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Re:Why Germans pay cash for almost everything by nstho9834nhtnt on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:22PM (#14960084)
Are you serious? If you take it to the bank, they have change counting machines. Depending on how much you bring in, it takes about 1-5 minutes for the machine to count. In the US we have a company called CoinStar that has kiosks in every major grocery store chain which does the same thing. They take a small percentage, but we're talking about coins here, so it's probably less than a dollar per transaction.
Re:Why Germans pay cash for almost everything by comex on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:21PM (#14960873)
CoinStar’s fee is 11.9%, according to their website[1] - I wouldn’t call that small.

[1] http://www.coinstar.com/HelpCenter

Re:Why Germans pay cash for almost everything by mod on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:32PM (#14961002)
Not small by percentage, but the cost for the time saved is small. Might cost you $15 to save 2 hours or more.

Of course, just take it to the bank and they'll do it for you for free.

Re:Why Germans pay cash for almost everything by pmoriarty on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:20PM (#14960866)
I've taken change to banks that didn't have change counting machines. The tellers counted the change by hand. I was shocked.