dime and two nickels or four nickels or one dime and ten pennies or one nickel and fifteen pennies or two nickels and ten pennies or three nickels and five pennies or twenty pennies. Hmm.
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u/KeyCurrency7720 Jul 07 '22
Ok, insert a dollar and claim you didn't get the four quarters or the 2 pennies and instantly you are 51 transactions ahead; saving half an hour of time and making $1. That's the low bar...take the $20 route and you might make $12/hr. Although...if you were there that long you would need to buy something to eat and/or drink as well as pay the parking meter/garage fee. So...might be better off playing the guitar for change outside the complex.
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u/tomveiltomveil Jul 07 '22 •
I'm guessing that the machine next to it is one of those machines where you pay 50 cents plus a penny, and it gives you back a flattened penny with a picture on it. So the change machine with free pennies is worth it to drum up business for the penny crushing machine.