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An Ohio man who says he doesn't trust paper money has delivered enough coins to cover half the price of a brand new pickup truck.

Employees at a dealership in the Cincinnati suburb of Springdale say 70-year-old James Jones plunked down 16 coffee cans full of coins Tuesday for a new Chevrolet Silverado.

Salesman David Crisswell says employees spent 90 minutes counting the collection of dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollar coins, which covered half the $16,000 price of the pickup.

Jones and his wife, Betty, wrote a check for the other half of the cost.

Jones' son says his dad has always preferred to pay with coins. Dennis Jones says he's most amazed that his penny-pinching father decided to replace his 1981 pickup, which struck his father when its parking brake failed last year, putting him in a hospital.

http://www.sunherald.com/weird/story/745430.html

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totally not surprised... happens all the time at my walmart just not $8k obviously we would send them to the bank with that much... but bcz of scams... we dont accept rolled coins without counting every cent! :whistle:
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paid cash..... sweet!!!

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totally not surprised... happens all the time at my walmart just not $8k obviously we would send them to the bank with that much... but bcz of scams... we dont accept rolled coins without counting every cent! :whistle:

what's the most you've had someone pay for with change?

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totally not surprised... happens all the time at my walmart just not $8k obviously we would send them to the bank with that much... but bcz of scams... we dont accept rolled coins without counting every cent! :whistle:

what's the most you've had someone pay for with change?

well this week a customer paid $76+ with all coins... and yes the cashier had to count every cent bcz she chooses not to come to the cashier meetings or else she would know its better to get them to go to the bank at the front of walmart and let them deal with all those coins... she had to turn her light out and count every cent so she wouldnt get a write up from the drawer being over or short.

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totally not surprised... happens all the time at my walmart just not $8k obviously we would send them to the bank with that much... but bcz of scams... we dont accept rolled coins without counting every cent! :whistle:

what's the most you've had someone pay for with change?

My friends and I have an ongoing joke where we pass off change to the other. I owed my friend about $200 for a ticket. So as a joke I went to the bank and withdrew it in pennies. Unwrapped the bundle and poured them into a money bag. The bags were heavy.

Friends face, priceless..

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

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other than the coins tha i have in my car i don't have cash... so whenever i need to pay something that cannot be paid with debit or credit card I pay with coins... The most expansive thing that I have paid was dinner (lol) in a lil restaurant out of town!!! $35usd, I was so embarrased!!! :oops::blush::blush::blush::blush:

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totally not surprised... happens all the time at my walmart just not $8k obviously we would send them to the bank with that much... but bcz of scams... we dont accept rolled coins without counting every cent! :whistle:

what's the most you've had someone pay for with change?

well this week a customer paid $76+ with all coins... and yes the cashier had to count every cent bcz she chooses not to come to the cashier meetings or else she would know its better to get them to go to the bank at the front of walmart and let them deal with all those coins... she had to turn her light out and count every cent so she wouldnt get a write up from the drawer being over or short.

Gosh such great treatment from our friendly walmart stores. If they wrote me up for that petty a$$ thing, I would just at the meeting drop my pants, turn around and wipe my A$$ with that paper and hand it back to them, and then I would tell them to file that paper where the sun don't shine. :D

I get drag to walmart by my wife and I am not a big fan of WalMart.

Yogi

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