Coinstar: Count your coins for FREE for using Amazon or iTunes!

Coinstar, the coin-counting kiosks in 10,000 supermarkets across the U.S., normally charges 8.9% to count your coins. However, Coinstar will now count your coins for free if you choose to redeem your cash into an e-certificate or gift card, such as iTunes.
I actually discovered this when I was looking for Coca-Cola Blak. The Food Emporium in Union Square has two Coinstar kiosks that offer to turn your coins into a gift card to iTunes or an e-certificate to Amazon.com. Apparently, Coinstar has been offering the Amazon.com service since September 2005 and just announced the iTunes gift card service two weeks ago. There are also some other gift cards that select kiosks offer, such as Borders and Starbucks gift cards.
I've heard that several banks will count your coins for free but I don't know where these are so I definitely recommend using Coinstar. I don't use iTunes but having Amazon.com gift certificates is never a bad thing.

[Edit: For some reason, Blogspot keeps deleting this entry after this point...]

Anyway, before going out to turn your change into iTunes songs, make sure your local Coinstar kiosk offers iTunes. The "advanced machine locator" on Coinstar.com should tell you if your kiosk offers it, but the locator doesn't seem to be working.

And here is an article about the new Coinstar iTunes service: Coinstar turns loose change into iTunes songs