Well, it has happened to me.

[sbishop]

I went to service a few locations today. I found what looks to be brand new vendstar 3ks next to mine. At one loc the owner told me that the lady who left the new one said that she (or I, not sure) would be by to pick up the old one. They are with the same chairty as me.

The funny thing is so far I have only seen these at my crappy locations. I thought about calling the number on the machines and reporting broken machines just to waste her time, but i won't.  I am thinking about calling to confront her.

I guess it had to happen sooner or latter. My only hope is that she bought them new and paid $400 per machine.

[davidsurvz]

Are you saying that some person brought a machine in with your same charity on their machine and had the nerve to tell the store owner / personnel that someone would be by to pick up the old machine (meaning yours) later?

[Faith Vending]

Call her, she cannot be allowed to get away with that. If she won't I would talk to the owner and see if he will help you out. I have gone to service locs before and my machine is in the back room because they want it removed but for some reason never called me.

[sbishop]

Call her, she cannot be allowed to get away with that. If she won't I would talk to the owner and see if he will help you out. I have gone to service locs before and my machine is in the back room because they want it removed but for some reason never called me.

That happened to me last month. Went to service a chineese resturant the machien was gone and a breat cancer gum machine was in the spot. They had put it in the back. The owner likes the breast cancer charity better. I got it back out, but will mostlikey end up having to pull it

[davidsurvz]

I would tell the person who approves the machines at the location that this person is trying to sneak their machine in and yours out. This is a good example of why it is a good idea to have a good rapport with your locations. I have heard of some lowlife tactics before but that is pathetic!

[The Mage]

Change her locks.

[sbishop]

Change her locks.

I thought about it I have about 15 different keys.(that remids me I need to get them keeyed alike)

[Jax Snacks]

I could see this happening more and more as NCCS get saturated with vendors.  Are you sure it was the vendor and not her locator?  This sounds like something a sleazy locator would do.  Either way a call is in order to get things strait before any regretful tampering occurs.  Business owners will not want to get in the middle of this and may think you both "work" for the same charity.  So talking to the owners could back fire and get everyone kicked out depending on what charity pitch was used.  It could be worse, I have heard of (in-person locators telling the location that they are "replacing" the existing machine with a "newer" machine.  They take the existing machine then leave town and the unsuspecting vendor doesn't realize what happened - until he gets some phone calls from the upset vendor! 

Jax

[The Mage]

Well to be more serious, this is another reason I want to make sure nobody thinks I work for a charity, but a businessman who works with one.  For me it would be easy to say, "It doesn't belong to any charity, it belongs to me."  I won't have any fear of being, "found out".

If you are not telling the business that you are the charity, as some do, then let them know it looks like some sort of BS is going on here.  Then get to the bottom of it.

If it is a locator, if you call the vendor, you might get the locator fired.  (Hopefully.) 

[sbishop]

I told the owner flat out that I owned the machine. I also told him that is says that on the sticker.

I am not sure if she used a locator. That is one of the reasons I want to call her and find out.

[BudLeiser]

Wow I am not looking forward to the day this kind of mess involves me. I was sweating a location for 2 months before it was stolen. I knew it was a bad bar to leave something not chained down.  Now I get to look forward to the ole bait and switch. Golphers moving in and squeezing up territory. Ah the joys of being a vendor.

[The Mage]

I told the owner flat out that I owned the machine. I also told him that is says that on the sticker.

I am not sure if she used a locator. That is one of the reasons I want to call her and find out.

Well then tell them it sounds like some sort of scam, which is what it sounds like to me.  If this person got in legitimately, fine.  But if they are willing to scam their way in, I wouldn't trust that they wouldn't try to do something to reduce your sales to increase theirs, (no real logic to this, but I know plenty of people who think that way,) or to get you out of there.

But personally I would try to convince the business to deal with it.  Then if there is any animosity, it is against the business, and not you.  (And she knows how to find at least one of your machines.)

[sbishop]

That happened to me last month. Went to service a chineese resturant the machien was gone and a breat cancer gum machine was in the spot. They had put it in the back. The owner likes the breast cancer charity better. I got it back out, but will mostlikey end up having to pull it

Well I went back and the machine was still in the spot where I left it. It also kept pulling in over $10 per month with the other 2 machines there. Last month When I ran the route, the breast cancer machine was gone! I just had to stick it out.

[lurtsman]

Well I went back and the machine was still in the spot where I left it. It also kept pulling in over $10 per month with the other 2 machines there. Last month When I ran the route, the breast cancer machine was gone! I just had to stick it out.

Great news!

At the same time, it does 10$ per month. If I had put a machine next to you and also got 10$ mine likely would've been gone in a few also.

[Agapevending]

I had a location once that I got from a  locator in a pretty good little Restaurant .  This place  had  a  huge rack in it. Plus to  a  tippler head and my dbl . Any  way  the machine was there probably  a year.  one day i went in  found it not  there. so asked where it was . no one knew. So I went back a few days later and  asked the owner.  what had happened to it. they had  stuffed it in  a back  room  and  had said they had called me to  come get it.  but they never did.  They  thought they had  to many machines in there  is the line I got. Sometime it happens to all of us.

Matthew

AgapeVending