havending Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Back in the day operators either did bulk or cranes/amusement rarely did they do both. Over the past several years more operators have been crossing over and doing both. I have just now started cranes and am glad I did. I have gotten locations that before would not let me do bulk. I showed them a crane and they let me do both. I am doing about 125 a week per unit and cogs is about 8% and about 85 % of the sales are dollar bill and are more easy to process than coin. I'm not saying go out and buy cranes but if you add them its not a bad thing. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCCvending Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 congratz on your cross! happy vending! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 I'll drink to that! *Passes out party hats... pops champagne* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Back in the day operators either did bulk or cranes/amusement rarely did they do both. Over the past several years more operators have been crossing over and doing both. I have just now started cranes and am glad I did. I have gotten locations that before would not let me do bulk. I showed them a crane and they let me do both. I am doing about 125 a week per unit and cogs is about 8% and about 85 % of the sales are dollar bill and are more easy to process than coin. I'm not saying go out and buy cranes but if you add them its not a bad thing. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk what kind of cranes , what did you pay for them, new or used? care to say what kind of locations are doing 125 /wk with a crane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havending Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Chinese buffet and the bulk in these locations are around 150 a month which is about right. So I figure the crane is another who market of customers. I fill and clean weekly and collect on a 6 week cycle. I bought some oak maximizer units for 500 each they are 36 inches. They were super clean very very min. Scratches I only counted a few on each and had to look for them. And work great. They also came with new dba which would have cost me 250 each. They also had all the service records and manuals. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 500 sounds like a great price, i wired dbas into my cranes havent got them out yet tho , its really very simple to wire in a DBA and the DBAs are cheap i got them for 30 bucks... appreciate the info btw great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havending Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 500 sounds like a great price, i wired dbas into my cranes havent got them out yet tho , its really very simple to wire in a DBA and the DBAs are cheap i got them for 30 bucks... appreciate the info btw great stuff. 30? Are they up graded for new bills? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 30? Are they up graded for new bills? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk yeah they are BL-700 stackerless validator. a lot of cherry master games use them so they come up on craigslist and ebay quite often http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=ICT+BL-700&_sacat=See-All-Categories you need to wire in the power, and then wire it into the coin pulse line, then configure the validator to pulse 4 for $1.00 . The most tricky part is finding a coin door that it fits in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 30? Are they up graded for new bills? Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk yeah they are BL-700 stackerless validator. a lot of cherry master games use them so they come up on craigslist and ebay quite often http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=ICT+BL-700&_sacat=See-All-Categories you need to wire in the power, and then wire it into the coin pulse line, then configure the validator to pulse 4 for $1.00 . The most tricky part is finding a coin door that it fits in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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