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(93 votes) Published: Dec 03, 2005 7:55 p.m. In 2 Favorites Lists Viewed 3958 times
Ok, I’ve seen several guides on this site to getting free change out of change machines. I have managed to rip off a change machine once, by pure luck.
My bro and our friend had moved into a crappy apartment in town, living in a two-room basement of some guy’s rental property. They had no telephone, so they made all their calls across the street at the pay phone outside the laundromat. I was spending the night in preparation for a trip we were making the next day when the friend had to make some calls.
I was waiting around, bored out of my goured when I spotted the laundromat’s old school change machine. It looked like it was manufactured in the 80’s at the very least. Unlike the basically unviersal looking ones of today, this one was quite different. Namely, instead of having those two black cylinders it uses to roll in your change that everything uses these days, this had a small piece you slid out, rested the dollar bill on and then shoved shut. I’m not sure exactly how it spotted the money and pulled the bill out, but it did.
With only one woman doing her laundry, I slid out a receipt I had gotten from the store earlier that day for a box of jello my friend and I bought to dump in a toilet at K-Mart.
I folded up the receipt a little, not bothering to even rip parts of it off. I finally got it to look close enough to the machine’s size and closed the lid on the piece and pushed it into the machine. Can you believe it? The old hunk of junk took it and spit out four quarters!
I bought my bro and myself each a soda outside, since he had noticed what I was doing and quietly stood as a lookout.
Unfortunately, my bro and friend moved out of the place shortly afterwards, so I never got around to checking the machine again. Still, if you run across any of the machines set up like these, grab some old receipts (make sure they’re cash) because it was relatively easy money.
Mar 30, 2006 8:58 pm - if it goes through a mechanical mecanism there shouldnt be a high chance of a clear enough finger print and they wont know how much has been taken out by the same pearson unless everything is checked