'You're stealing our money': Students get back at vending machine owner who refuses to fix his faulty yet extremely profitable machine

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Mar 12, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Every student has had a moment in which they were desperate for food and nothing is available other than one vending machine. If you're lucky, it has some edible sandwiches, if you are not that lucky, you have to settle with an overpriced can of Coke. But still, those vending machines are doing important work, and are helping countless students get through their semester slightly less hungry and sad.

The student in this Reddit story wasn't so thankful for the vending machine at his university. The reason for that, was because the vending machine kept stealing his change. Now again, every student knows the importance of even a couple of dollars, and having a vending machine steal your money is less than ideal. The student in the story tried contacting the owner and letting them know about the problem, but the owner couldn't care less. So the student, and a few others who fell victim to the machine's crimes, decided to take revenge. 

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    Vending machine stole my money, so I had my revenge.
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    In my university, there is a vanding machine selling sandwiches. One day, I bought one and the machine didn't return me all my change (Missing $2, where I live, we have loonies and twonies ($1
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    and $2 coins). The machine has a reputation and so does its owner. After 4 week, I didn't get my money back. I put signs on the machine "This Machine Dosen't Give All The Change
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    Back", I asked the secretary and the vice dean and they were tired of the machine and the people complaining so they allowed it. They are 3 other machines and they all have the
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    same problem. The owner of my machine took down my sign and everytime I put another one back. It is to be noted that I am extremelly cheap. After a month, I stop trying to be
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    refunded, however something happened. I had to use the machine for an emergency, and the machine stole $8. That was it for me so I decided to have my revenge. I am a numismat
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    (coin collector) and also a coin roll hunter. I like to go through thousands of dollars of change every month to find rare coins. The machine accepts nickels. You see where I am going with this? The next time I took a box
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    of nickels from the bank, I decided to pay the machine in nickels. I payed around $9 every meal in nickels. It's a long process, but it worth it. Many teacher and students were rooting for me because they
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    thought I could force the owner to fix the machine. I started bringing boxes of nickels at school and exchanging it for bills to students who wanted to do the same thing. Hopefully
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    the machine will be fixed soon, because the owner currently needs to carry hundreds of dollars of nickels every week. Clarification: Not many people used this machine and this side
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    cafeteria (only like 10 tables) so nobody waited for me to place the nickels. Many people tried to get the dean to force the owner to fix the machine, but because of strict contracts, his
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    hand are tied. The same strict contract forbids him from not taking coins so its a catch 22 for him and the dean.
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    Edit: Since Monday, I no longer put the nickels in, I stopped using the machine, however, some students are still asking me for nickels to exchange so I will continue to bring my boxes.
    via u/RoiDesChiffres
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    demonkidz 17 hr. ago When I was on the road as a stage hand for a band, if a vending machine took our money... we would pull it from the wall, unplug it
    via u/demonkidz
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    and cut the cord flush up to the machine, then put it against the wall again. Go ahead and rewire your thieving machine.
    via u/demonkidz
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    doingthehumptydance 17 hr. ago Just unplug it, that's what we did in my high school. We would unplug it the moment the refill guy left the lunchroom.
    via u/doingthehumptydance
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    jackoffalldays · 13 hr. ago could potentially be a harm. to others if the sandwiches need to be kept cold but someone plugs it back in
    via u/jackoffalldays
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    bigjsea 16 hr. ago • I worked in a shipyard and the sandwich machine messed up just 2 times,3rd day the front was smashed it of it and everything was gone in moments. Big burly men with hard hats and sledgehammers don't play.
    via u/bigjsea
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    LoraxVW 17 hr. ago People who have coin-op businesses own coin counter machines. I used to be the collector for a major newspaper that emptied the newsbox coins into bags and ran them through the
    via u/LoraxVW
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    counter. It sorted coins by value into different containers and gave an active count on value of each container as it ran. The vendor is just glad you're paying and not unplugging his machine.
    via u/LoraxVW
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    • maroongrad · 17 hr. ago He still has to carry all those nickels out :) I approve.
    via u/maroongrad
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    zack20cb 13 hr. ago ...but our hero has to carry them in. You're inconveniencing him. at most as much as you inconvenience yourself
    via u/zack20cb
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    wegame6699. 12 hr. ago With more people paying in nickels, it will fill the coin box faster and hurt the operators' profits. Either they will have to empty it more often or take the hit from the days the box is full.
    via u/wegame6699
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    lokis_construction · 17 hr. ago Better to put super glue on each nickel as you put it in the machine. It will stop working eventually and then the owner gets to put in a new coin acceptor. He would get very tired of it very quickly.
    via u/lokis_construction
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    cisco55 17 hr. ago • The school newspaper would love a story like this. The contract certainly should have a clause that covers this issue. If it it doesn't that's on the school.
    via u/cisco55
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    GhostOfKev 16 hr. ago This is very Canadian. The second time it robbed me I would have kicked the out of it
    via u/GhostOfKev

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