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I don't live in a big city, but here in Dayton Ohio I've never seen a laundromat without a change machine. Further, those change machines don't skim off the top

by yock 12y ago

I don't live in a big city, but here in Dayton Ohio I've never seen a laundromat without a change machine. Further, those change machines don't skim off the top. The worst you're out is a $3 charge for an out-of-network ATM, and even that can be avoided with a minimal amount of forethought. Am I missing something that makes this make sense?

chatmasta 12y ago
All the off campus apartments at my college have laundry rooms with machines that only take quarters, but no change machines. Doing laundry, which is already a huge pain in the ass, was much worse for me because I also had to go to the bank and take out quarters.
- jsmthrowaway 12y ago
  > All the off campus apartments at my college have laundry rooms with machines that only take quarters, but no change machines. This is a bug. File appropriately. Laundry rooms are not operated without ongoing maintenance because communal equipment breaks all the time. Operating a quarter machine is part of said maintenance companies' repertoire.
  - chatmasta 12y ago
    Oh trust me... it's just one of many, many bugs. The laundry room at my previous apartment was operated by a heathen of a company called Mac Gray [0]. They have some of the worst customer service I've ever encountered, and never more than half of their machines working at any given time. [0] http://www.macgray.com/ http://www.macgray.com/
  - DanBC 12y ago
    Certainly someone needs to remove the quarters feom the washer dryers, so that person can also service the change machine?
  - fleitz 12y ago
    No kidding, take quarters from washer, put back in change machine, extract cash, take cash to bank. why wouldnt people have change machines?
dwd 12y ago
I'm in Australia and the order form seems like it will have no issue with me ordering quarters (it even does an Australian postcode lookup), yet US coins are not legal tender here.
- fleitz 12y ago
  So... I can order lots of things that aren't legal tender over the Internet? Why wouldn't they want to send you $20 in quarters for $27?
  - dwd 12y ago
    Couple of reasons: Coins are generally worthless once you take them out of their country of origin. Laundromats in Australia mostly accept 1 or 2 dollar coins. It would cost around $40 in air freight.

by yock 12y ago

chatmasta 12y ago

All the off campus apartments at my college have laundry rooms with machines that only take quarters, but no change machines. Doing laundry, which is already a huge pain in the ass, was much worse for me because I also had to go to the bank and take out quarters.

jsmthrowaway 12y ago
> All the off campus apartments at my college have laundry rooms with machines that only take quarters, but no change machines. This is a bug. File appropriately. Laundry rooms are not operated without ongoing maintenance because communal equipment breaks all the time. Operating a quarter machine is part of said maintenance companies' repertoire.
- chatmasta 12y ago
  Oh trust me... it's just one of many, many bugs. The laundry room at my previous apartment was operated by a heathen of a company called Mac Gray [0]. They have some of the worst customer service I've ever encountered, and never more than half of their machines working at any given time. [0] http://www.macgray.com/ http://www.macgray.com/
- DanBC 12y ago
  Certainly someone needs to remove the quarters feom the washer dryers, so that person can also service the change machine?
- fleitz 12y ago
  No kidding, take quarters from washer, put back in change machine, extract cash, take cash to bank. why wouldnt people have change machines?

dwd 12y ago

I'm in Australia and the order form seems like it will have no issue with me ordering quarters (it even does an Australian postcode lookup), yet US coins are not legal tender here.

fleitz 12y ago
So... I can order lots of things that aren't legal tender over the Internet? Why wouldn't they want to send you $20 in quarters for $27?
- dwd 12y ago
  Couple of reasons: Coins are generally worthless once you take them out of their country of origin. Laundromats in Australia mostly accept 1 or 2 dollar coins. It would cost around $40 in air freight.