Hi,I have a old all steel coin counter,its fast and accurate,let me know if your intrested and I'll email you a pic. boatmoter@yahoo.com

Thanks, but I got one of those cheap coin counting tubes, fill it to a level and you know its $10 worth. I can mark it at other intervals for say 5, 2.5 , etc.

I'll give the owner his cut and then go to commerce bank, they have free coin counters and will exchange it with bills for free.

By hand will work fine for a LONG time. We have over 300 locations and count by hand.

Big Mike

Good to know, I figured it would be awkward to count by hand in front of the owner, but I guess the simpler the better.

Hello Mike. Go with A&A Global Ind. for your machines. Stay away from the triples (that is what you call a 3 part candy machine BTW). ALL locations will have 2 good sellers, not 3. Plus Triples are big, and bulky, and weigh a lot. There ugly, and just don't have a good presence in normal locations. I use mostly A&A, and they have proven to be the best, machine wise. You will have to get a Sams Club membership for candy and gum. You will have to come up with a locating speech that works for you. If you want, hook up with a vendors charity. The most popular would have to be the National Children's Cancer Society, and Child Search. You can also do commission vending.

I started with 1 double head, and put it in a hair salon on commission (I still have the location). I used Mike and Ikes, and Peanut M&M's. I tested the water with this. I pulled $25 the first month, and bought 3 more machines, and so on. i now have just over 100 machines, all placed in person, without a locator.

One big mistake I made was with triples. I bought a BUNCH of them, and I really don't like them because they work only in very few places. I am limited with factory break rooms with them. There is enough traffic/hungry people there to support 3 selections. Most of the time, product is stale, and gets waste in triples. Double heads are OK, and Singles are the very best.

One thing you must think about is the machines you go with. Stay away from all companies but: OAK, Northwestren, and A&A. All of those are proven to be the best. For triples, I used XYZ.

I hope this helped!

Kyle
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Kyle,

Thanks for the informative post. When you locate do you do this via cold calling or door knocking?

Thanks,

Jason