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1. You never said how much you paid for this if you own it and to make money you need to gain that back first 2. You haven’t said how much you had to put in the machine to even get peoples attention to play. 3. You haven’t added any of the maintenance cost. The most common parts to go out range from $50-$175 and then if you don’t know how to fix it your paying a repair person too. 4. How much more on your power bill does it add.
Makes a short to tell people how much money a coinpusher makes. Never says how much money a coinpusher makes. Now this is the quality I expect from shorts.
I think I'd be impressed with the 828ish dollars that he made if we knew how long the "collection period" actually was and what the monthly upkeep requirements are.
pro tip: If you're playing one of these, always hold your hand in the slot where the quarters fall down so you can catch them as they fall, because there's also a little slit in the side there where they can fall through if you're extra unlucky. I've also managed to see a few that got jammed there and dug them out with my nails. 👍
@@Ubdedman I didn't have any quarters with me at the time, but I pulled out the stuck ones and used them to win a few more. :3 (This was at a gas station where I used to work. Sometimes quarters would also just randomly fall out when nobody was even touching or near the machine.)
@@joonprint They used to have them at Seaside in boardwalk arcades...I haven't been in arcades in few years tho only go for the bars. They were always in the back area, maybe they took them out tho
I remember at a arcade [ 7 years ago, I was 13] when I put in 3 quarters , and a bunch came down, but then I saw that there were only five in the coin dispenser, so I put in my hand flipped it and folded my fingers to find that their was a small little bucktet on the upper part of the coin dispenser, so I started grabbing the quarters to the point I found a extremely folded bill. At the end , I counted everthing I had, 20 quarters ,a 50 dollar bill and a 2 dollar bill. I did this for almost a year with the 2 machines , I had a lot of money saved, 10s , 20s and 50s , up to 550$ left cause I did use some, I mean like I was a kid lol. They did take the machines away, because of the little secret bucket I found. It was fun while it lasted. I still have the 2 dollar bill tho 👍
Relevant side story; at my work I was going to give two young girls their change, and I was like "...have you ever seen a $2 bill before?" They were like "yeah we've heard of them" I've already got a few so I gave them the one in the drawer and they lost their minds
@@tavspop not a good way to make money playing them. Now if you wait you time and visit several machines watching and waiting until they are about to fall off you can potentially make money playing them but it takes a very long time and for every say $4-$5 that drops to win it takes about $10-$15 to get it ready to drop another $4-$5
This comment must be big brain time since the bills are put there by the owner to entice people to play it. Do you think people are just dropping quarters in to try to win a few more quarters? Lol
@@anacontreras9838 Me too! I was just about to leave the same comment! I thought, "Ew, is that a hair on my screen?" My hair is suuuuper long, so it wouldn't have been my hair! 😆
U drop coins in from the same spot, putting bills by the opening won’t effect where ur quarter goes but ur right about actual bills making people want to use the machine more
Also, lighter objects, placed on top of the coins, will follow the path of least resistance. When forcing the coins against a lip, they tend to spin, pushing off left or right into the "secret" opening. Meanwhile the big prize or a massive stack of coins looks to be teetering on a hairline. Vsauce had a video about stacking objects that can explain the idea; don't remember what it's called. Edit: The Leaning Tower of Lire.
In other words: “I like money!” Haha. But in all honesty, this would be fun to have as a coin collector just to see how many different coins you get. 👀😊
I never noticed the little chutes on the side sucking up a profit. I always assumed someone would just clean out some of the quarters from the playing field once a night or something.
Used to think that too. But when you think about it, that wouldn't work. People aren't going to put in quarters if it doesn't look like coins are about to fall.
I used to work at a bank. We had a client who owned several coin operated games. He brought them in pre counted and separated into bags of $500. We shipped them off to a separate facility where they were poured into a machine that verified the amount and put them in those paper rolls. It was all very simple. However, I did in fact hate this man, but it had nothing to do with the quarters. He was just an asshole.
Me as a kid at the arcade on my friend's birthday, no money; 'bumps' into machine, gets 60 cents, puts back in machine, gets €2.60, stonks enough for a milkshake.
I like how this guy is legit and is not one of those fake arcade videos where the machine is in there house and they fill it up to post it on Yt/tik tok. His voice is also very soothing.
@@lonestar1775 Where does he explain everything exactly? I went to his channel, and the vast majority of it is him showing his profits on his business' or little shorts that don't elaborate or offer useful advice at all. He literally has a comment on this video advertising for people to take his courses that cost $170+. His channel is the stereotypical rich guy who offers vague explanations and empty words of encouragement, and then tries to sell you courses for further profit. You can go around to other videos and see people criticize him for being a con man. I honestly hope you're not that gullible.
