Zillions Deluxe ATM Machine :: Education by Design Store

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2008-09-30
Good quality and good price! The problem is, my son is asking me real money to play the machine now!

Worked for a while

2008-06-03
Gave this to our 6 year old daughter for Christmas. It worked fine for a couple of months, but now won't work at all. We have replaced the batteries, reprogrammed the ATM code, re-input all the coins. What a waste of time and money. It was fun while it worked.

Lots of fun & great way to teach kids about banking

2008-05-17
My 6 and 8 year old boys each have one. The ATM works well and they really enjoy them. It's also a great way to teach younger kids the concept of an bank account/ATM - that you can only get out what you put in and the bank isn't just some bottomless cash pit. Quality is pretty good for the price. For younger kids, it seems a little too tedious to enter deposit amounts (for each bill) and withdrawal amounts so ours have never been able to accurately track how much is in it. Plus there's no way for them to track how many Reece's or Hershey bars are stashed away in it. But they do enjoy making deposits and withdrawals and counting how much they have in it. One word of advice - watch out for your credit cards. Both my sons promptly lost the fake cards that comes with it and you need to insert a credit card in the slot to activate the ATM. So when my Amex went missing, it didn't take long to figure out where it was.

If you forget the PIN, you can reset it to 1234 by taking out the batteries. To reprogram your own PIN, enter the current PIN+ENTER, then press ENTER twice more, then the new PIN+ENTER.

ATM For All Ages

2008-02-22
I first purchased this product for my 9 year old God son. We enjoyed it so much that I ended up purchasing another one for my God Daughter. After it came, I purchased 3 more for my mother (83 years old), my daughter, and myself.

My mother can not get the hang of it (she's not trying) but I am using mine and my daughter is using hers. It beats having money laying around the house and when we need extra money we can always go to the ATM machine. It is fun. Mine doesn't really add and subtract correctly but I can use as a bank and put away and get out money as needed!!!

delivered was not as promissed!

2008-01-22
i was ver upset with amazon! i asked for this toy to give to my son on the holidays , i payed to be deliver in 2 days and they delivered after the holydays 7 days later...never buy anything again from amazon !!i has to find the toy for my son in the last minute after run in several stores at chistmas eve..very upset...the toy itself is good .

Great Bank!

2008-01-10
Smashing your piggy bank is a thing of the past with this ATM machine that works as a personal savings bank. The large screen welcomes you by name, then gives you all of your up-to-date account information. Its built-in camera and sound effects are so real, you'll think you just pulled into the bank! Requires 3 "AA" batteries (included). Measures 12" x 4" x 10".

It's a nice toy

2008-01-09
My 5 y.o. son asked ATM machine but unfortunately there are not much to choose from. This one has a big minus - you open lower compartment if ATM is filled everything is falling out. It also does not dispense money, you take as much as you want and machine does not automatically track it. It can't be really used as piggy bank.
Neverless my son LOVED it for a week and then stop playing with it.

Deluxe ATM Machine

2008-01-02
This looked to be a good product for helping my little girl save money, but it didn't work right out of the box. It wouldn't allow us to set up a pin number so we couldn't do anything with it. I returned it the day after Christmas. I might have gotten a replacement if it would have cost $15 or so, but I don't feel it was worth what we paid.

Stopped working after 15 minutes

2008-01-01
Not as durable as expected. The bank stopped working properly just after 15 minutes of use. I replaced the batteries to see if that would fix the problem, no luck. So I sent it back... hopefully the replacement will be better.

My daughter loves it

2007-12-31
I brought this bank for my daughter for christmas and she simply loves it. See was never really into money. when she got a birthday or christmas card with money in it she would just give it to me but now with this bank she keeps them and puts the money in her new ATM bank. I would suggest this bank for all kids.

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