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This ingenious device electronically counts your coins as you save! The quality LCD displays a running total of all the coins deposited. Manufactured to a very high standard, the Counting Money Jar is strong and resilient. A great place for all that loose change or to save for something special. Keep it by the front door, laundry basket or washing machine. Counts all sterling coins.
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This ingenious device electronically counts your coins as you save! The quality LCD displays a running total of all the coins you deposit. A great place for all that loose change or to save for something special. This electronic money box is a child's dream come true. And especially in the current economic climate, it works equally well for adults. Encouraging saving and simultaneously registering the number of coins inserted into the box, it has a spectacularly luminescent and spacey feel for a very worthy and down-to-earth application. The product features a reset button and requires 2 x AA batteries (not included). Manufactured to a very high standard, the Counting Money Jar is strong and resilient. The money in the above picture is not included! Nobody will dare to "borrow" from your jar!
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60 of 64 people found the following review helpful
By simcritic
Before I got this I collected all my money in an old CD box, so when I wanted to know how much I had saved in here, I had to count every single coin and it used to take me ages to do it. Now I have a running total of all the coins in this jar and every time I put a new coin in it tells me the new total. The only thing with this jar is sometimes if you push a coin part way through and then take it out again it will still register a coin (I occasionally passed 10ps off as 5ps this way when I first put my big load of coins through). It even lets you adjust the amount when you take money out. Great fun for kids, and a good way for them to know how much money is in there.
80 of 87 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Mine couldn't count and kept switching off (even with 5 brand new sets of batteries)
15 Dec 2009
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Here's the coin counter in use.
I had high hopes for this both for use as a 'money box' for saving and for counting loose change for exchange at the bank. However, I found that mine seldom counted correctly - even in this video after resetting the counter to zero by the time I'd screwed the lid back onto the jar, it was registering 10p and then miscounted 2 coins.
I tested the counter with 5 different sets of brand new AA batteries. Maybe I was just unlucky in receiving a faulty product but I was disappointed both by the quality and the erratic, unreliable performance along with its inability to count accurately - which rather defeats its purpose!
I had high hopes for this both for use as a 'money box' for saving and for counting loose change for exchange at the bank. However, I found that mine seldom counted correctly - even in this video after resetting the counter to zero by the time I'd screwed the lid back onto the jar, it was registering 10p and then miscounted 2 coins.
I tested the counter with 5 different sets of brand new AA batteries. Maybe I was just unlucky in receiving a faulty product but I was disappointed both by the quality and the erratic, unreliable performance along with its inability to count accurately - which rather defeats its purpose!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Kismet
I wish I'd paid more attention to the other negative reviews. Maybe it is luck or bad luck that some people say its great & others say its poor. I bought 2 - one can count SOMETIMES while the other counts all 1ps as 20ps. So you are taking a chance buying this. A money box that can't count is just a piggy bank. Save your cash & use an old nescafe jar.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. LeeK
Amazon Verified Purchase
Brought it for my 18 month old as a saving pot with a difference, waste of time really, it counts ok most of the time but zero's itself ramdomly and has the ability to turn itself of which is most fustrating. Off to Morrisons for me to the money counter im affraid. Boo Hoo!!!!!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By K. Parks
Amazon Verified Purchase
I got this for a 6 year old, and she loves it. Nicely boxed, but comes without batteries, so I put the batteries in and taped one coin of each denomination on a piece of card to put inside. As you put the coin in the metal bar in the coin slot presumably 'knows' what size it is, and shows the current addition plus the running total of what should be in the jar. There's also a re-set button to start the balance from scratch, so as well as encouraging saving, I can also see that it would be a good (and educational!) game to get all the coins out and play with different combinations. Coins are easily removed by unscrewing the lid of the jar. Jar is plastic, not glass, so may scratch, but that's too early to tell yet. Perfect present for boys or girls.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By M. Chisholm
I was really pleased with with money jar when it arrived, Its plastic so there was no worry about smashing it, theres no need wondering how much you have saved so far or having to count it all the time as the display on top, counts the money as you put it in and keeps the total displayed aswell.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By A. Gaunt
As others have said this has great novelty appeal. Size and clarity of display also size of container is quite reasonable, but that's all that its got going for it.
As for counting, it seams to just make it up as it goes along. If you have more than a few coins at a time then it can become quite a chore to keep forcing them in.
Build quality was very very poor. The reset button dropped through top on the second time I used it.
This money jar got binned in less than a week.
Great idea but that's all I can say for it.
As for counting, it seams to just make it up as it goes along. If you have more than a few coins at a time then it can become quite a chore to keep forcing them in.
Build quality was very very poor. The reset button dropped through top on the second time I used it.
This money jar got binned in less than a week.
Great idea but that's all I can say for it.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By F E M
Amazon Verified Purchase
Durability:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This coin counting jar appeared to be a bit of fun and somewhere to put all the little bits of small change kicking about in pockets, bottom of bags and all over the house- it is- good fun to use (for adults, a teenager and early twenties) and surprising how much those unused and unloved little coins are amounting to- can recommend as a strangely satisfying and practical storage and tally jar.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
doesn't recognise correct monty
bought this for my son to built up some savings. He puts in £1 it says 20p, 20p = 1p etc... pain in the neck to get it to show right amount. waste of time. Read more
Published 11 hours ago by iesha
4.0 out of 5 stars
Simple & Easy
good way to see how much "loose change" you have, it does occasionally mis-identif the odd coin but nothing too serious. I use mine for pound coins only.... Read more
Published 2 days ago by Jason Garbutt
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun,Does what it says.
Bought this for our five year old to keep track of her pocket money. She thinks it is great as she can see the coins and the total on the digital display. Read more
Published 7 days ago by KCC&E
5.0 out of 5 stars
Digital coin jar review
Good service
Great present for a 6 yr old
Robust product
Would recommend for any child 6-10 yrs of age .
Great present for a 6 yr old
Robust product
Would recommend for any child 6-10 yrs of age .
Published 9 days ago by Natasha 1
1.0 out of 5 stars
Keeps cutting off
The machine keeps losing power so it does not keep a record of the total, it's just a piggy bank.
Published 17 days ago by Neil Murray
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lot better than counting it yourself.
There are many options available to people who wish to get rid of their change.
X Factor drop outs will sing for it on City streets. Read more
X Factor drop outs will sing for it on City streets. Read more
Published 1 month ago by MOANING_BARSTEWARD
1.0 out of 5 stars
MONEY JAR
it miscounts on bigger coins THE MONEY JAR IS ALSO HARD TO GET COINS THROUGH AS U NEED 2 FINGERS
TO PUSH THEM IN SO IF YOU WANT THIS PRODUCT PLEASE READ THE REVIEWS 1ST as it... Read more
TO PUSH THEM IN SO IF YOU WANT THIS PRODUCT PLEASE READ THE REVIEWS 1ST as it... Read more
Published 1 month ago by jennifer wiginton
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just the job
The jar itself is plastic so no chance of breaking into little pieces if it gets dropped. Batteries were not included but not thje end of the world.
Published 1 month ago by BK
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
Great product, good display and easy to set up and use just pop in a battery. good idea to help save!!
Published 1 month ago by Lindsey Phelps
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kids love it
Excellent service and no issues, arrived well within timeline given. Would highly recommend this site to anyone. Quality punctual service
Published 1 month ago by jonathan skirton
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