Death to the 1 cent coin!

pd101

Does anyone else hate one cent coins. :mad:Everything is priced €1.99, €5.99 etc so your guaranteed to get one everytime you buy something. If you try and buy something using them you get dirty looks from the assistant behind the counter, but yet they don't hesitate in handing them out to you. There so small they fall out of your wallet. You try and give them to charity and it looks like your being cheap. I hate them.:mad::mad::mad:

So I propose banning them.

Who's with me.

Rob_l

Why is everyone picking on small change these days
its not the monies fault!

Xavi6

They did that over here so but now everything is $9.95 etc so you end up having the same problem with 5 cent pieces.

Third_Echelon

As far as I know, there are only a few of the EURO nations have them. A lot of them don't use it...

It is a real pain and it's pretty worthless....

Ban + 1

kaimera

Reminds me of that ep of the west wing in s03 iirc with the guy trying to stop production of the cent.

Meh, don't care either way since I stopped working in a pos position.

Cool_CM

I just keep every one that i get in my own one man attept to take them out of circulation, i guess one day ill get bored and offload them on some poor shop assistant

keen

I agree, ban them.

leninbenjamin

they were only supposed to be a temporary so prices wouldn't be rounded up in the changeover but the retailers apparently insisted on keeping their 99.99.99 speil. and our govt are a lazy shower of...

the Australian system is good. lowest coin is the 5 cent, but everything is still priced normally... just rounded up or down at the til.

i just randomly throw mine somewhere if i have them forced upon me.

Lawless_Samurai

Excellent plan Cool CM!!! :):D


Yeah they wreck my head too....... vote +2:D

Lawless_Samurai

leninbenjamin wrote: »

the Australian system is good. lowest coin is the 5 cent, but everything is still priced normally... just rounded up or down at the til.

They do that in Denmark too and it seems to work fine

auggie2k

I believe they already got rid of the poxy tiny 1, 2 and 5 cent coins in a few EU countries. I remember because a guy my dad knows was collecting every coin with every design from every country in the EU and he couldn't get it from like 3 countries - cos they don't exist - apparently.

leninbenjamin

Lawless_Samurai wrote: »

They do that in Denmark too and it seems to work fine

you know the retailers here though would refuse to round down, and our govt are such a spineless bunch that they'd never try to force it on them...

Creature

I don't mind the 1 or 2 cent coins because I just throw them into a coin jar which, when full, gets emptied out and the coins exchanged for notes . However, what I do hate is those till monkeys who say "can i just owe you the 2 cent?" or something like that instead of handing it over. No you can't ****ing "owe" it, gimme my damn change you ****ing spanner.

roadrunner41

Just think for second.

Think how rich you'd be with 100 1-cent coins!

Lawless_Samurai

You'd only be a euro rich and the dirty look you'd get bringing that into a shop to be changed!!!

Rob_l

Creature wrote: »

I don't mind the 1 or 2 cent coins because I just throw them into a coin jar which, when full, gets emptied out and the coins exchanged for notes . However, what I do hate is those till monkeys who say "can i just owe you the 2 cent?" or something like that instead of handing it over. No you can't ****ing "owe" it, gimme my damn change you ****ing spanner.

what :eek: :mad::mad:
Can I owe you?
I'd flip the till off the counter for that

Merrick

They're annoying, but not EXTREMELY annoying for me. I just keep them, gather them all up every now and then, and offload them onto a bank.

watna

I always think it'd be fun to convert your months salary in to 1c coins and then roll around in them and feel rich.

Apart from that, they have no use!

ScumLord

I like them! I save them up so I can have a day spending nothing but 1c coins. They love it when I do that, the best part is they remember you and always live in fear you'll do it again everytime you walk in.

The most abundant coin is the 20c. I very rarely get 1c coins.

Dinxminx

I HATE 1 and 2 cent coins. God. Bane of my life. They live in my many piggybanks and I never use them!!

biko

I just leave the shop before they can give them to me, or drop them in the cancer/blind/whatnot box on the counter

Lawless_Samurai

Hey cool sign by the way pd101.... You must really hate the 1c coin to go to that much trouble!!!! :):D

pd101

Lawless_Samurai wrote: »

Hey cool sign by the way pd101.... You must really hate the 1c coin to go to that much trouble!!!! :):D

Thanks I put alot of effort into it:D

bernard0368

Its more fun, when they ask can they owe you the one cent and you refuse. Causes panic with the person working the till. When they get it sorted then put the money in the poor box.

