Hobby paying for itself.

[KreKol]

My wife works for a couple that owns a RV park, an apartment complex, and several rental houses.  This past weekend they allowed me to take one of my soda machines over to the apartment complex and set it up in the laundry room.  Only the residents have a key to the laundry room, so that should cut down the chances of somebody vandalizing the machine.  About 80% of the residents are collage kids so selling soft drinks should not be a problem.  The best part is the owners don’t want any of the profit from the machine.  So all of the profit will go into this fun but HEAVY hobby.  Good thing I own a 1 ton pickup truck…..

Hey Spider,  thanks for the parts and hopefully we can do business again.

I'm glad that they made it to you.  

I currently have a USS 96 in my office that is only used be me and my office buddies.  I can't officially sell drinks, but have been known to accept donations.  '>  '>  Every little bit helps when you are trying to restore a machine.

[loman4ec]

That is great!!  '>  For me the fun is in finding the machines and going on the road trip to get them wondering the whole way if the old pepsi machine they described might be a VMC81. Then I sell them so that I can go on my next adventure. What type of machine did you put in? I have also heard of alarms that you can put in machines so if the door is opened it goes off and scares the #$@hole that tried to break into the machine. We had something similar to these in some of our arcade games when I worked at the lazer tag place.

[KreKol]

The machine I am using is a RC Vendo 348 6 selection 70’s can machine and yes I have RC in it.  My wife is there at least 5 days a week and if something did happen to it I would just sick her on them.  Plus I put this warning label on my machine.

[BrianB]

That's an absolute riot!!! '>

Where did you get that sticker at?  I need one of those.  '>

[KreKol]

I bought two CDs that have scanned soda labels, prices, manuals, warning labels, and templates for pop flavor strips you slide into the buttons on soda machines.  I paid $20 for the CDs and they have saved me a lot of money.  With photo paper and a printer I can make pop flavor strips that looks like the real thing.  This warning label was printed on a sheet of paper that had a sticker backing on it.  If this machine was outside I would have to use some laminate on the warning label to keep it from getting ruined.  Spider, I sent you a ready to be printed BMP of the warning label.

After 6 days I pulled $13.00 out of my RC Machine today.  Went to the store and bought a case of Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper and put them into the machine.  Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper are selling the most, with Pepsi not even selling one can.  Right now I am making around .23 cents a can profit.  That does not seem like much but it does add up real quick.

I too enjoyed reading your label.  Is there a source where others might find the CD's for sale?

Seems like the sweeter flavors are your best sellers.  Might you try Coke instead of the Pepsi.  A counterpoint to the sweet flavors.

[KreKol]

Looks like they are only selling DVDs now and the disks have been updated from when I bought mine.  If you need flavor labels this is what you want to buy.    Flavor Labels DVD on E-Bay

I do have Coke in it and it is selling, but not as good a the Dr Pepper and Mountain Dew.

[sodaworks]

LOL, Now that's funny right there!!! '>  '>

Not sure why it sounds funny?  Does sound like a younger crowd.  Checked out the DVD's on eBay.  I will be buying one.  Thank you. '>

Thanks Krekol,

It came through just fine.  This will be perfect on my machine at work!  By the way Diet coke w/ Splenda and Pepsi are my biggest movers.  I was able to take request from the coworkers so that I could stock what they wanted.  

[KreKol]

I work with one of the people who lives there and he said he would like to see something diet in the machine.  I have thought about putting up a suggestion sheet to see what everybody would like to see in the machine.  The problem with that is the machine only has 6 slots and with around 60 people living there I am not going to please everybody.  I am planning on letting it ride the way it is now for another 2 weeks and decide from there what to take out, what to put in, and if a suggestion sheet is needed.  This is what I have in it now:  RC, Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Coke, Cherry Coke, and Pepsi.  Pepsi is the only drink not selling and has a good chance of getting replaced with Diet Coke.  About 95% of the Soda Machines, restaurants, and fast food places in this town sell Pepsi, so I am not surprised it is not selling.

[dr galaga]

That sticker is great.  

Bought the DVD mentioned.  Received it today.  Will look at it when I get power in my neighborhood.  Thanks for the heads up.

[KreKol]

I am thinking about buying the DvD to update the CDs I have.  When ever you can please post what you think of it.