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To: Tor Van Dyke who wrote (108)	2/2/1998 6:36:00 PM
From: Richard G. Woodland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 351

I stopped by and used the coinstar machine just outside of Boston at Star market in Dorchester. It was easy to use and worked quite well. I do have one concern. I spoke with the kid about the machine he said it was very popular but it brea ks down all the time and the manager needs to fix it. These machines are all brand new. What are the break down rates going to be when these machines are 2 years old? Sounds like alot of moving parts in there. When I was a kid I worked in a game room so I learned to fix pinball and video games. We also had a coin counter machine which was very heavy duty but needed to be opened up to fix when coins got stuck which they did often. Not sure busy store managers are going to like opening up these machines unless they see a real benefit to the store. I'm long and like the stock but wanted to share what I have seen.

To: Tor Van Dyke who wrote (108)	2/2/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Mongo2116	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 351

The store in queens n.y. has two machines that are processing a total of 80,000.00 It is a big mystery for some reason as to what the stores get out of the 7.5%.