22 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Great Bank!
By julieMO
I got this for my son and it works exactly as i expected. I read a few reviews before purchasing and was a little hesitant but went with my gut… I am glad I did. It is very easy to use. I don’t see how your “fingers will hurt” it is very easy to push the coins in and it blinks for a few seconds so as long as you don’t try to push more coins through until it is done blinking it will count every coin inserted. Also i saw another review saying it did not have a reset button…. did you look? there is one right beside the spot for the batteries and also after you unplug the batteries it will save your amount on the screen for enough time to put in new batteries, so that is a plus too! Great bank for kids and adults. My son loves it and it is teaching him what money is worth and the benifits of saving money.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
a good nickel counter
By Chris B. Miller
got this for Christmas last year. neat idea except that it doesn’t count correctly. you press the coins thru a slot which measures the diameter of the coin. the concept is sound except that when you’re putting the coins in one after another it messes up. I’ve seen quarters go thru as dimes, pennies as dimes, dimes as pennies but it never….ever messes up on nickels.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
It’ll make you rich and poorer at the same time.
By Samuel Chell
Walk into a Sears store after Christmas and no doubt you’ll see a pile of discounted items (gadgets, mostly), including this “Emerson Coin Bank.” Even if (or perhaps, “especially if”) you like to save up your pennies, resist the urge to put out the 5-10 bucks for this highly erratic gadget. It does pretty well by recognizing various denominations–penny, nickel, quarter, half-dollar, silver dollar–providing you insert the coin just right (decisively, without the least hesitation) and leave sufficient time between coins for the counter to reset. The problem is that once it misses–and it inevitably will–there’s no way to adjust the counter to reflect the correct size of the coin that was entered, nor is there any way to adjust the total amount showing in the read-out display. (You may as well disregard the “instructions,” which are of no help whatsoever.) Your only option at this juncture is to remove the 2 AAA batteries and allow the cover to sit for 30 minutes (the amount of time, according to the instructions, required to erase the memory of the display) and then to start all over again.

But hold on! You’re still not out of the woods. During the first hour of trying to use this time-waster, I was able to get the counter back to zero as well as to receive correct readings of each individual coin entered. However, after each and every entry, the display simply refused to give me an indication of the accumulating total value of my collection. Instead, it unfailingly provided the same constant reading: “FULL.”

If you’d like to think your savings account is full when you’re down to your very last penny, then purchase this bank and dream on. If you’d like a bank that will motivate a child to save a few pennies while developing his or her arithmetical skills, you may wish to pass this one up. I’m told that “grade inflation” is an ever-present, increasing problem; even so, it’s nothing compared to this bank. It’s “FULL” all right, but discretion forbids me from saying of what.

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