Comments on: UPDATE ON ELLIS ISLAND COIN PROMOTION

By: Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:25:23 +0000

Ah. This explains a LOT. This is much different from them giving the 100% in cash and the 20% bonus in free play. A LOT of that 100% will never make it back out the front door. For Frugal types, there’s no real difference between free play and cash, as the method is to pick the best VP machine available and “launder” the free play, cashing out regardless of the result after running it through once. For ploppies, though, it’s oh so hard to do that. Stations knows it–as I remarked earlier, 90-95% worth of free play never makes it back out the door, or so a slot manager there told me. So Ellis figures to get back not only that extra $80 but a goodly portion of the $400 as well. Pretty smart, guys! Though I still can’t understand why they aren’t being besieged by the homeless. Well, maybe they are…
By the way, can you launder the free play at one of the two remaining 9/6 JOB Quick Quads or their .25 NSUD, or are those machines ineligible for free play? If that’s so, then you have to launder the FP through one of their awful 97% games, which will cost you 3% of your money. A good deal still, but degraded a bit.

By: Mooski

Mooski — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:26:21 +0000

Believe it or not, $400 in coins isn’t really all THAT heavy!

If they were the Presidential or Susan B Anthony dollar coins, it would be just over 7 pounds.

Quarters, dimes and halves all weigh $20 per pound, so that’s only 20 pounds.

Now pennies and nickels – that’s where the weght comes in. $400 in nickels are close to 90 pounds, and all pennies would be about 250 pounds!

Now, one could go to the bank and buy a box of quarters for $500, and spend 15 minutes unwrapping them into a bucket, take it to Ellis Island, and get $80 in free play for about an hour’s ‘work’. And the bucket would weigh just 25 pounds…

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:46:32 +0000

I stand corrected-my mailer does indeed state that it is any day this month.

By: Dan Sowards

Dan Sowards — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:27:25 +0000

As you always say, the devil is in the details. So, hopefully you’ll get us the rundown on your experience. I sometimes play “free play” through once then cash out, just to determine what percent I won or lost on that amount of free play. But in this case, $400 of YOUR money was so-called free play, and that I don’t like….even if you planned to play anyway. So, give is a full rundown soon.

By: KJ

KJ — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:07:06 +0000

I would have expected that they would have given the full amount in free play. Sounds like a good promo. I might have to go to the bank first to get $400 in coins first.

By: Dave Edwards

Dave Edwards — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:21:42 +0000

Should have made $50-$70 in profit so it’s worth over $100 a person a month.

By: queen of comps

queen of comps — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:15:16 +0000

It was free play so, of course, it had to be played through at least once.

By: Ira

Ira — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:52:31 +0000

Jean,

Were you able to cash out your coin cash, once you downloaded it to a machine, or did you need to play through? I would imagine you would have to play through your free play.

By: Bob Veit

Bob Veit — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:44:16 +0000

Hope you turned that $480 into much-much more.

By: William Clark

William Clark — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:35:44 +0000

GOOD JOB!!!