Coinstar: Free $5 Amazon.com MP3 credit when you cash in $20 worth of coins

by Crystal on August 28, 2012

Have $20 worth of coins sitting in a jar at your house? Take them to a nearby Coinstar kiosk and cash them in for a gift card and you’ll get a free $5 Amazon.com MP3 credit.

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Anne August 28, 2012 at 01:49 pm

I wish my local Coinstar machine had Amazon as a cash out option on it…
melissa August 28, 2012 at 02:03 pm

Do they keep a certain percentage of the $20? Or do you get $25 back ($5 amazon credit + $20 cash)? Or how do get the $20 back? I’m going to start searching around for $20 worth of change!
- Crystal August 28, 2012 at 02:18 pm
  
  You get $20 back in a gift card of your choice plus the $5 Amazon MP3 credit.
- Jaclyn August 28, 2012 at 02:19 pm
  
  Ours takes like 18%- so on $20 that would be $3.60. Still a money maker, I guess.
  - Crystal August 28, 2012 at 02:48 pm
    
    There is no fee when you cash out for a giftcard.
- robyn August 28, 2012 at 03:33 pm
  
  NO, there isn’t a fee when you get these gift cards (ebay, paypal, amazon etc). i cash change in appx twice a month for an amazon gift-card-code and have never been charged a fee. the fee is only applied for cash.
Mandy August 28, 2012 at 02:28 pm

I just read the rules on Coinstar’s website and you have to cash out for an Amazon.com gift card (not just any gift card) if you want the $5 Amazon MP3 credit. If you do that you will end up with a $20 (or more, depending on the amount of change you put in) gift card to Amazon, and a code for a $5 Amazon MP3 credit on your receipt.

Any time you choose a gift card instead of cash they don’t charge you a fee, but if you want the $5 Amazon MP3 credit you must choose the Amazon.com gift card.
- melissa August 28, 2012 at 03:26 pm
  
  Thanks for clarifying! Sounds like a good deal for us as we are always buying stuff off of Amazon! Time to start searching the couch cushions. : )
- Andrea August 28, 2012 at 03:28 pm
  
  Yes, thank you for clarifying. There are a lot of bulk food options on Amazon!
- Kristina August 28, 2012 at 04:54 pm
  
  Yes and FYI you can do this multiple times and apply all codes *but* the codes cannot be combined.
  
  If you do the deal 10 times and apply all codes, you’ll have $50 in free mp3 music … but if you buy an album for $7, only $5 of it will be free and your debit/credit card will be charged $2. BE CAREFUL!
  - Crystal August 28, 2012 at 05:39 pm
    
    Thanks so much for the heads up on that!
Rachel August 28, 2012 at 04:13 pm

Those machines can be wildly inaccurate, and could short you as much as 10%. My future brother-in-law took what he knew was $10 in coins, already in rolls, to his bank to get bills for it, and they told him he had to use what was effectively a CoinStar machine, which told him he had only $8 and change. I have the spare three minutes it takes to roll that much change and not get cheated.
- Andrea September 02, 2012 at 04:50 pm
  
  Many banks won’t take already rolled coins anymore, so they force you to unroll and use the machine or go somewhere else.
Andrea September 02, 2012 at 04:49 pm

I did this deal yesterday. The offer is ongoing until September 23 and the MP3 codes have to be used by Halloween.