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2nd UPDATE: I receive emails from various accounts on my private email every two weeks or so. Currently, I've received six or seven and every month or so the offered price goes up. Currently, the bribe being offered to remove this one star review is $50. Continuing to report these emails to Amazon. UPDATE: just recieved an email offering me $30 (I've received five now, offer is up to $45) to remove this review--AFTER I recieved a full refund months ago. This is not only against Amazon TOS for sellers, but it's against the government's FTC laws. The illegal behavior has been reported to Amazon. DO. NOT. BUY. Cute idea, horribly executed. First, it's little more than a glorified alarm clock/calculator. Heaven forbid you have anything larger than a $20. If you do, and if you want the thing to properly track the amount in its guts (which, let's face it, is a major part of its purpose), you must enter and remove said bill several times to achieve the proper recorded quantity. So if you have a $50 bill, you have to enter a bill 3 times minimum to convince the machine it has, in fact, consumed $50 ($20+$20+$10) because you have to tell it what denomination of bill you are inserting. There are no buttons for $50 and $100. Recognizing this isn't the usual for children, it will be a much bigger problem than it has any right to be for those who save larger bills. Second: the device lasted less than 24 hours as a functioning thing. Received midday, by bedtime the withdrawal function was no longer working. Not even when I removed and reinserted the batteries to achieve a hard reset did it allow us to access my daughter's savings. In the end, I had to break into the thing to retrieve her money so we could return the machine. All in all, I can't even recommend this for small children just learning currency. It's unreliable, inelegant, and overpriced. Stay away.