Ok guys heres an easy way to hack one of these stupid things...

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Whenever I have a huge jar of change, I take it to a self-checkout and jam the machine with my change and then force some minimum wage scrub to give me back my money in big bills.

Most of the time any sort of weight-based item triggers the alert for the standby cashier, even if it doesn't show the signal on your end. It's supposed to prompt the cashier to just make sure that you are weighing what generally looks like the correct item.

Much easier to get away with if you're getting fancy apples and want them at the cheap apple price.

>>61685710
If you can reach behind the Coinstar and remove the ethernet cable while it's counting your coins it will let you waive the fee for a cash voucher if you choose the gift card option, because it can't register a gift card.

>>61685678
You should probably obfuscate the bar code on the steak, in case it accidentally scans and sets off alarms.

>>61685728

yeah because reaching behind a coinstar is def not noticeable

none of this shit is worth the money you're trying to save

>>61685761
What if you have hundreds of dollars in change?
That's like 20 bucks you're giving to the coinstar for no reason.

>>61685761
>none of this shit is worth the money you're trying to save

I mean, yeah, then really scanning in onions to save $X on steaks isn't really worth it if you get arrested for petty theft.

>>61685770

Bring it to a bank, they'll gladly exchange it for you if you tell them all the local coinstar services are down.

>>61685780

its just so much fucking hassle, anyone consider it would just be somebody young.. normal people don't have time for this shit, I go into a grocery to store to get what I need and get home as fast as possible.

I don't give a fuck about possibly saving even 20 dollars if it means not even getting arrested but just warned, its just a total waste of everyone's time

>>61685797
What banks do you go to that accept loose, unrolled coins for deposit, much less handing out to anybody on the street?

I think you might might be in the wrong thread for this sort of thing, dude.

Also, what the fuck is this thread even?

>>61685817

I've brought a 5 gallon bucket full of change from our office to a bank multiple times and they just take scoops of it and dump in their coin machine. Maybe they don't mind because I'm not a teenager and I don't smell or look like shit.

fucking retard stop posting

>>61685745
you could just pretend you are more retarded than the person managing those cash registers. The last one I saw was looking in two different directions and couldn't even see me unless he was looking clear off to the left. Although I suppose that could be used to his advantage to catch me...

>>61685817
>Banks are allowed to refuse your legal tender


AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks for letting us know you never leave the house

>>61685817
/dsg/ (dark skinned general)

there used to be a trick at krogers where an individual beer in a case of buddweiser would ring up as a six pack. they never noticed until a lot of people were doing it

When I was a teenager, I worked at a grocery store and did some shifts overlooking those self checkouts. I doubt I would've noticed this. People there hate their job, they're just counting down the minutes. Loss prevention dudes are wannabe cops though, so if they get involved you might genuinely get arrested. Not worth the risk, imo.

>>61685678
Yeah let me shoplift and face arrest and fine to save $20 on steaks. Genius!

>>61685678
Except I have a dot Indian woman hovering over my shoulder the whole time. Pretty sure she can tell the difference between chopped cow and onions.
>>61685710
I also get rid of chain in these things. Counting out change in front of human cashiers, guaranteed trigger for awkward penguin.

>>61685920
it's not really an awkward experience, it's just a waste of time
most cashiers are not used to counting large amounts of change, you might as well just hand it to them without counting it, because they have to count it again themselves, even a cent off means they get their hours cut.

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>having change
>2017
>not putting everything on a card to get free cash back AND convenience

>>61686039
Yet another brilliant contribution from an anime poster.

>>61685678

tyrone you better pay for that

>>61685678
I'll let you in on a secret
>Yes
>They are always really shitty made, often a lot of Pajets, eastern euros and outdated old farts
>Everything to save shekels
>The quality is quite frankly so bad it's embarrassing
>999/9999
>That is your standarized backdoor
t. former ST maker

>>61686039
>Having everything you do with money track for tenth of pennies

>>61686137
>le botnet maymay

>>61686148
I don't want a single company knowing everything about me from the things I purchase on my credit card.
It probably doesn't matter right now, but what happens in 20 years when this starts being used against you to detect thought crime?