@@legoyoda9782 definitely. I fell into the whole of this guy's channel before. Spoiler, I'm not a millionaire. He basically explains nothing. Occasionally he'll drop 1 or 2 "tips" which are almost always some form or another of "work harder" but that's it.
Capitalists have no shame. Making money from the labor of others is what it's all about because with games like this, even if you win enough quarters to make a profit, your gains are made from the loss of others. Crooked games of chance should be ridiculed out of existence.
@@GUILLOTINE_GANG that's a broad statement. Without capitalism there is no competition. People should have more sense than to stop life changing amounts of money into a machine.
@@nibsbrooke5251 You say people should have more sense than to drop money into machines like this. Proffiting off of mentally disabled or ignorant people is nothing to be proud of, and should be called what it is. It's not ethical to create a rigged game that takes money from desperate idiots. Why do you feel the need to defend exploitation?
@@GUILLOTINE_GANG I'm not defending that but when will it end? The government will take that away, then it'll be another thing, then another, then another. And one of those things will something you enjoy and you'll say ENOUGH. I don't care about those machines. We live in reality. People need to be responsible and the disabled should get better care.
@@leftdirtyburgertoe1397 Yeah..sorry..I dont know what I was thinking...my bad and I apologize. You are right, plus, its hard enough to fold The Flag, so folding a bill is also pretty impressive.
“This is how you legally scam people into thinking they are making money” Edit: never had a popular comment before😂 2nd edit: yes I know you can make money my uncle put in 10$ the other day and got 25 it just depends on your luck Same as the lottery. 3rd edit: my comment is more popular than the creators😂 I love it
@@varioush but you didn't lose money. You exchanged it to play a game whose purpose is to give you a chance at winning more money. You still played the game, and didn't lose out on the service you paid for.
I remember a place I use to work at had one of them and a buddy of mine drilled a small hole in the plexiglass and when we would play, we would use a small wire hanger and scrape the quarters out. One day, I got caught lol.
@@elizza8770 I’m 30 and I didn’t know either. No need to feel superior this is not common knowledge 😉 I suppose people who know that are people who use those machines
So u think he can't answer that question unless he has 100% ownership? 🤔 Like 100% ownership = 100% knowledge? Like, (hypothetically) Automatically become less intelligent after selling off shares for retirement? "Ur no longer authorized to that information. UN-KNOW them, this instant!" 😉 Only In a perfect world☮
I gambled away my moms grocery money on this machine when I was 10. I was so shocked afterwards, I didn't gamble ever again in my life (16 years later). Made me realize how addiction works.
I think your Mum in the end is thankful, that you bought wisdom on her money (you realized that you never should play this games, or lottery etc). There are no free lunches in the cold mean world. Literally everything wants to destroy you in the world. Only wisdom can you manouver in your life. I think you recognized that. You will doing well..
@@panteleymonschekochikhin-k1978 what happen with you and smoking? did you spend your moms grocery money to buy cigarettes and then when you smoked it you realized it was garbage?
I had a similar experience, except that after having "put" in a quarter,and then, after having pulled back a poke (or so), the three slots each settling on a seven, i collected,w/o any further ado or athink, and said to mYselv' something alike to, "ríght, that's enough,I've had it w/gambling(!(?)), and then (when i was still a full time no vedge yet)went to a shoarma tent(pita bread w/ meat pieces,grilled,inside & w/ or w/o garlic sauce and the red(i can't recall the name)on them place)where i spent my winnings on a nice,fully fledged one; i.o.w. i was glad that i had attained the highest or best or whatever anyone of everyone (or, everybody) wanna call it aim or goal of the "gambling" thing,(yes, according to not only me but also to myself and I,and,yes, only pertaining to relatively small time,3 slots, slot machine gambling,except for mobile online,.)so that it efficiently excluded my self from a dull and fully automated enthusiastic, eventually would be having become, either a 2 slottin' spastic(n.p. intended), or else; mayhap a less than something-not.greets
@@armyjag4U haha I know right, maybe I need to get laid more or something cus when my moms watches a cute commercial and says something like "aww look at the cute x and y doing z" ill point out how one of the animals would kill one of the others or something of that nature
For anyone wondering how much money the quarters were but don’t feel like searching it’s 828 dollars just from the quarterstuanks Edit: Thanks for all the likes
They are for entertainment, not for making the person enjoying the entertainment rich. Someone going into a casino should never expect to win. I take 60 bucks and if I loose it I loose it. I just enjoy the company, drinks and playing. (I hate the cig smoke though)
@@user-xm3wd8tz6d Children don't think this way. If casinos have to be heavily regulated arcades should be even more regulated as they exploit the most vulnerable of our society
I had me a cushy job as vault teller and teller supervisor. That put me in charge of fed orders and ship outs, the change machine, access to count all other tellers drawers. It was heaven. I ordered in half dollars every week, sorted through for the silver, sent them back and did it again every month for over a year. On the evenings I worked close, another teller and I would "verify" the coin machine. That required looking through every bag. Unfortunately I was an eBay seller and sold most off it. Meh. I also collected and sold fancy number notes. Greatest profit came from a webpress. $1 brought in $110.
