You know…
If I invented a vending machine that accepted pennies (by which I mean, you could just dump the pennies in, not through a slot) and gave you soda or something, I’d make millions.
Millions of pennies anyway.
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No, I don’t think there’s any demand for such a thing.
Who likes pennies? Who keeps them around in the amount you’d need to buy a drink or candy bar?
No one, that’s who.
But that’s the POINT.
They accumulate. It’s a big bother to get rid of them.
If there’s a machine nearby that will eat them up quickly and give you a soda, then why not?
I have six jars of pennies at home.
I have a drawer here at the office with about 200 or so of them.
kind of like coin star without the nasty “we take part of your money for using our machine” thing huh??
Right!
It’s “we give you cavities in exchange for pennies”
then we spend money on dentists and they spend money and the economy grows and everybody gets well. you could start a revolution.
A million pennies is still $10,000. Not such a small chunk of change then.
No one!
Not small at all. About half the mass of a non armored humvee. Of course to buy the HMMWV you would need to bring in about three times its weight in pennies, which would take twelve HMMWVs to carry.