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>>61686148
>Heh...I have nothing to hide anyways!!

>>61685678
Security watches through overhead cams.

>>61685854
Not him, but I've tried to deposit my jar of coins and they just hand you a bunch of paper coin rolls (for free) and tell you to fill them yourself

Took me a really long time, wasn't worth it. If I were to do it again, I'd just dump it all in a coinstar and get a little bit less cash back

>>61686169
and some underpaid potato stares at the screen all day and has no incentive to work. Just gotta do it when it's busy and there is someone else with you to talk to while you do it, so it looks like you just fucked up. Also actually have onions with you so you can write it off as an honest mistake

>>61685678
Walmart asset protection here. We have a hidden quota of stops we have to get each month. When I am behind I like to watch the self checks for easy stops. I catch customers doing this sort of thing all of the time and stop them outside the store. In my state this is called theft by deception and is not arrestable. You do get fined and have to go to court for a misdemeanor though.

>>61685854
This
He must live in sone fucking third world country if a bank refuses to exchange loose change for notes
Hell, the banks i go to accept exhange of damaged/ruined coins or notes, as long as the notes still have the number on them (the note number not value, ausfag currency)

>>61686220
A pro tip for Walmart shop lifters, the baggage area weight sensor does not know the weight of the items. You can scan one item and drop a few items at the exact same time and it will not set of the sensor. Still an easy stop for asset protection if they are watching that exact self check at the time.

>>61686157
>>61686158
>oh no, some bank knows what burger chain i eat at

ok kid

>>61686185
My local credit union has a Coinstar-like machine that counts your coins and prints out a receipt for you to either deposit or cash it out, and depositing is free for members.

It's really good for me, since I have a lot of coins I need to deposit every couple weeks from my vending machine business.

>>61686203
Maybe, if you're lucky. But is it really worth the risk to make that assumption?

>>61686157
>It probably doesn't matter right now, but what happens in 20 years when this starts being used against you to detect thought crime?

then people will just stop caring?
>you look at tranny porn haha!
>>so does 50% of the population!

suddenly it's not that big of a deal anymore

>>61686185
Only time I have been to a bank with a large amount of coins I was told they DO NOT want them pre-rolled because they can't count them easily that way.

I have EBT so I don't need to do this

>>61686220
In Canada this type of offence is fraud and is arrestable.

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>>61686185
>Not him, but I've tried to deposit my jar of coins and they just hand you a bunch of paper coin rolls (for free) and tell you to fill them yourself


Do Americans not have coin bags?
Just count out the right number on a table, and close the bag.


Then, they weigh the bags at the bank instead of counting them again.
I've had to handle over a thousand euro in change before, and it didn't take more than an hour to count and bag all of it.

Would have taken less than half an hour if I didn't count it before bagging it.

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>>61685678
>Buying overpriced frozen non-fresh food from super markets
Ayy lmao

>>61686250
Even better, if you slip something in your bag that could set off the alarm, as you are walking out the door spin the bag in a circle by flicking your wrist.

source: used to work 3rd shift and watched CSR take their keys out of the store this way.

>>61686295
nah, we just give our banks a pile of unsorted coins and their machine sorts it giving them a grand total for the cash.

I miss the coupon making threads that /b/ use to have

How easy is it to build a change counting machine?

>>61686266
Dude, it's not made public for everyone.
Just people who have incorrect opinions, and need to be made an example of.


>>you look at tranny porn haha!
>>>so does 50% of the population!

It's not what actually happened that gets you, it's how it's framed.
The tranny porn, and a certain pattern of behaviour (location data, maybe with a fake location added in near a school) is what you may see in child molesters. For the safety of everyone in your locale, it'd be better if you relocated some place else.

>>61686339
I remember those.

>>61686339

The Camel cigerattes ones were the shit, pack of smokes for like 15cents.

>>61686334
We have the same thing, but they usually make you wait if it's busy.

