Death to the 1 cent coin!

cazzy

Yeah get rid of the 1 and 2 cent coins

dame

The toll on the M50 doesn't accept them, and they have people sitting there all day counting money!

eirebhoy

Xavi6 wrote: »

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.

The thing is though I can't remember ever actually handing a 1 cent coin to someone in a shop. I've regularly used the 5 cents.

Hester

dame wrote: »

The toll on the M50 doesn't accept them, and they have people sitting there all day counting money!

That sucks. Toll is an ideal place to get rid of the feckers.

Personally I try not to let them build up to any extent. Get rid of them here and there in shops to even out my change and avoid getting more. I try to offload a few on the buses and at the tesco self service tills.

eirebhoy

irishfeller wrote: »

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...

Is "bronze coins" the posh phrase for "coppers"?

msg11

They come in handy for me when buying petrol if you go over your target and get say 5.01 .. Suppose thats a use for them...

xOxSinéadxOx

death of the 1c coin; yes please.

Toto Wolfcastle

The shop a used to work in (a well known department store) priced everything at 1.98 of 2.99, etc, so we always needed 1 and 2 cent coins. We ran out nearly every day, and the company ended up losing thousands of euro (although an insignificant amount to such a large company.) They put signs up in the locker room telling us to make sure that we always had enough change, but they never had any to give us when we ran out. I used to give out 5 cent coins sometimes, or if I was giving back other coins I would just leave it out. (That was when the 5 cent coins were gone too!)

One day another person working with me ran out of 1 cent coins so decided to give the customer a 2 cent coin. The customer went mad, demanded a 1 cent coin, said he didn't want to be seen as stealing from the company. Fair enough, the shop should have provided the correct change, but the man got fairly angry over such a small thing.

Another time I handed over a 1 cent coin and the customer returned a minute later to ask me to exchange it for a 'proper' one. It seems the one I had given her had a speck of dirt on it.

I'd be all for getting rid of the 1 cent coin, but as someone else said, what would happen if you went over on your petrol by 1 cent? (Very easy to do.)

Then again, money is money so send all your 1 cent coins this way!

xOxSinéadxOx

msg11 wrote: »

They come in handy for me when buying petrol if you go over your target and get say 5.01 .. Suppose thats a use for them...

put a tiny bit more til you get to 5.02/5.05/5.10?

Toto Wolfcastle

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

put a tiny bit more til you get to 5.02/5.05/5.10?

You see I would never have thought of that. I'd have spent 5 minutes worrying about what the scary lady in the shop was going to say when I said I couldn't give her the 1 cent as it's no longer legal tender.

Actually, I think I might try that sometime.

xOxSinéadxOx

janeybabe26 wrote: »

You see I would never have thought of that. I'd have spent 5 minutes worrying about what the scary lady in the shop was going to say when I said I couldn't give her the 1 cent as it's no longer legal tender.

Actually, I think I might try that sometime.

but it still is legal tender, and why would you have 1 cent anyway if the were out of circulation. i suppose all in all they are a bit annoying but it would probably be a bit silly to get rid of them.

dame

If we got rid of them prices would most likely be rounded up rather than down.

Toto Wolfcastle

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

but it still is legal tender, and why would you have 1 cent anyway if the were out of circulation. i suppose all in all they are a bit annoying but it would probably be a bit silly to get rid of them.

Twas a joke.

pd101

msg11 wrote: »

They come in handy for me when buying petrol if you go over your target and get say 5.01 .. Suppose thats a use for them...

Theres an idea. Count up all your one cent coins and then go that much over next time you buy fuel.

Lawless_Samurai

dame wrote: »

If we got rid of them prices would most likely be rounded up rather than down.

Yeah just to spite us €4.99 will become €5.05 and then someone will start a thread on "Death to the 5 cent coins!"


Its a vicious circle that will never end!!!

jester77

Plastic ftw. I pay for everything with my debit/credit cards. None of this crap change putting a hole in your pocket! Nothing worse than being stuck behind some auld wan at the checkout and she waits till the last minute to go rooting for her purse and then proceeds to pay using every last copper she has, handing them over slowly one after the other :mad:

jester77

dame wrote: »

If we got rid of them prices would most likely be rounded up rather than down.

They would round them off to the nearest 5c. That's how it was done in Finland when I was living there. If all the groceries came to €39.57 you would pay €39.55, but if the groceries were €39.58 you would pay €39.60.

