Well, the first thing that caught my eye in your post was the word "vendstar". Vendstar is the scamming, lying, stealing, fraud and WORST company in bulk. Please do yourself a favor, and make room in your trash for there materials: Read of all the people they have scammed:

http://www.ripoffrep...p;Search=Search

You CAN make money in bulk BTW, many buy those vendstar machines and loose ALL there budget. STAY AWAY!


Costco, has nothing for bulk. Sams has all the candy, and gumballs you will every use (ALL KINDS). Costco is not for bulk. You will buy a sams card that will work AT SAMS ONLY. They do work at any other wholesalers, but sams. You will have to leave your boycott at Sams door.

Kyle


http://www.aaglobalind.com/index.htm

http://www.oakmfg.com/

http://www.nwcorp.com/

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


http://www.aaglobalind.com/index.htm

http://www.oakmfg.com/

http://www.nwcorp.com/

No sir. Gumball Machine Factory is just a re-seller of cheap, import china machines that will cause you a world of problems.

Call A&A. They will hook you up. I just ordered 1 single (yellow) with a stand, new coin mech (like beaver), chrome up-grade (pm supreme), for 81.00 with shipping. A&A are very good machines, very well respected in the vending community.

http://www.aaglobalind.com/ - They should be your source for EVERY thing vending. They will send you biz. cards, a giant folder filled with vending goodies, and all kinds of stuff for free with your 1st order. Very nice people. You will not every see that from the company you are looing at.

Kyle

Both Peanut and reg are now in dark.

I am also 19!

Anyways, I think your idea to remove the M&I, and HT way good, but there my best sellers. What do you have in that machine. Mind sharing?

K.G.