Opinion Taking coins from the coinstar, right or wrong?

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I’m in a Facebook group for a certain activity (not gonna name it) and one thing they mention often is checking the coinstar machine at grocery stores for rejected change people leave behind. Is this free for the taking or would it be considered stealing? Yes these people sound poor.
 
fordman7795 said:
I’m in a Facebook group for a certain activity (not gonna name it) and one thing they mention often is checking the coinstar machine at grocery stores for rejected change people leave behind. Is this free for the taking or would it be considered stealing? Yes these people sound poor.
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They already left the change in there and walked away, I doubt they're going back for it. I'd say it's fine. Not worth my time and I wouldn't suggest anyone go out of their way to do it though.
 
Dont forget to check the soda machine, underneath your car seats and in the couch cushions as well
 
Slick_36 said:
They already left the change in there and walked away, I doubt they're going back for it. I'd say it's fine. Not worth my time and I wouldn't suggest anyone go out of their way to do it though.
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Right, the people leaving it behind are unaware and/or don’t care. That’s not the point really. Is the change in the reject bin considered property of the coinstar machine or the grocery store and therefore considered stealing or is it like finding a dollar in the parking lot where it’s fair game.
 
Last time I grabbed what was in the rejected slot, I got a bunch of casino tokens and lint
 
wtf kind of kinky ass facebook group is this?
 
fordman7795 said:
Right, the people leaving it behind are unaware and/or don’t care. That’s not the point really. Is the change in the reject bin considered property of the coinstar machine or the grocery store and therefore considered stealing or is it like finding a dollar in the parking lot where it’s fair game.
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I imagine whoever uses it next is taking it, it's only their property if it gets left in there.
 
Slick_36 said:
Coinstar? The business? I don't know.
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I see. So person A comes in with 100 coins. Adds them into the machine but 5 are rejected. Person A is free to take the rejected coins back with them. But now person A walks away and leaves them behind. Can/should any person just be able to take them?
 
fordman7795 said:
I see. So person A comes in with 100 coins. Adds them into the machine but 5 are rejected. Person A is free to take the rejected coins back with them. But now person A walks away and leaves them behind. Can/should any person just be able to take them?
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I would say so, yeah. The problem would be if the machine was broken and you could keep getting coins rejected that were already put in. But if they didn't provide a service with that change, it's no different than change dropped on the sidewalk.
 
Man, if this is your ethical dilemma you're in a pretty good spot to navigate this perilous moral landscape we share. But on the other hand, you're poor.

Rarely does life give one man all of the blessings.
 
Fawlty said:
Man, if this is your ethical dilemma you're in a pretty good spot to navigate this perilous moral landscape we share. But on the other hand, you're poor.

Rarely does life give one man all of the blessings.
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Thank you for your response. I had never heard of people who specifically target these machines for free money and to me it sounds borderline ethical so I was wondering what others opinions are.
 
We can get to the bottom of this thread, guys. We just have an find an activity that is primarily attractive to poor people. OP won't actually tell us so we should just ignore him and speculate wildly!


I'm going to say LARPing.
 
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