Red Alert

I guess the retailers would save a few sheckles in coin handling costs if they dropped the .99 pricing. Nobody really falls for it anymore.

squibs

Nothing worse than being stuck behind some auld wan at the checkout and she waits till the last minute to go rooting for her purse and then proceeds to pay using every last copper she has, handing them over slowly one after the other

Except maybe for some youngfella paying for his chewing gum with a credit card, rooting around in his tatty wallet to find the blasted thing, waving it around to demonstrate his social standing, waiting an age for him to remember and input his pin, a fortnight for the ancient card machine to dial home and verify, a further 6 weeks for the dot-matrix to spew out the shop receipt and customer receipt, a few days for our intrepid plastic bearer to audit the receipt closely ("you never know!") and then put in in his wallet with the card before moving on :mad:

Washout

superquinn has thee little cups at the till you can either put coppers in or take some it helps you pay exact amount...I use it both ways.

Lawless_Samurai

jester77 wrote: »

They would round them off to the nearest 5c. That's how it was done in Finland when I was living there. If all the groceries came to €39.57 you would pay €39.55, but if the groceries were €39.58 you would pay €39.60.

Yeah but this is Ireland and any where they can squeeze more money out of you they will... Guaranteed

UsedtobePC

I always save them for the journeys on the bus. The face on the drivers when you pay 50 cents in assorted coppers (the rest of the fare is on standard coins of course)

MOH

jester77 wrote: »

They would round them off to the nearest 5c. That's how it was done in Finland when I was living there. If all the groceries came to €39.57 you would pay €39.55, but if the groceries were €39.58 you would pay €39.60.

Same in Holland, and that was before the Euro came in.

coolhandc

the whole currency should be changed.in the old days when you had a pound coin you thought you were loaded.how far does fifty quid get you anymore?!doesnt get me very far anyway!

Turbulent Bill

UsedtobePC wrote: »

I always save them for the journeys on the bus. The face on the drivers when you pay 50 cents in assorted coppers (the rest of the fare is on standard coins of course)

This is the one and only use for small change. Stuffing as much crap in the coin slot is my way of saying "Don't be late next time". Plus, the machine doesn't count the money, so massive saving can be made by the savvy commuter...

The Chessplayer

I'll be heading out for a pint later, so I might ask one of the beggars on the ha'penny bridge his opinion on this whole 1 cent issue.

Said it before that I'd feel scabby giving a 1c coin to a beggar as he'd probably peg it back in my face, while shouting obscenities that would make a whore blush.

pd101

Turbulent Bill wrote: »

This is the one and only use for small change. Stuffing as much crap in the coin slot is my way of saying "Don't be late next time". Plus, the machine doesn't count the money, so massive saving can be made by the savvy commuter...

Probably late because of people paying with 1c and 2c coins:p

Mahatma coat

Daft notion altogether, this sort of thing might work in happy friendly less ripoffesque countries, actualy come to think of it I was in Sweden and Denmark Years ago and it annoyed the stones out of me then, and they even had the good sense to price everything to the nearest 5

over here it has become a stealth tax, shops price everything at $XX.X3c and then round up on every item, that is to say that if you buy 11 items all priced at 53 cent then your bill should be $5.83c rounded to $5.85c

however ( in some of the more scurrilous establishments) if you look closely at yer shoppin receipt you would see that the items get rounded individually instead ( ok most people dont buy 11 identical items by themselves so its generally not as obvious) so that yer bill is now $6.05c

see what happened there.

Another occasion I was in a servo, I'd filled both Tanks on the ute and the thingy on the pump said $106.81c so I paid with my EFTPOS card, and the little B&$+@rd rounded me up to .85c

its a card, how can a card not have exact change????


Full divisibility of a nations currency is essential, rounding drives inflation by stealth..

Rabies

That is one thing I love about living in this country. I carry little or no cash, everything can be done with the swipe of a card. Even for small transfers.

EFTPOS all the way
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debit_card#New_Zealand

There is no 1c, 2c or 5c coins. Rounding is used. Pay by card and it doesn't effect you. Pay by cash and sometimes you gain a few cent, sometimes you lose a few cent.

admiralofthefleet

i keep all the 1's and 2s in a jar and will probably get about €50 when i bring them all to the bank

admiralofthefleet

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i keep all the 1's and 2s in a jar and will probably get about €50 when i bring them all to the bank

In a wheelbarrow

coolhandc

yeh using plastic is a gud idea but many shops have an atm and if you are buying something for a fiver and give them your laser they ask you to take out cash from the machine.
i think it costs them money to take lasers.
they would save alot of money if they didnt have to be giving out lots of change.that stuffs expensive if your getting it all the time...
i thought that when the euro was being introduced they were going to round all the numbers in shops and all that,instead they just jacked the price up and tried to fool people...
so how do we go about changing this...do we set up a petition and send it to the government?lets do it

Red Alert

I turf them into the self scan unit in Superquinn every now and then.

ecoli

i work in a shop and there nothin i hate more than them poxy coppers the jus so irrelevant why would someone one make them in the first place make them so small like wat happened to the size of a 1p that would have made them slightly more tolerable

The Chessplayer

ecoli wrote: »

i work in a shop and there nothin i hate more than them poxy coppers the jus so irrelevant why would someone one make them in the first place make them so small like wat happened to the size of a 1p that would have made them slightly more tolerable

People look at you as if you've robbed a poor-box when you produce a bunch of coppers.

phasers

I throw them away


yes I'm THAT wealthy

pd101

Are they actually made from copper. If they are we could melt them down and make them into pipes or something useful.

davejones

Yes death to the 1 cent coin.
i think i have a phobia of them,i really don't like touching them-any copper coins in fact.

