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VictorVending

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  1. I'm realistic, I'm not asking for Wal-Mart, you need a lot of pull to get Wal-Mart. I don't like retail break rooms, they don't make me money. Maybe if it was a factory with 1,000 employees they would make money, but a little break room that serves 10 employees doesn't make money, that's my experience. The beach bar in particular is rundown, it faces the canal instead of the beach, the crowds there are bit iffy, in fact, I don't think that place is making a lot of money, I think it's one of those bars/restaurants barely getting by. I don't blame the locator for this, I realize he's calling a ton of people and not visiting the places. If I ever decide to locate my two remaining machines, I will gladly place an order with you, but for now, I'm taking a break.
  2. Well, I'm sorry for putting you on the spot. To answer your question, no, I did not get the warranty. Yes, I did give a list of locations I wanted, yet the locations I was often provided weren't always on that list. I suppose I should have been specific, when I said "store" I never meant the break room. I also got tired of showing to locations and being treated like dog poop. That's not entirely your fault, sometimes people say "yes" because they're in a hurry, and then they change their mind, and your company did find me replacement locations, but sometimes those replacements gave me the same issue. They didn't want my machine, they didn't know who I was, they already had another machine so they didn't want mine, etc. It's frustrating. There's nothing I hate more than dragging a machine to my car, going to a location, and then having to drag it back to my apartment because I got rejected. Eventually I just gave up and stopped hiring locators. To be fair, your company did find me my most profitable location, and they've treated me well.
  3. I should have done that, but that usually costs extra and I tend to be a bit of an optimist. I rarely get warranties when I buy stuff. How long have you been in the vending business?
  4. I had a horrible experience with a machine in a break room. It was at a Calvin Klein kid's store. First of all, there aren't that many employees, secondly, there were other machines there, including forgotten machines. I think I made like $1 in one month, $0.50 the next. The places that have worked best for me are: 1. gumball machine in a restaurant with a family section. 2. A machine that sold three things (gumballs, m&ms, etc) in hardware store that does repairs with a nice waiting room. I have a gumball machine in a nice chain hotel, and it does OK. Some months it makes more money, depends on the season. The machine is by the entrance, and I think there's lots of kids because I usually see them by the pool. I have a machine at a beach bar, but that one barely makes money. If it was a cigarrette machine, it would make money. But when you're selling gumballs or Peanut M&Ms, you have to be in the right place. Now I have two machines sitting at home. http://vendinglocator4u.com/ used to be great, but the last times I've hired them it's been a disaster. I used to like Kickstart Locators, but didn't like most of the locations they found me.
  5. Kickstart found me a location, a hotel next to a Walgreens, which is why I suspect my sales aren't that great. vendinglocator4u.com found me two. A K-mart that kicked me out when he found out I'm not donating all my profits to the NCCA, and a great restaurant with a family area. The one head gumball machine does better at the restaurant than the three headed machine at the hotel. Rodney (vendinglocator4u) is also a lot faster and more efficient than Kickstart, and he only charges about $44 after finding you the location. Personally, locators are a MUST for those of us who are shy and don't like talking to strangers unless we have a meeting. Those who enjoy scouting, networking, etc, probably don't need locators.
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