Jesus Wept

Get rid of the 2c pieces!

I started a thread like this a while ago, all the coins are too similar.
I don't pay for things with change, I lump it all in a jar and sort it out another day.

Here is the crux: the 2 cent coins are worse than the 1 cent coins.
The 2 cents are very similar size to the 5 cents.

Now if you only have a few in your hand, they are easier to decipher. But when there are 500 in a pile, the 2 cents and 5 cents are hard to tell apart quickly, unlike the 1 cents.

It's a much better plan to get rid of the 2cent pieces, because there will be no need for prices to be changed/another round of shopkeepers rounding prices up.
Getting rid of 2cent pieces is a more attainable goal, and a would make for a much smoother transition.

H.O.T.A.S.

IIRC It actually cost more than 2cents to produce a 2 cent coin

Mossy Monk

Can I owe you? Do shop people really say this?

Dinxminx

Can they not just ditch the 1s AND 2s??

A-Trak

Get rid of them? pffft

1c & 2c coins are for hoarding until you encounter an obnoxious barkeep.

Then simply order a large round, when asked to pay whack your pile o' copper on the bar.."Pick it out of that," before launching into the "It's all legal tender," speech when your asked to leave.

connundrum

We should march on thge Dail!!

GhostInTheRuins

The-Rigger wrote: »

Get rid of the 2c pieces!

I started a thread like this a while ago, all the coins are too similar.
I don't pay for things with change, I lump it all in a jar and sort it out another day.

Here is the crux: the 2 cent coins are worse than the 1 cent coins.
The 2 cents are very similar size to the 5 cents.

Now if you only have a few in your hand, they are easier to decipher. But when there are 500 in a pile, the 2 cents and 5 cents are hard to tell apart quickly, unlike the 1 cents.

It's a much better plan to get rid of the 2cent pieces, because there will be no need for prices to be changed/another round of shopkeepers rounding prices up.
Getting rid of 2cent pieces is a more attainable goal, and a would make for a much smoother transition.

You're actually right. Recently I was trying to sort of a drawer full of coins (Usually when I have change I just throw it in the drawer), and no matter how many times I thought I had all the 2c and 5c separated, there were always some of each getting mixed up. :mad:

Gegerty

I've had that, tell the shop you'll take a 5 cent if they don't have the correct change. Have to say they don't bother me. I'm one of those that takes ages counting out his change at the till during rush hour lotto madness :-)

Aren't they supposed to be bringing in Australian style plastic money? Maybe they'll adopt the whole Australian policy with 5 cent denominator and rounding down/up.

Call Me Jimmy

How much is a penny sweet these days? When I was a lad ye'd fish all the pennies out of your pocket and buy exactly that amount of sweets! T'was a simplar time I tell's ye!

irishfeller

Bronze coins are a pain - ye can't even use em in vendin machines or anythin,

I dump all my bronze coins in a jar then each few months bring em into a shop with one of these machines in it:
http://www.coinexpress.ie/customer_list.php

Ye get a receipt and then can buy stuff in the shop with it.

Its like gettin something for nothing!


Although wouldn't recommend it for other cios as the commission they take is too big - 10% or so. Good way of gettin rid of the crappy bronze coins tho.

Overheal

I use my pennies as projectiles. Why waste good paper?

MOH

Rob_l wrote: »

what :eek: :mad::mad:
Can I owe you?
I'd flip the till off the counter for that

Went to a shop near Connolly on the way home Sunday night to buy milk.
2.19 for a two liter, gave in 2.20, guy looked at it, put it in the till, closed it and handed me a receipt for 2.19.

Not that I'm going to go broke over a cent, but thought it was a bit cheeky.
Was tempted to demand my cent just to annoy him (was grumpy cos train was late).

Hester

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Can I owe you? Do shop people really say this?

Yeah, what a pile of crap! Like they're gonna give it to you next time you're in?