BoB the 7th

Terry wrote: »

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.

I see the PRICKS are still in charge...

Jesus Wept

BoB the 7th wrote: »

I see the PRICKS are still in charge...

Took you ages though.

Should of gone to Specsavers?

Lawless_Samurai

pd101 wrote: »

Are they actually made from copper. If they are we could melt them down and make them into pipes or something useful.

"1 cent euro coins are made of a steel core plated with copper. They have a diameter of 16.25 mm, a 1.67 mm thickness and a mass of 2.30 grams. All coins have a common reverse side and country-specific national sides."


Yes I was sad and bored enough to look this up

Wossack

I just hate the way they stink your hands up from handling them dont remember it being so bad with the punt

magick

NO !

im gonna go out on a limb here and say we should keep them for one purpose......... revenge!

now i had a crappy time at this one place it was a thai food place in waterford.

I was so outraged at the level of service and quality of food that i complained but the staff didnt really give a flying f*ck , so i got out the bag of vengence!

basically its a bag (in my backpack) full of 1 and 2c coins so so i payed my bill with those.

Not only was i happy but added satifaction that when i was walking out i could hear the coins spilling all over the floor as our dumb ass waitress was lifting the little checque book thingy from the table.

oh yes 1c and 2c have a use and that use is vengance!

roy123456789

Seemingly banning them would have an effect on inflation, particularly in Italy for some reason?
But I hate them, they aren't even worth the time it takes to count a 100 to lodge the ****ers

Wacker

ecoli wrote: »

i work in a shop and there nothin i hate more than them poxy coppers the jus so irrelevant why would someone one make them in the first place make them so small like wat happened to the size of a 1p that would have made them slightly more tolerable

But that would cost a lot more to produce. If we're stuck with the things, which I disagree with, at least it's better that they're small.

I worked in a newsagent for three years, and people who hoarded the things used to drive me mad. Give them to me! I need them. We had way overly small foats of change, so my trick was always to get as much change as possible of customers. I would literally pour all their change into my hands and count it out for them. I can do this freakishly quickly. I once ended up giving someone over €40 back. That was a win-win situation, as I was desperate for more change, and customers were desperate to be rid of it.
I'd never do that if there was a queue or if someone indicated that they were in a rush.

Change only really becomes a problem if you allow it to build up. Get rid of it as soon as you can and you'll be fine. At any given time I know approximately how much change I have in my wallet (I think I've got about €1.12 now, let me see *actually checks* okay, I had €1.83. Checking only took a moment though) but I'll get rid of most of that before the day is through.

thebman

Surely everyone throwing there's away or hoarding them in a press devalues the currency though?

Such a waste of space they are, I usually throw them in the bin or tell the person at the counter not to bother.

Kazobel

I think all copper money should be banned, I have a serious phobia about it and and my biggest pet hate is when people walk into a house and just empty their pockets on the nearest available surface, it freaks me out and I can't concentrate with it lying there so much so that my parents constantly leave it lying around in their living room so now I just won't go in when I'm there, I haven't seen the inside of the living room in about 6 years now. When I get it in change I usually throw it away or get my GF to take it out and then spend the day freaked about the smell of it on my hands until I get to wash them.

Ban all copper money I say! :mad:

GhostInTheRuins

Kazobel wrote: »

I think all copper money should be banned, I have a serious phobia about it and and my biggest pet hate is when people walk into a house and just empty their pockets on the nearest available surface, it freaks me out and I can't concentrate with it lying there so much so that my parents constantly leave it lying around in their living room so now I just won't go in when I'm there, I haven't seen the inside of the living room in about 6 years now. When I get it in change I usually throw it away or get my GF to take it out and then spend the day freaked about the smell of it on my hands until I get to wash them.

Ban all copper money I say! :mad:

I thought I was weird :eek:

Kazobel

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

I thought I was weird :eek:

I totally agree, it's head melting to be honest because it's something that most people do to a degree (everyone emptys their pockets once in a while) and no-one takes it seriously and do it just to wind me up. I've even ended friendships because of it.

Lawless_Samurai

phasers wrote: »

I throw them away


yes I'm THAT wealthy

I'm Not :(:(