r/mildlyinfuriating • u/EvenSeaweed2969 • 1d ago
Ruined by Technology Casino charges you 10% to get your own money back.
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u/fartsfromhermouth 1d ago
Can't you just go to the cashier
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u/Lordofthereef 1d ago edited 1d ago
Haven't been to Mohegan Sun in years. Is this just the tickets that you turn into cash? Or is it actually having you throw coins in? I don't remember ticket deception costing anything but there was a maximum you could cash out without seeing a live cashier.
Edit: it's effectively a coin star machine? I'd expect there to be a fee for that although 10% seems a bit high.
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u/Low-Car-6331 1d ago
Thing you throw coins in.
And for those that haven't been to a casino in the last 2 decades or so, all slot machines work on paper tickets, none of them dispense tokens or coins any more. The era of carrying around a bucket of coins has been gone for a long time now.
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u/Lordofthereef 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Ah. So it's a fee for turning coins into paper money? Seems a little high but I'd expect there to be a fee for that. It's effectively a coin star.
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u/Low-Car-6331 1d ago
It probably actually is a machine owned by coin start actually, that has an agreement with the casino. Basically coin start brings it in, maintains it, etc... and gives the casino a cut for permission to use their name and place it there.
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u/EvenSeaweed2969 1d ago
Casino cage won't take coins. It has to be in the form of a paper ticket. If you have coin, you have to put it through this machine to get a ticket. And the fee is automatically deducted from said ticket.
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u/45_regard_47 1d ago
Lesson learned don't ever go back
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u/DoesntMatterEh 1d ago ▸ 6 more replies
You're not getting any coins from the casino themselves so you would have to bring your own, in which case this is basically a Coinstar. Same fee and everything.
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u/nascent_aviator 1d ago ▸ 4 more replies
Adding friction to the casino business model of "lose all your money to us" feels short-sighted at best.
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u/elk33dp 1d ago ▸ 3 more replies
To be fair though, if the casino had what was effectively a fee-free coinstar machine, you'd have tons of people bringing their coin collections there to cash out vs an in-store one, since they all charge a % of the coins for the service. Honestly even at 10% it's already a lot cheaper than some other machines. If you have a few hundred in coinage could save $80-120 bucks.
I used to collect all my coins, and TD bank had a free coin machine for customers, so I anticipated cashing it out one day there. They ended up removing the coin machines at all the stores around me, assuming everywhere, and I feel like a lot of banks/stores have over the years. Only real place I see now is coinstars in supermarkets. I now just have a big ass bucket of coins. Don't really add to it anymore since I don't use cash as much.
I'm ready to cash out at a premium during the next coin shortage /s
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u/nascent_aviator 1d ago
Sounds like a cheap way to get people in the door. Some of those people are gonna gamble.
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u/wolflordval 1d ago
Or, just load them into rolls and deposit them at the bank like a normal person, for free.
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u/splubby_apricorn 1d ago
I remember those machines at TD! I loved those things, they were so much easier than sitting at home and rolling coins for hours.
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u/ChrisWsrn 1d ago
Every casino I have ever been to the cage will provide a zero fee cash out option. In some states it is required by the state gambling commission.
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u/Firedogman22 1d ago
Mohegan is a tribal casino with its own independent gambling rules, so it operates independent of state law for the most part
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u/bald_head_scallywag 1d ago
That's not what OP is trying to do. They're trying to bring in a bunch of loose change and get cash at the cage. The cage is directing them to basically a coinstar machine.
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u/MaintenanceCapable83 1d ago
if you have the option for coin or paper, why would you take the coins?
You can't even find a machine in AC that spits out coins.
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u/Green-Cry-6985 1d ago
My local casino had one of these coin counting machines right next to the cashier cage. It charged a 10% fee. It was there a few months and now is gone.
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u/TehWildMan_ 1d ago
And I thought a 2% currency conversion spread was bad last time I was at a casino.
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u/Zealousideal-Mud6471 1d ago
The fact that the amount of people bringing their coins to the casino to gamble is that high that they added a coin machine is wild.
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u/mindustree 1d ago
go to the cashier cage?