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« on: June 18, 2012, 07:09:57 pm »

I'll start...I'll start....Here's one idea that ranks up there with "pay by the foot"  toilet paper dispensers .. tounge I'd just open the bottle with the lower lip on the opener area...next time, selling Ice to Eskimos',  stay tuned!  laugh


http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-Coin-OP-Bottle-Opener-4-Vending-Machine-Coca-Cola-Vendo-Pepsi-soda-Dispenser-/251086463689?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a75eb62c9
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2012, 07:19:06 pm »

I was at the auction last week for this item...the suggested opening bid was $25 and I was willing to go that high, just because it was unique...and then it went for crazy $$$. I think he paid $170 for it...I had no idea there was other people more willing to throw even crazier $$$ at it. Blows my mind
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2012, 07:27:02 pm »

I saw that.  I'd be in up to $100.00.  Something unique to talk about.  But it is up there in the stupidest machines...
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2012, 07:30:17 pm »

I am in for $300  These are rare.
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2012, 06:24:29 am »

Remember when it was a dime to use a restroom? Thank goodness someone made that illegal.  Speaking of dumbest vending, anyone remember these on family trips in the 1960's and 70's?  Hard to beleive it, but tens of thousands of these were sold.

http://www.retrothing.com/2007/06/magic_fingers_v.html

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« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2012, 07:21:56 am »

Remember when it was a dime to use a restroom? Thank goodness someone made that illegal.  Speaking of dumbest vending, anyone remember these on family trips in the 1960's and 70's?  Hard to beleive it, but tens of thousands of these were sold.

http://www.retrothing.com/2007/06/magic_fingers_v.html

Magic Fingers

Heck yeah - I remember family road trips from the 70's.   I remember bugging the heck out of my parents for a quarter - better than that space ship or pony ride outside the grocery store!
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« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2012, 11:25:44 am »

Yeah, I remember them.  Often wondered how a vibrating bed would put you to sleep.  However, it may be stimulating for other reasons...

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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2012, 11:31:25 am »

I'd like to smack the guy who came up with charging for air at petrol stations
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« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2012, 12:06:41 pm »

One vintage machine I would love to get my hands on (a child of the 70's myself) would be one of the Mold-o-rama vending machines.   They were at every zoo, museum, aquarium, amusement park that I went to as a kid.   Something about the God awful stink of the thing when it first came out and handing a child a piping hot wax figurine just felt so wrong.................ah how times have changed
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« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2012, 02:18:52 pm »

I love it.  I will  be bidding.  I will put it right next to my Vendo coin changer.

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