Media 187

[wegroup]

Greetings - I currently have a location that does between $500-$600 per week, year round. It is serviced by two AP 932's (four wide) side by side.  I am thinking about purchasing a Crane Media 187 (six wide) to replace those machines with.  I need the 932's elsewhere, and believe that the Media will handle their place nicely.  If any of you fine folks are currently using the Media 187, I'd really appreciate some feedback on its' performance.  Currently, all my equipment is AP, I don't know much about AMS or USI quality, but am open to suggestions.  As always, thanks.

[AZVendor]

They are practically all plastic and take about 15 minutes to boot up if you power them off.  They are the only snack sold by Crane now so unless you go AMS or USI it's your only source of new snacks.

[lacanteen]

While boot up time is more like 4 minutes, it feels like 15 when standing there waiting for it. I operate 60 of the media machines and have had no major issues other than programming is slow and clunky. The machines appear to be fragile, but I have them in high volume industrial sites, casinos, and schools. 

I would recommend you hold out for a gen 2 version which boots up in under a minute and has a larger touchscreen. Also, don't get talked into Crane's integrated cashless. That is also transitioning into a new platform and not ready for prime time. Do not let them bully you into thinking you *must* be able to remotely push pricing, software updates, and advertising to the machines using their exclusive system.

[wegroup]

Thank you for your input, it’s what makes this forum my go to place.