I can respect persistence for a good cause... but as another poster pointed out I will not respect someone who spends 2 weeks working to get 10 dollars from a tedious and silly task like this.
I mean, can you respect a person who spends 4 full days walking around new york, going to every possible vending machine and phone booth, looking for change so as to amass 7 bucks by the end of it...
Especially if they have a job that pays more than 7 dollars an hour?
That person has the persistence of a tree, yet I think we can all say he is far less than respectable.