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Subject: Re: Currency and tips advice. Posted on: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:24:42 -0000

>> I have yet to see a soda vending machine take more than than
>> a $1 bill. ...

> I've seen a couple that do larger bills (Vegas monorail, for example),
> and they're starting to take credit as well.

Ah, but he said a *soda* (pop) vending machine. Presumably monorail
rides cost more.

For other sorts of machines, I've seen ones that take bills all the way
up to $100 Canadian (selling phone cards) and 100 Swiss francs (selling
train tickets), both of which denominations would be over $80 US.

> I've yet to see any completely automated system that takes debit though.

On the Toronto transit system, most fare-media purchases are handed
by a human, but there are also machines selling tokens and weekly and
monthly passes. The token machines only take cash (in fact, only $10
and $20 bills, or coins if you're paying equivalent of the cash fare
to buy a single token) -- but the pass machines take only debit cards.
--
Mark Brader "Actually, $150, to an educational institution,
Toronto turns out to be about the same as a lower amount."
msb@vex.net -- Mark Horton

My text in this article is in the public domain.