Why scammed? The holes on the side are so obvious. You just have to lower your a little bit. Like seriously, do people think, these machines are put there, for free?
@@FemkjeMW You two are braindead if you think this is about expecting free money. The idea of the "game" is that your quarter is going to help push the other quarters forward and you will eventually get some and maybe a dollar bill or other prize on top of it. But when these machines come with holes on the side to drastically and intentionally reduce the effectiveness of each quarter you put in, it turns from "game" to "scam" real quick. It means that dollar bill or prize sitting just inches from the edge will likely take many many dollars worth of quarters to get, and only after you've wasted so much on it already do you find this out. You two must be really stupid to not understand something as simple as that.
@@LeftvsReich but every body knows that al ready that's the whole point and why it's gambling and a game just like the game is just playing with your mind but many still do it Gambling isn't fair and never has been but nobody is telling or forcing you to do it you don't have to do anything I'm pretty sure everybody is being warned about it by their parents (I did i got clear earnings from not just my parents but anyone around when the subject droped everybody KNOWS the danger of these games it's just fun) did it a few times but not with crazy ammounts of money it was mostly just fun even if you knew you would never get anything crazy it was fun to watch the coins drop And it would just waste your money... But it's obviously going to rip you off that's why it's gambling but it is honestly your own fault for believing the impossible and wasting money nobody that nobody will ever force you to waste lol...
Machine: No shaking Me: Shakes the machine and gets 10 quarters to fall Lady: Yells at me and stares at me for the entire rest of the time I’m at the arcade Me: sweating profusely of stress
It took this random ass for me to realize that an arcade is the greatest scam of all time and I should start one immediately......i really put quarters in a machine to receive paper tickets that I spend on some thing worth pennies
Mine is refilled every 3 weeks and by refilled, I mean gamblers quarters. It depends on where you put them. For example..Like a library. Won't make that bucket ever. But find a gas station and you have people with change and let's face it. That machine is like heroin to the person that likes gambling
@@dickfitswell3437 i only ever see these coin machines in arcades or casinos never seen one on its own in a gas station or any place of business i usually see more the claw machine more than this one.
One time I shook one of these and I shook it successfully a few times until a bell or buzzer (I don’t really remember) went off. The coins didn’t come out and there was an older man and he was like “you’ve been shaking that?” And I just ran out of the gas station lol
There's a motion sensor attached to a trap door. If you shake the machine hard enough, the alarm sounds and trap door opens, diverting the coins into the bucket below the machine I owned 6 of them back in their heyday (06-08) before Texas had them shut down for being an illegal gambling machine. There was a loophole for a while where I put candy in the top door and claimed the candy was 25 cents but the game was free. Regardless they tightened up the laws and anything that gives money to the player is considered a gambling device. I had them in a chain of laundromats and made between $400-$600 every week per machine which I split with store owner. 70% for me and 30% to the store owner. The machines were about $1,100 new back then so I started with 1 and within a month or so I had 6. Made a killing for a while
My daughter did that just to show me theres a buzzer when i asked why dont people just shake all the coins forward. I didn't know she was gonna do it. Was a long afternoon in the laundromat being stared at with maliciousness by the attendant but a funny memory!
Except the banks make investments with your money and your money is insured if you lose up to a certain amount. So not really actually but I like the joke. Made me chuckle lol
Me either. I thought the drop rate was just low and owners opened it up to skim off the main tray every now and then. These things are freaking scams dude
Ofc there are holes like that. Do you except ppl feeding the machine for a whole day, with lots of coins falling in one direction as your profit? I would be better to wait until the end of the day then haha
If you’re going to gamble money on a game of chance, where the odds of you winning is against you, & then you lose? Be quiet about the loss. It’s a suckers game; unless you own it... (I’m from 4 generations born & raised in Vegas; it’s one of many “Vegas Sayings” we grew up with)😎
@@magicaly119 Translation: "Keep your mouth shut so people don't know you're an idiot and take advantage of you and ring you dry for every penny you got" If people know you're easy money they're gonna take advantage of it
