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Great Aussie swindle

martinw-48 — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:42:12 GMT

https://youtu.be/Wgb2WjFLYS8

Re: Great Aussie swindle

imastawka — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:02:35 GMT

Did you ask if they had any before you bought?

I would've....and if I didn't ask, and I didn't get one in my change, I'd be asking why not.

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martinw-48 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:13:26 GMT

Didn't think to ask first and I didn't say anything after
Maybe they don't have any left
It is Thursday so I've probably left it too late
I better try next Monday

Re: Great Aussie swindle

imastawka — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:33:43 GMT

You sound like my hubby.

Never complains to the right people.

Just moans about it later.

Ask first, if they don't have any, then it's not a swindle, and you keep ya money

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springyzone — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:35:29 GMT

It could be better run, that is for sure.

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domino-710 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:37:05 GMT

As it is the coin ' hunt ' - there is no guarantee a certain $1 coin will be in anyone's change.

Just the luck of the draw - they are likely scattered among heaps of $1 coins.

Re: Great Aussie swindle

martinw-48 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:42:42 GMT

domino, yes. I know it's luck of the draw but usually with a similar style of promotion they have a large number of the initial release to incentivise people to start collecting

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martinw-48 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:44:44 GMT

So I just checked at the Redan Post Office and asked first.
They have run out of them
He said have to be there Monday

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domino-710 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:45:36 GMT

Agree - but don't think they will search through the till for an individual.

Saw all the ' stuff ' for collecting them - storage etc - when down the street yesterday.

That's where the money will be made.

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domino-710 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:47:23 GMT

Going down the street later - will call in for a book of 20 x $1 - hand over $30 - and ask for my change in $1's. lol

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martinw-48 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:52:07 GMT

I'm going to have some stamps to give away
I'll give it another go on Monday but if I'm unsuccessful it's going to really decrease my desire to keep buying stamps to try and get one

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martinw-48 — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:53:21 GMT

I'd need at least half of them to buy the book

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k1ooo-slr-sales — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:30:59 GMT

I got some at Ivanhoe PO the other day. They had bags of them. The staff member even made sure I got three different letters in my change. I now have S, A and M.

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springyzone — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:35:41 GMT

@domino-710 wrote:
Agree - but don't think they will search through the till for an individual.

Saw all the ' stuff ' for collecting them - storage etc - when down the street yesterday.

That's where the money will be made.

I'd agree, and I would probably buy a storage case-if I knew that I had a decent chance of getting a coin with a transaction. Even if I ended up with the same coins, I'd have something to swap.

But not much use having a case if i might never get any coins.

Re: Great Aussie swindle

martinw-48 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:19:47 GMT

Next weeks coins are for sale on ebay
Not meant to be out until Monday