dromero Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Hi, how can many locations can you visit a day? if each location has 1 or 2 machines? is it possible to visit 20 a day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepherdsflock Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Depends on how long your day is and how far from home you have to travel. Most of my machines are in a city about 30 minutes from my house. With an hour of driving there and back, I can usually visit about 12 locations in a total of 6 hours (that's including the hour that's ate up driving to and from the route). However, about half of these are 6-way and larger rack locations. So, if most of your locations are close to home, you have an entire day to work with, and you're only dealing with singles and doubles, 20 locations shouldn't be hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasFreemason Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 20 bulk locations is easily doable. Should even give some time to find new locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ska173 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Like shepherdsflock said, time and distance, from you and location to location. I have a 17 machine route I can run in 3 hours, it is set up well and quick in and outs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 20 is very doable for singles and doubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bravo Duck Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 20-30 charity. 5-10 commission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dromero Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 20-30 charity. 5-10 commission. why the difference??? btw charity and commission Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bravo Duck Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Commission locations have 5-9+ heads,some heads are bigger than charity heads so they take a little longer to clean. You count the money on-site with most commission locations and that involves tracking down and/or talking with the owner/manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 If you can't hit 20 singles/doubles in a day then you have a proximity problem. That being said, you're asking the wrong question. The real question is $net/day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney69 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 It takes me 4.5 hours to service 19 4 and 8 selections. 4 of them commission all local. I also have another route that is 20 with half commission, 2 of them, are racks and the reminder is mostly 8 selection uturns and takes me 7 hours with 30 min drive to the first location. I bet you could do 30-40 in a day if you configured the layout right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 It takes me 4.5 hours to service 19 4 and 8 selections. 4 of them commission all local. I also have another route that is 20 with half commission, 2 of them, are racks and the reminder is mostly 8 selection uturns and takes me 7 hours with 30 min drive to the first location. I bet you could do 30-40 in a day if you configured the layout right. You run all those U-Turns and you were trying to educate a newbie on not buying shooting hoops? SMH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbilly Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 You run all those U-Turns and you were trying to educate a newbie on not buying shooting hoops? SMH Glad to have you back Kelly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney69 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 You run all those U-Turns and you were trying to educate a newbie on not buying shooting hoops? SMHI wasn't trying to educate about shooting hoops, I was saying that someone just starting out should try singles and doubles to see is they like it. You can voice your pinion and say whatever you like, I still feel that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Shooting hoops is a "single head" gumball machine that you can vend toys or bbs in. A very versatile machine that is a high quality work horse. Also if you ever decide you don't like vending you can sell them easily for the price you paid ($100 in this particular case) this year next year or even 5 yrs from now. No brainer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney69 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Shooting hoops is a "single head" gumball machine that you can vend toys or bbs in. A very versatile machine that is a high quality work horse. Also if you ever decide you don't like vending you can sell them easily for the price you paid ($100 in this particular case) this year next year or even 5 yrs from now. No brainer I don't know why you need to come to another thread to prove your point to me. A person finds wisdom in many. So I try to give a different view on the topic. This thread is in regards to how many you can service, not how you can prove your point to me. Would I buy them? Maybe, but I would go out and look at the locations that I would potentially locate them in first and make an educated decision, not just ask one opinion. I would take ALL of the opinions that I got and decide. If someone had a different opinion than the rest, I would dig deeper to figure out how I wanted to run my own route and adapt it to me. If this was a cookie cutter business, anyone could do it. I am the first one to admit I don't know everything about vending, that's why I came here to get outside opinions. I have listened and adapted it to the route that I currently have. I have even made some decisions that were against what I found on here just to fill the gaps and then slowly changing to adapt to that. I may be wrong, or not, that's not the point. It's about challenging each other to make us grow. Like your tag line says: you never learn anything by doing it right. You can't grow with out opposite opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Hang in there with those UTurns, wish you luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney69 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 If you new what I was doing you would know that I'm in the process of cutting the 8's to 4's, selling my excess uturns and buying oaks for racks. Don't be so quick to judge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 12 yrs in vending and you are just now doing that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodney69 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Let's just say that at one time not long ago I had over 800 heads and they were making on average of 7 or head with uturns, with divorce and a few life thins that happened I ended up with 11 locations. Use your imagination. With nothing but equipment to my name 1 1/2 years ago, I now have close to 70 locations and not sure on head count, but enough. From where I'm at, I'm pretty happy with what I have and thankful for it. God had done some amazing things with what I have right now and still have another 50 to place. You have no clue of what I've been through in the last 5 years, nor am I inclined to discuss it. Judge all you want, I really don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Gotta keep those women happy!!! Just look at my face, ain't no woman gonna walk away from that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserri Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Please stay on topic Kelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BouncyBalls Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Please stay on topic Kelly. My bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Falcon Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I see I haven't missed a beat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treadmill Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Hi, how can many locations can you visit a day? if each location has 1 or 2 machines? is it possible to visit 20 a day? As others have said yes it is possible but depends on how tight your route is. When I had my route of 400 gumball machines and 155 triple head machines, it took me 3 weeks to service all machines at a 90 day service cycle. It was a tiring 3 weeks but after it was done I had over 10k+ in gross sales. I think I did like 40-50 locations a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musser Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Were those 800 all uturns? If so you are the third guy I ever heard of big with uturns. Were you ever at the Baltimore bvr shows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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