When I first read this news story I almost burst out laughing. Then I was impressed that the car showroom guys actually spent time to count $8,000 worth of coins (took them an hour). But before I could feel sorry for the car showroom guys, I remembered how car salesmen make life so miserable for so many people by their aggressive sales techniques, hassle and general* do-numbris*. So then I just wanted to salute this guy, for making the car salesman miserable - even if its just for one hour! :hehe: You go, dude! :k:
BBC NEWS | Americas | Man buys Chevy with small change
An Ohio man with a hatred of paper money slapped down $8,000 in coins at a car dealership to buy a Chevrolet pick-up - then paid the rest by cheque.
James Jones, 70, produced 16 coffee cans full of coins to buy his new Chevrolet Silverado in Cincinnati and staff spent 90 minutes counting it.
But his coin hoard only covered half of the $16,000 (£8,500) price tag.
According to the paper, James Jones walked into the Jake Sweeney dealership, plunked down his cans and said: “I want that Chevy truck.”
"In my 19 years in this business I have never seen anything like this,” said Biff Arnold, finance manger for Jake Sweeney.
“I have seen many buyers come in with a lot of cash money, but never this much money in coins.”
Salesman David Crisswell said the coins included “dimes, quarters, half-dollars, silver and Susan B Anthony dollars”.
The new owner of the Chevy says he does not trust banks or paper money.
“Paper money will burn, but it is hard to damage coins," the retired engineer pointed out.
"I bought four or five rolls of coins each month. I don’t know how long it took me to save this amount, probably all my life.”