I used this product to carry out a once-annual job of counting the coins from a "savings bottle" and banking the proceeds in time for Christmas. Some supermarkets have much larger machines to do a similar job, but charge a %age of the total in the process and only give a credit note for the supermarket itself as a reward. This product does that for free - once you've bought it! In use, some of the coins were sorted into the wrong compartment - but there were only a few of these. Also, the machine only counts into a container that does not stack them, so I had to count the coins into the appropriate value myself before bagging them to take to the bank. However, the machine's counting mechanism did its job in the main, apart from the problem of the wrongly diverted coins. Altogether, it made a once-tedious job much easier, so it was fairly near-perfect for the job. My thanks to its manufacturer and the seller.