Hey! I have a concept for a Bar Vending machining. Basically a customer can come up to the machine punch in the drink they want, and the alcohol will be despensed. It'll be fairly similar to the coffee vending machines, but it needs to be a little smaller. But I need a quote on manufacturing costs. Here is some basic specs of it:

About 30 types of alcohol. No refrigeration but
an ice maker is needed. There will be two or more nozzles needed to despense. The footprint needs to be about 2x2x1 or so. The alcohol will be stored under
the bar and then piped to the vending machine. Credit and cash will need to be accepted in the machine.

Does anyone have a rough idea of how much something like this would cost to produce, or know someone I can call to find out?

This has been done before... Saw it on "The Man Show" a few years back. Good idea tho...

It is an interesting idea but the problem would be the cost of re-shipping amongst ourselves. If you can find a bunch of people in a tight area that can pick up from a central point it might work. If you have to re-ship you will likely lose the savings.

ok ok... Well, I have a FedEx contact. I'll see what I can do on the shipping end of this. I am also developing a knack for talking to people and getting what I want. However, time and contacts in the vending business are an issue for me right now, so putting together a relevant candy maker list could be difficult for me to put together. If someone could get me a list of makers current marketing and sales dept. #'s and if everyone who is interested would post up $'s that they would be willing to put into a group buy I will call around and try to get somewhere with this.

Its not going to hurt anything if we can get this forum a little more active too... browsing, I notic posts towards the top of topics that are months old... Not going to help me convince a maker that we are *the most active network of vendors on the internet* if they look at us and see lame site activity So POST POST POST!

I really think this could be an important move for us. After all, upfront pricing is one of the largest determining factors on how well our individual business wil succeed.

On an ending note of my rant: I would still be interested in doing this even if it costs me what I am paying for my products now. Still being small, I do most of my purchasing at Wal-Mart/Sams and I am fed up with their recent price increases and just the way they do business in general.

P.S. Could an admin get me a current active users # for the forum?

So I know this is an old thread, but.... Have we ever considered doing a group buy? Someone could approach a candy maker as VENDINGCHAT.COM. *The largest network of snack and soda vendors on the web* or something to that effect? I cannot buy 500lbs like CandyGirl but I do need to stock my machines for less than what I am paying now, as I'm sure everyone here does. I have been in car clubs where we do similar things... If we can get a large enough order I'm sure this would work... Unless you guys have tried before... Sorry if this is a pointless thread but I didn't see anything about group buys just scanning the site...