Customer Reviews

Learning Resources Teaching Cash Register

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My daughter got this for her birthday (3 years old). Even though she is not old enough yet to really count the money she has had a blast "ringing things up" on the scanner and paying with the credit card. She also really likes the coin slot. When she puts the money in it tells her what the coin was. She has done this over and over again. She is also having fun going around the house collecting items in her shopping cart and then ringing them up.

I can see this being a toy she will play with for many years. It has math games that seem like they will be fun and educational. Very nice, oh, and my dad observed that the coin slot works with real coins too!

The negatives... The drawer shoots out quickly and the plastic coins tend to slosh out. Also the weighing tray comes off easily. I'm going to put that away till my daughter gets a little older.

Overall- a great toy!

I got this cash register for my daughter when she started learning about money at school. She is 8 now and still loves playing "store" with her 5 yr. old brother. We've had it well over a year and haven't even had to replace batteries yet. It is durable and fun. The electronic voice is very easy to understand and all the buttons function as they should. I highly recommend this toy.

Bought this for my 5 year old. Both he and my 7 year old have enjoyed playing with it. They especially like the silly things it does, like sometimes telling them their credit card has been declined, etc. Seems well constructed and has some good learning games, too.

Unfortunately, I wasted a little bit (or more) of money this holiday season. I'm glad to say that this particular toy was absolutely NOT a waste. I had the older model for my older kids, but got rid of that one when they outgrew it. Remembering how much they enjoyed playing with it (we even used it for our garage sale), I bought this one for my youngest daughter, who is four.

This is an excellent cash register! It comes with a lot of play money and provides hours of learning fun. Really, my daughter just loves playing store, scanning items, using her "Kroger Card" and the credit card. She enjoys hearing the machine say "Credit Approved" (or declined!), and she loves putting the coins in the coin slot and having the register recognize which coin it was.

This cash register has many more features than the older one (which I truly liked), and that adds to the play value, I suppose, especially for a younger child. There are some simple math games on this one, too, but the games are really geared to kids just a bit older than 4.

However, my daughter has only had this for 2 days and she has already started to grasp some money concepts that she didn't have before. We've gone over coin values and she's undertanding that the paper money has different values, as well-- although we really haven't begun to go over that. And, interestingly enough, she's asked about some of the figures on the bills and the coins. She's especially interested in Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.

This is a great toy. And, as I mentioned before, it really does work as a cash register, as well. So, you can use it for simple sales such as garage sales, lemonade stands, etc.

This toy only comes w/coins and paper bills - nothing to scan w/the scanner, and nothing to weigh on the scale. I went to the company's website to see if a separate purchase was required, and nothing was listed. The directions were no help - they seem to imply that the items to scan come w/the unit. To top it off, the toy wouldn't respond to the buttons pressed. The instructions say to press the reset button when the unit acts up, which was strangely not installed anywhere on this toy. After fiddling w/it for awhile, we got the math games to work, but inconsistently, and the toy leaves no room for open ended, imaginative play if a child can't use the scanner or scale. The kids got bored really quickly w/just the number identification and math games. We were really looking for a toy w/more creative options.

My child loves to play with the toy at a friend's house. Unfortunately, the cash drawer stuck on the first one we received. Amazon exchanged it - no problem. The second one arrived and I played with the coin recognition feature before giving it to my child. I noticed it was not 100% accurate in naming the coin I inserted. I went very slowly to give it time to answer before putting in the next coin. So I returned the 2nd one. I'm not sure if we just had bad luck and got 2 bad ones; I was unwilling to try a 3rd. This product has great features and my child loves it, but I wasn't willing to risk confusing her. Amazon however has won my loyalty with their quick exchange and acceptance of my final return.

If your kid is into "playing store" and handling money, this is a fine cash register toy. It has a calculator/sound card component that uses batteries, but they are not absolutely necessary. Even without batteries, the drawer will still open and a coin slot still works (with a very satistfying spring-action device that chucks the plastic coins into a holding tray...) With the AAs plugged in, though, you get plenty of ding-ding-chingg stimuli, as well as math-game options that may be quite rewarding for kids who are ready for arithmetic. The age range is pretty wide for this toy, and different kids at different developmental levels can get a lot out of it. My only complaint: the synthetic voice that calls out,"Play With Me!" when you leave it alone for a while, and then signs off when you really quit. Other than that, this is pretty spiffy.

I normally don't write reviews, but felt I had to with this one. We bought this cash register for my 3 year old nephew a few years ago, and he and my daughter, who is 2 years younger, loved to play with it (incidentally, his is still working). So, we finally bought one for my daughter for her 3rd birthday. The first one came out of the box broken. The Open key did not work, and we couldn't get the drawer open. So, we sent it back to Amazon and they replaced it fairly quickly (it was within the 30 day return window). This was back in November. Well, about a month ago #after 8 months or so of use, the cash register just stopped working. Swapped the batteries out and pressed the reset button (which was not where the book said it would be - next to the scanner - it was on the bottom of the machine), and still nothing. I called Amazon to try to get another one - mind you, my 3rd cash register - and they said it was beyond the 30 day return policy and I would have to call corporate. Well, I have called customer service now 5 times, since mid-August. 1st three times, they said they'd send a message to "Corporate" and someone would call back. Not one call back. The fourth time, I finally got a supervisor involved who then gave me a contact over at Corporate. This contact said she'd look into the contract they have with Amazon and call me back. That was on Sept. 2nd, and still no call back. So, yes this toy is a lot of fun and educational, but only if it works. And, if it breaks, good luck trying to get a replacement after 30 days, unless you have idle time to be wasting making phone calls to Learning Resources. Terrible, terrible customer service. Feel like this is my only recourse at this point - to let people know about my bad experience.

**UPDATE - JULY 21, 2011** - I probably should have done this long ago, but I forgot that I wrote this review. I did finally end up getting a new cash register after harassing Learning Resources corporate yet another time. It's unfortunate that I had to go through all I did to finally get another restister. Incidentally, this cash register, which has taken a beating from my (now) 2 children, is still going strong and gets a ton of use.

My 5-year-old daughter enjoyed playing with this cash register - while it lasted. For one thing, the cash drawer always sprang open too forcefully, depositing coins on the floor. Apart from that, the coin-identifying function ceased to work properly after only about a month, i.e. if you inserted a quarter, it would read "10c" - which totally defeated the purpose of teaching children about money! Hitting the re-set button did not solve the problem, unfortunately.

In the end, we had to send the product back to Amazon, who promptly gave us a full refund - thanks Amazon! My daughter was disappointed, but she understood that the product was defective. Maybe Santa will send her a better one this Christmas!

I would be reluctant to purchase anything from Learning Resources again.

I got this for my granddaughter who just turned 3. I thought she might be too young for it but she's fascinated by it! She was every toy under the sun but this is the one that she consistently wants to play with. I had read the reviews before I bought it and was skeptical that it would live up to it's reputation but I was wrong. It was a wise choice, and I highly recommend it.