The button next to the coin slot

q-time · Post by **q-time** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:18 am

What is the purpose of the button next to the coin slot?

On Itboxes it is a thin thimbly type thing. On your Gamesnets it's more of a thumb-shaped protuberance. I always used to think it was to get the coin out - but having experimented with this as the hypothesis, it was refuted.

It sounds like a good stinker question on DOND:

"What is the purpose of the button next to the coin slot on a quiz machine?"

Your ABC options, please.

QT

Ernest W. Quality · Post by **Ernest W. Quality** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 1:23 am

Aren't these "coin refund" buttons, like on a vending machine, but are redundant because the mechanism doesn't allow refunds anyway, since the money is either accepted or rejected

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quizard · Post by **quizard** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:23 pm

I thought they were soley psychological to relieve frustration when machine won't accept the coins. Press it a few times and doesn't make the slightest difference

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:57 pm

Played one today where having bought a full pint already, wandered over to the paragon, put £1 in and got the SWP players equivalent of "dead man's click". ie the telltale sound of the coin lodging somewhere near the top of the cash oesophagus. Anyway tried the button which whilst initially unyielding, suddenly just disgorged my £1 and all the others that had been building up behind the blockage. £3.50 up before I started

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:10 pm

Go pro on the coin refund button-pushing circuit?

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:21 pm

Bob given the time value of money I might just have to- it took me another 30mins to edge £3 ahead on Trivial Pursuit.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:08 pm

My biggest ever 'win' that wasn't from either a quiz machine or the occasional dabble into the murky AWP world was from the Durex machine in the Gents at a pub where I used to work as a student. There was a £1 coin in the rejected coin slot and for some reason I thought I'd see by pressing the Coin Reject button if there were any more waiting to come out and, lo and behold, 10 or 11 followed the first one. This was the mid 80s so that was the equivalent of a Jackpot on one of the quiz machines

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I figured that there was a fault with the machine and people had been too embarrassed to complain at a crowded bar - the place was always busy and the Durex machines were a relatively new phenomenon then. I suspect the 'youth of today' would have far fewer qualms...

Signed,

The Grumpy Old Man!

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:06 am

i had a good win on a ticket machine owned by Southampton City Council.
My one pound failed to register or come out so I beat the machine senseless in a Basil Fawlty type rant and around £5 dropped out. I also had a non payout in a pub where the kindly publican told me how to get the machine to give me the money (unbeknown to him an additional £30 dropped out)

DildoDez · Post by **DildoDez** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:42 am

RE: Coin refund buttons.

My biggest 'win' of this sort was £18 and 3 packets of condoms from a condom machine! Noticed the slot was jammed up, so gave it a right whack! Sore knuckles, and a small dent in the machine, but i emptied the coin jam! Guess people were just too embarrassed to complain!!!