What was your experience getting $1 coins at WDW

[munkgirl]

OMG! I thought the Blue Laws were dropped in the early 70s nationwide! I can't believe any area still has them.

Cash? People still use cash these days? I haven't used cash in years. Debit all the way.

I was like you once.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/413778/4_disadvantages_or_dangers_bank_debit.html?cat=3

Now it's credit or cash only.

 

[gerryu21220]

I was like you once.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/413778/4_disadvantages_or_dangers_bank_debit.html?cat=3

Now it's credit or cash only.

Right - I use the "credit" option as often as possible, mainly so that returns and refunds go right back on the account (otherwise stores give cash back instead), and also for the protection and dispute resolution if needed. Just didn't want to use the term "credit card" because it's not really a credit card. I don't use those either.

 

[Courtney1188]

I've seriously had cashiers argue with me about taking these. And when I sued to be a cashier, I would take them no problem, and my supervisor would hassle me about it at the end of my shift because she disliked them. So yeah, they can be a major headache,

 

[Courtney1188]

This could actually be a brilliant ploy for Disney, if they use it more widespread. Heck, it would be brilliant for America - stimulate the economy!

Cashiers give out $1 coins for change. Americans "don't like" the coins, have no where to store them except in pockets. They jangle and weigh down your pants. They know that when they go back home, cashiers will give them funny looks, so they find any excuse to spend the $1 coins...buying stuff!

So now, Disney just needs to ramp it up. Someone gives you a $20 for $3 worth of merch? $17 in coins!!!

Then Disney can take their cheapest stuff and put out $1, $2 item bins. People will scoop it up just to get rid of the coins. Move that cheapo merch right out of the stores!

:ROFLOL:

SHHH stop giving them ideas!!!! :fork:

:lol:

 

[Tiggerfanatic]

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I am from England, I find the bills (or 'notes' as we say in UK!) a refreshing change, although all US bills are too similar and I find the only way of telling them apart the the currency written in the corner, which means a lot of effort when handing over cash. In England all notes are different sizes and colours,so its easy to see what you have, we also have £1 coins and £2 coins. I enjoy using different currency when abroad, its part of the holiday.
One thing I can't get used to is the tax added on at the till. In England the price on the item your purchasing is what you pay, if it says £4.99 thats what you hand over. I get very nervous in a que in US as I'm never sure what I'm actually paying untill they say!

I just came back from a vacation in Belfast & Dublin (a rather extended vacation thanks to that silly volcano!), and I asked one of the store clerks why your "notes" were different sizes and colors. She said it made it easier to tell them apart after a night of drinking! We both had a bit of a chuckle about it.

 

[DABIGCHEEZ]

Come to NJ, some of the most confusing tax laws in the land.

Candy - taxed
Twix - not taxed (it's not candy, its a cookie bar)

Soda - Taxed
Hawaiian punch or iced tea - not taxed (soda has carbonation)

Bleach - Taxed
Laundry Detergent - not taxed (detergents is a cleanser, bleach is not a cleanser)

Oh, and in the County I live in, we have some of the last Sunday Blue Laws in the Country. You can buy food, but not clothes. You can buy liquor but not glassware to serve it in. You can buy nails and screws, but not the lumber to use them with. Bookstores are open for the selling of books, newspapers, and magazines - but they can't sell electronics such as an eBook reader.


As far as coins are concerned, It doesn't bother me. You shouldn't have more than 4 in your pocket at any one time anyway.


-dave

Another crazy fact about us here in NJ, Dave! I never liked that mall anyway LOL. But on topic... I love when I get the $1 coins for change as I do not have EZPASS in my company car and hate to wait at CASH tolls on GSP.

 

[Expo_Seeker40]

Today I was a passenger in a car going on one of Florida's many coast causeways. It was a dollar. We had no quarters no half dollars and no dollar coins. We had to wait in line and pull up to the teller and give a paper dollar bill. Unless one doesn't have a toll card, dollar coins are great for tolls and vending machines. I am all for getting rid of the dollar bill once and for all, but unless they start printing more $2 bills, I don't want to see myself walking around with Americanized loonie and toonies with only the $5 bill as the lowest paper bill.

Canada is switching to plastic, polymer bank notes next year. A few countries have already done this. Amazing stuff! The US would also save an estimated $600 mill a year by NOT printing the $1 bill and instead switching permanently to the $1 coin. This was why canada did this back in the 80s for similar reasons (not adjusted for inflation)

I also never had a problem back in the late 90s before they started colorizing out bills. So what if they were all green, I just looked for the number on them and memorized the president/founding father on them.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Unless one doesn't have a toll card, dollar coins are great for tolls and vending machines.

It was the vending industry that lobbied hard for the dollar coin's return, but they have not been very aggressive since then. Many places are allowed to choose their change options, and they opt to not carry dollar coins for another slot of quarters. The machine will take the coins, but that does nothing to help put them back into circulation.

 

[Tooning]

I Am Canadian and much prefer bills to Coins.

 

[Expo_Seeker40]

here's what the US paper currency looks like for foreigners who may not know what each denomination looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0d5E757Yc

 

[castlecake2.0]

In 2008 the GT for the Canada Pavilion gave us a few rolls of dollar coins in our change float for our food and wine kiosk, and some guests refused to take them in their change! I would explain they were a regular circulation $1 coin, and that I had no bills to give them instaed. SOme would finally take them, but go right to the next cashier beside me and ask if she could switch them out for bills. It became a game for me that day too guess which guest would cause issues when I tried to give it to them in their change...

 

[dave&di]

here's what the US paper currency looks like for foreigners who may not know what each denomination looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0d5E757Yc

I stopped watching when they got to the $50 & $100 bills, don't think I will be seeing many of those! Thanks for the vid.

 

[dave&di]

I just came back from a vacation in Belfast & Dublin (a rather extended vacation thanks to that silly volcano!), and I asked one of the store clerks why your "notes" were different sizes and colors. She said it made it easier to tell them apart after a night of drinking! We both had a bit of a chuckle about it.

I never thought about that , but very true!:ROFLOL:

 

[Wilt Dasney]

Oh, and in the County I live in, we have some of the last Sunday Blue Laws in the Country. You can buy food, but not clothes. You can buy liquor but not glassware to serve it in. You can buy nails and screws, but not the lumber to use them with. Bookstores are open for the selling of books, newspapers, and magazines - but they can't sell electronics such as an eBook reader.

I like the bolded one best. How random is that?! I thought the major aim of blue laws (one of them, anyway) was to restrict access to alcohol.

Here in GA, you can't buy alcohol anywhere except in restaurants on a Sunday — statewide. I got hit by that one once trying to buy a 6-pack just after midnight on Saturday at Wal-Mart. It's really a pretty ridiculous relic of a law; it's led to some tension between the more libertarian pro-business types and the more explicitly theocratic types who think it honors the Sabbath.