I used to work in a music shop where most things were (over)priced €X.99. Occasionally i'd run out of 1c coins so rather than saying something retarded like "Can I owe you?" I would alternate between giving a 2c coin or none at all. It would even out, so no annoying differences. I was quite sneaky about it. If somebody was buying something for say €19.99 and paid with a €20 note, they would get a 2c coin as they would be expecting change. But if someone was getting other coins in their change they would hardly notice or query a missing 1c. Genius. Yes, it was a quiet shop and I was vey bored.

Jesus Wept

Genius? Even someone with below average intelligence could tell you that you needed to stock more 1c coins in your till.

BoB the 7th

I don't c wot the big deal is... If u don't want them just gv them to the next homeless person u pass.

Jesus Wept

BoB the 7th wrote: »

I don't c wot the big deal is... If u don't want them just gv them to the next homeless person u pass.

Well done, you couldn't of misunderstood things any better.

The Chessplayer

You know the way when you have a rake of wretched coppers in your wallet and feel like fecking them away? I would actually feel scabby giving these coins to beggars, so worthless is the 1 cent coin that they'd probably throw them back in my face.

Just wondering would a beggar be insulted if I gave him a couple of 1 and 2 cent coins coming out of a shop. Are there any beggars on boards.ie that can shed a bit of light on this one?

Hester

The-Rigger wrote: »

Genius? Even someone with below average intelligence could tell you that you needed to stock more 1c coins in your till.

Yeah obviously, but unfortunately for me, the person who was in charge of getting coin for the shop didn't actually work on the till so didn't give a rat's ass if we ran out of 1c coins or anything else. It was a complete disaster at times but it didn't affect her so she wasn't bothered. :rolleyes:

Jesus Wept

Hester wrote: »

Yeah obviously, but unfortunately for me, the person who was in charge of getting coin for the shop didn't actually work on the till so didn't give a rat's ass if we ran out of 1c coins or anything else. It was a complete disaster at times but it didn't affect her so she wasn't bothered. :rolleyes:

tbh, it probably made your day pass quicker.

dame

A lot of shops have a little plastic collection box for some charity or other. If the 1c annoys you put it in the box. Funnily enough, most people keep all their 1c coins. Mine go in a big jar and get dumped into one of those coin counter machines every so often. You'd be surprised how much they can amount to.

Jesus Wept

You are right, I had years worth of them sitting in a jar. One day I counted them all up and there was €3.62. I bought a shiny new red bicycle.
Then I rode my shiny new red bicycle all the way to Hazelbrook Farm for a big bowl of icecream, and do you know what? It still tastes every bit as good today as it did then.

Terry

BoB the 7th wrote: »

I don't c wot the big deal is... If u don't want them just gv them to the next homeless person u pass.

I have no idea what you said there.

Please feel free to repost and take advantage of the generous 10,000 character limit and the qwerty keyboard in front of you.


I was broke one day, so I went to the shop with €7 in two cent coins for a packet of cigarettes. It was a pain in the hole carrying that much change, but I got my nicotene fix.

Like most people, I accumulated a pile of "shrapnel" over a few weeks. I went into Tesco's to buy some odds & sods and used the self service till, it was like playing the fruit machines in Vegas .

Appart from that they are a complete waste.

Ditch the 1 & 2 c coins, YES!

kmart6

Was watchnin something there last night on the US Treasury....for them to keep the coins in circulation there making money cause only costs them something like 0.8 or 0.08 to make! So you can see why they keep them...they've got a war to fund,lol!:rolleyes:

mikemac

Deleted User wrote: »

Like most people, I accumulated a pile of "shrapnel" over a few weeks. I went into Tesco's to buy some odds & sods and used the self service till, it was like playing the fruit machines in Vegas .

That's a lynching offense in my local Tesco.
It's a good idea but not if there are 20 people waiting for you to finish :mad:

micmclo

micmclo wrote: »

That's a lynching offense in my local Tesco.
It's a good idea but not if there are 20 people waiting for you to finish :mad:

I do it before the start of a day shift @07:10 I can choose which till to use

ashyle

I collect them in a big bottle! I'll be rich one of these days ya hear...then who'll be the loser