Thats... not the pin pad....

[Neo_Classic]

There's sooooooooooooo many things that could be said about that if only one little word was changed.

What word?

[Gurndigarn]

If you think card readers and the like are bad, try working coin-op. Some of the things you can find in a typical video game coin door:

quarters in a token location (insanely common)
tokens in a quarter location (more common than you think, despite none being sold at the location)
competitors wrong size tokens (common)
subway/other transportation tokens
astrological sex tokens
foreign coins (in the last few years: Mexico, Spain (pre-euro), Bahamas, UK, Europe, Brazil, Canada, Russia (I think), China (I think), Italy (pre-euro, only legal coin I've seen with a naked guy on it), Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Japan (I think), Belgium (I think), Belize, Turkey (blind guess; Middle Eastern is all I can tell for sure), whatever country Carl XVI Gustaf Sverige came from (Sweden?), someone else who uses Cyrillic and has a two-headed bird as an emblem, Caymon Isles, and whatever country Republika Hrvatska represents)
tickets
plastic knives
toothpicks
playing cards
schedules
paper clips
dollar coins jammed through the blockout plate on a quarter-only changer
play money
I even heard, but did not see myself, of a paper bill folded up and jammed in

The most ???? one I ever came across was a 1€ coin stuck in a quarter acceptor (French, if anyone cares). Aside from the sentimental value of keeping a souvenier of your trip, that's a lousy exchange rate.

You just want to say "THINK, PEOPLE!" Coin-op has been around since the Romans. You think that they haven't figured out how to stop most everything you can throw at them by now?

But that requires thinking, of course. Therefore....

[Becks]

Gurndigarn, got any to share? I LOVE non-US currency.

I keep it in a pretty box.

Am I weird? (Well, I KNOW I am, but you all know what I mean...)

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Gurndigarn, got any to share? I LOVE non-US currency.

I keep it in a pretty box.

Am I weird? (Well, I KNOW I am, but you all know what I mean...)

I do EXACTLY the same with non-canadian or special-issued canadian currency, pretty box and all!

[Arcade Man D]

If you think card readers and the like are bad, try working coin-op. Some of the things you can find in a typical video game coin door:
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dollar coins jammed through the blockout plate on a quarter-only changer
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Okay, the rest of your list didn't surprise me, but this one? What the purple monkey dishwasher?

Of course, it is only a few steps up from shoving tokens through three layers of electrical tape on coin slots. Then demanding a refund.

[Bloodsoul]

Oddly enough I'll happily collect foreign money but could care less about special edition American money.. I've got the usual set of nickles and steel penny (though I'm dubious about the authenticity), and a penny going back to 1919 (does beat a 190X that my mom has, though). Though I will often ask for $2 bills from the bank and then just spend them everywhere.

I can only remember personally having one mistake with a coin-op, putting in a Canadian quarter without realizing it. Thankfully 'twas a small arcade and the owner let me replace my lost with an American quarter. Yay! I needed my King of Fighters '98...

[Becks]

I do EXACTLY the same with non-canadian or special-issued canadian currency, pretty box and all!

Woo hoo. I'm not the only one!!!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay us!!!!

[Banrion]

For anyone curious, picture of the canadian bills at bottom of page :http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/bankno...r/2001-04.html

ETA: The picture is clicable. Click for enlarged images of bills.

[Geek King]

Okay, the rest of your list didn't surprise me, but this one? What the purple monkey dishwasher?

Of course, it is only a few steps up from shoving tokens through three layers of electrical tape on coin slots. Then demanding a refund.

That's okay, I had customers, from when I worked at a certain amusement park in southern Ohio, shove quarters through a bright "safety orange" sticker labled OUT OF ORDER. Fortunately, that was one of the few times we were allowed to refuse refunds.

[Purple Monkey Dishwasher]

Okay, the rest of your list didn't surprise me, but this one? What the purple monkey dishwasher?

You called?

Joe

[Jester]

And yet SOMEHOW these people manage to reproduce?

Because fucking is easy.

And it doesn't require nearly the thought process as some of the things these people attempt to do.

[Gurndigarn]

Gurndigarn, got any to share? I LOVE non-US currency.

I keep it in a pretty box.

Am I weird? (Well, I KNOW I am, but you all know what I mean...)

A few of the Indonesian and Mexican stuff I have duplicates of, and won't mind giving away. But I'm not shipping.

Okay, the rest of your list didn't surprise me, but this one? What the purple monkey dishwasher?

BC-3500, set to take quarters but not dollar coins. There's a blockout plate that drops down to make the opening only as big as a quarter. It's screwed into place. But the dollar coin is near a quarter in diameter, so it fits part way in. Obviously, if it fits part way in, it can fit all the way in, right? And the fact that a coin isn't going in means that you have to jam it in, because that will fix the problme, right?

By applying enough force in, the top of the coin applies force upwards on the blockout plate. Shoving it upward, no matter how tight I try to tighten the screws that hold it in place. On the plus side, they then lose their money, since the dollar coins jam the mech. On the down side, the machine won't take quarters any more, either. And it happens fairly regularly, especially now that they're doing the presidential series coins. I wanted to get a dual dollar/quarter mech, but that would screw up accounting.

Of course, it is only a few steps up from shoving tokens through three layers of electrical tape on coin slots. Then demanding a refund.

I can top that. Hard Drivin/Race Drivin. The first polygon driving games, from about 15 years ago. The sit down version had a seat that swung inside a black covering, so all you could see was the screen in front of you. Well, this one had a dead monitor, so there was nothing to see. Black electrical tape completely over the coin slot.

Yup. Kid gets in, swings the seat completely inside this pitch-black game, peels tape off the coin slots, then comes up and asks for a refund.

[Geek King]

I can top that. Hard Drivin/Race Drivin. The first polygon driving games, from about 15 years ago. The sit down version had a seat that swung inside a black covering, so all you could see was the screen in front of you. Well, this one had a dead monitor, so there was nothing to see. Black electrical tape completely over the coin slot.

Yup. Kid gets in, swings the seat completely inside this pitch-black game, peels tape off the coin slots, then comes up and asks for a refund.

I had that happen with Steel Talon (sit-down helcopter game...I think that was the name). Hard to believe people remember to breathe sometimes.

[Becks]

A few of the Indonesian and Mexican stuff I have duplicates of, and won't mind giving away. But I'm not shipping.

ROAD TRIP!!!!!!

[Gurndigarn]

A few of the Indonesian and Mexican stuff I have duplicates of, and won't mind giving away. But I'm not shipping.

ROAD TRIP!!!!!!

Ohio's the destination.