Hey everyone-  i was advised that i should learn how to repair these machine before i buy...but how do i learn?  are there schools for this?

thanks.

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Who said this? haha.. there are no schools for that! There are three ways I know, one way is hiring a repairer and come out to fix the machines, and it costs! The other way is fix it yourself and you will learn it or write the problem on the other forum, someone may answer your concern.

Nevertheless, machines are farely easy to fix, only a few parts that to always needs to take care of as i know.

Sorry to say I have to agreed with Tim, stay away with anything vending opportunities!!! Scam! Scam! Scam! Unless you want to lose your money real fast!
You will never get your money back!

Hi- is the soda/snack vending machine business lucrative?
How many locations/machines would you need to make an extra 25,000 per yr?

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It is all depends on what locations you have and what machines you have.
I calcaluted from my area about 20 machines in 10 locations at least.

Honor Vending business... you mean those without a physical machines in the location and just let people take out snacks from the tray?

Let me tell you some of my experience, I used to worked in an office that have two of those tray sitting in kitchen, most people will take the snacks without putting any money in the little hole. Or some people will put a dime or two in it.
If you depends the revenues from the tray sales, forget it. You will never make it back your cost. You must dealing with the location decision maker for a fixed cost in order to make a profit. And 50 trays won't last you very long, in that office it have 4 trays, 2 trays outside and 2 trays inside the cabinet. And goes thru every two weeks or long. Most people like cookies and chips, gums and candies are not selling that much.

And $3000 for 50 trays, = $60 per tray. Does it includes snacks in it?
And how long for them to locate all the 30 trays for you? Cuz I heard a lot of bad things about locators, and how they rip people off, so be aware and check the background before you buy it.

Hope it helps for you.

I don't know what kind of method for you to get your locations. But for me, I will make some snacks basket as a sampler for my future clients after I make my first contact to their Decision Maker.

It works sometimes.

It is a numbers games, more contacts faster you can sell all the products sitting in your garage.