Customer Reviews

Emerson Digital Coin Bank

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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.

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.

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.

This jar definitely counts change, and is a reasonable price, but be prepared for your fingers to hurt if you have a lot of change to put in it at once (say, transferring from another jar). The mechanism that checks the value of the coins based on size is a manual trigger you push the coins past, one at a time. The larger the coin, the harder it is to push. I had about $50 worth of coins that I did in one sitting my my hand hurt by the time I was done.

You're going to want to look for a higher end coin bank if you would like to be able to take coins out and still keep an accurate tab. There's no way to tell it you removed money.

Of all the Christmas gift, this one was the best. I included for each of four grandchildren a bag of about $30 worth of coins. They put them in one by one, watched the counter, emptied the coin bank, and did it over and over. They loved their Emerson Digital Coin Banks!

The product worked great for the first dollar of nickels and dimes. Put a quarter in and then it would not recognize dimes and occasionally recognized nickels. -Something wrong with the sliding mechanism that counts the change. I'm taking back and going to try a different coin bank altogether. This was a gift, but in my research of coin banks I would get one that has more features; i.e. withdraw/deduction.

So, I went to Fred Meyer and purchased a Totes Talking Digital Coin Jar (the one I got is not available on amazon.com, but other Totes coin jars are) - a million times the digital coin jar as the Emerson Digital Coin Bank!

This is absolutely terrible. I never comment on these sites, but I can't resist after trying this product. It doesn't count correctly. Plain and simple. It consistently counts quarters as nickles. Terrible. Might as well buy a mason jar and keep a manual count.

I got this as an "extra" Christmas gift for my Dad and I'm glad I tried it out before I gave it to him because it insisted on counting pennies as dimes. I finally gave up and will return it. It was only $6 but it's a total waste of money and I'd rather have that $6 to spend on something else.

If you want something like this, spend more and get one that works.

I bought this product today at Fred's for $ 5.00 and it did not count some of the coins that I put in it. If i had read the reviews on this product I would not have wasted my money on it in the first place. However it is a great product if you love wasting money. Anyway, DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

I hadn't even got $5 counted and the spring stopped working for any coin except a quarter. You can move the spring back afer each coin with something like a toothpick or pen tip but that is a waste of time just as this bank was a waste of money! I wish companies would realize the concept that you buy something and you expect it to work. Emerson needs to spend a little more time on quality.