I have abandoned the paper dollar in favor of the new coin. It’s attractive & convenient, and I make it a point to get a roll of them every week for my pocket money. But I have had a few merchants look at me funny when I pull my hand out of my pocket revealing four, maybe five of them.
Wow! How may o’ those ya got there?, He or she will exclaim- acting as though I had just fished a half dozen Fabergé eggs from my pocket.
I hope the new coin doesn’t die- it’s the perfect solution to dollar bill reject disease that causes so many of us to kick & curse at vending machines.
Are there any merchants here who would care to report how they feel about dealing with the new dollar?
Wait until you get a $2 coin. Then you’ll complain.
Oh wait, there aren’t $2 bills in the States, are there? Oh poo.
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I for one have never seen, let alone touched, a new dollar coin. I have to ask: How many vending machines accept them? If dollar bill rejection is your concern, how often is this alleviated by the fact that no machines will take the coin? I hope the coin gets accepted, I think it’ll be the first step to eliminating that damn penny.
Sala, can’t you count?!? I said NO camels! That’s FIVE camels!
All the six of the vending machines in my building take them, as I suspect most machines made recently would. These machines aren’t new by the looks of them, but I think the coin mechanism can be modified to accept new sizes & denominations.
I would LOVE to be using the new coin. I want to see the one-dollar bill swiftly and suddenly vanish away. However, I have not seen ONE of the new bastards yet.
Are people really hoarding them? Are people THAT stupid? (wait, don’t answer that) Do I have to go to the hassle of a bank trip to get my hands on some?
I’ve got a couple of them, sent to my fiancee and I by her parents. They are sitting in our loose change dish on the bureau. I still haven’t run into any in the “real world” (circulating as real money should). I think it would be neat if they really caught on, but for all the advertising on the public transportation around here, I haven’t seen anyone use them.
I think they designed the new coin so that it would work in existing vending machines without making any adjustments to the machines. I have no idea how they did this…weight? size?
I haven’t seen one either, but I’m looking forward to using them. When we were in Australia, it was such a great feeling to reach into my pocket, thinking I had only change, and come up with twenty dollars!
As an experiment, I took some dollar coins to an area with a number of vending machines, to see how many would accept dollor coins. About half did. Then I tried one machine which just swallowed the coin, and then pretended that I hadn’t put anything in. Ouch. The experiment ended there–too expensive.
Around here, it seems like people are hoarding the sackie. The only one I’ve seen in circulation is the one I spent. I guess I’ll have to go to Wal-Mart and see if they’ll sell me a roll. I like the sackies.
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I don’t like the name. Sackie. Sounds dirty. I think it’s our feeble attempt to once again, rip off the cool parts of being a Canadian. Like hockey and Labats. But then again, we have to deal with the not-so-cool parts, like Celine Dion and the comedic stylings of Jim Carrey. Feh. Nevermind.
I love the name! Canada has the “loonie”, named because it has a loon on it; we have the “suzie”, named because it has Susan B. Anthony on it; now we have the sackie, named for Sacagawea!
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I agree about the lack of circulation- I seem to be the only person using them, so I have to go to the bank once every two weeks or so and get a couple of rolls just for spending money. They sit in a dish on my desk, looking golden & shiny like pieces of eight.
All of the machines that accept the coin here have a $1.00 sticker right by the coin slot, which I took to mean they accept them. I wouldn’t try it in machines that didn’t have such a sticker or didn’t otherwise say they would accept the new coin.
With the soda bottle growing to 20 oz. size & the cost swelling to 75¢ or $1, vending machine companies had better get on the ball and get their machines sackie ready!
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Hey Uke! I had a bunch of 'em in my pocket on Saturday night. If only you had asked… I get them out of Metrocard machines and NJ Transit ticket machines.
I love 'em too. As soon as I started using them, I started to get annoyed by wrinkly foldy dollar bills. Of course, the paper bill still dominate. It’s wierd, but everytime I get out a paper dollar to buy a paper or a cup of coffee, I get annoyed and wish I had a sackie.
A great place to get them is in postage machines. I bought 20 $.33 stamps with a $20 and got sackies back. I had a hell of a time spending them. I went across the street to buy some juice, and the merchant thought they were quarters at first.
Another down side is that all of those coins are heavy (the sackies in addition to quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies). I guess I prefer the dollar bill - it’s lightweight, foldable, and can be tucked in a bra with minimal discomfort.
I’ll have to try the postal machine approach. I went to a couple of banks and a post office, and both said they didn’t have the new coins. Every time it was suggested I try Walmart. Since when is Walmart an affiliate of the US Mint? And anyway there are no Walmarts near my house. :mad:
There were - I still have one. I believe Jefferson was on the front, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence was on the back. They died a quick and painful death, faster even than the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin (which the new Sackies are replacing).
Now, those 3-dollar bills, those are fairly queer…
Esprix, who is also madly in love with the new dollar coins and uses them often, and also gets a lot of “COOL!” type reactions
Walmart paid the mint for the right ot be the first to roll the coins out. Kellogg or General Mills also paid some bucks to include the new coin as a cereal box give away. They are now starting to enter general circulation.
