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Buying a route with mostly planet antares combo soda snack machines?


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Hi, 

I am considering buying a route with mostly planet antares office deli combo soda snack machines.  I talked with someone who works at a vending machine repair shop and he did not recommend those machines because of their poor maintenance/reliability record.  Can anyone with experience with planet antares office deli type machines offer any advice?  If I were to offer to buy those machines what is the Planet Antares office deli combo used machine price worth?   Thank-you to all experienced vending machine operators in advance.

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The Antares machines are worth their weight in scrap when stripped of all the plastic parts. So if scrap metal is going for $100 a ton (2,000 lbs) you would need to strip all the non metal off the machines and turn in about 4 of them to get $100.

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Hi, 

I am considering buying a route with mostly planet antares office deli combo soda snack machines.  I talked with someone who works at a vending machine repair shop and he did not recommend those machines because of their poor maintenance/reliability record.  Can anyone with experience with planet antares office deli type machines offer any advice?  If I were to offer to buy those machines what is the Planet Antares office deli combo used machine price worth?   Thank-you to all experienced vending machine operators in advance.

The only real value here might be in the accounts themselves and then you'd be buying a lot of blue sky.  Any account that could get by with just an Office Deli probably is not worth much anyway - more bother than it's worth but sometimes you'll see those machines in accounts that warrant two full size machines.  You'll have to take a look at the route and see what type of accounts it has.  If it turns out to be a bunch of offices then I'd walk.

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To all members giving me valuable input.  Thank-you sooo much!  I am new to the world of vending and also new to the forum.  I am so glad to have found this forum.  Reading from the forum I found great info on this topic on old threads just like AngryChris said.  I will not buy the route due to many reasons regarding Planet Antares office deli combo machines.  I will consider this thread closed.

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