Also, you have to trust their machine if that's the case. (the same reason I've had to wait for someone to count €2980 in €50s and €20s by hand after running it through the machine

Holy fuck you guys are poor. I don't think I should be on this site any longer, for fear of your stink rubbing off on me.

what's the point? it's still stealing, you're just paying money to make yourself feel better about it. just skip the bullshit and walk straight out.

>>61686464
>2017
>not eating stolen steak

>>61685832
My bank got sued because some branches didn't return foreign coins from the coin machines, so the just got rid of them all.

>>61685678
been doing this for about 3 years, save £30-£40 a week on my groceries, always weighed everything as old potatoes though.

>>61686316
Dont tend to buy frozen or processed foods much so i cant comment on the price of those but for fresh fruit and veg, fish, meat etc the supermarket beats the local butcher/greengrocer.fishmonger on price every time.

>>61685721
No it doesn't. But it will take pics.

t. automation engineer

>>61686121
>999/9999
what did he mean by this?

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This is a nigger tier 'hack' and I have had steaks that I was legitimately purchasing at self-checkout double-checked by the attendant.

Once, on some $30 pack of steaks I was buying, they had those little chip things they put on electronics, on the fucking steak package! The attendant had to 'disarm' the devices, while I was in a state of shock. They said that people often will put the steak containers in a coat and just walk out.

tl;dr don't be a nigger.

I guess it's stealing since I always check my organic veggies/fruits as non-organic. Saves me some dosh.

>>61685678
from my experience the self checkout attendants dont give too many fucks, one time I was scanning stuff in a hurry and I didn't scan some cat food by accident, thought I heard a beep but it must have been a different checkout, anyways I just took the cat food off the scale when it said unexpected item please stop stealing and put it down on the ground and just kept going without thinking about it, no one noticed or said anything and I found out later that I didnt pay for it when I looked at the receipt wondering why I didn't spend as much money as I expected.
tl;dr if you wanna scam the self checkout just be ignorant and not nervous, if someone catches you just blame it on the dumb machine or say the scale was fucked up

>>61685817
If you make an attempt at rolling yourself, they'll do it for you or just take your word for it

>>61685817
Don't banks in the US have change machines? Most banks in australia have them now. You just dump in a bucket of coins and it prints out a receipt you then take to the cashier and she gives you notes in return.

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>>61685678
kill yourself

>>61685817
Life hacks general

>>61686295
>weighing currency
Isn't this the primary thing coinage was invented to prevent?

>>61686121
999/9999?

>>61685678
I used to do this sort of thing pretty regularly, mostly half by accident because the grocery store I used to go to was in a shitty location and half their machines were in that half-functioning "we can't close them because then we'd have to pay more cashiers" state, and I'm not going to spend an extra 5 minutes per shopping trip fighting with their shitty tills I wouldn't even use if they'd open enough real registers to keep the wait reasonable.
Whenever I scanned something and it didn't register, or the scale fucked up and wanted me to re-do something I'd just drop it next to it and move on to the next thing.
I only ever got stopped once, and I just did the "Yeah, I paid for it but the scale is broken or something and my bus is leaving in 2 minutes" thing. I don't think anyone particularly cares, their budgets all have an expected loss from this sort of thing built in, if they thought it was significant they'd get rid of them and go back to normal tills.

>>61687468
>Don't banks in the US have change machines?
Even at my bank in my little hick town in the Midwest, they do.

>>61687468
yes except maybe some real small ones in small towns. I've never been to a bank that didn't take your coin and give you cash for free.

>>61686420
Are you a drug dealer?

>>61685678
ENCOURAGING THEFT OF PHYSICAL ITEMS AND FROWNING UPON AD BLOCKERS. WHAT THE FUCK /G/?

>>61688267
fuck off walmart

>>61687105
>>61687663

that's the security code, retards.

>>61685911
>Loss prevention dudes are wannabe cops though
There was one of those at my local store that wanted to see my receipt because I had a backpack. They don't check purses though. Don't see what data a receipt would reveal if I had stolen something. They didn't have a guy at the side enterance so I avoided him that way till he was gone one day. Maybe he's a cop now.

>>61686339
Yeah those were the best