I had a great Chicago Show.
Driving down in pouring rain sucked but as we pulled into the lot on Thursday afternoon around 4pm , the sky parted and the sun came out and warmed up to nearly 70 degrees! We had an open trailer and of course people started asking what we had.. so we started to unload a few things and selling , cause why not. it was a awesome.. we sold EVERYTHING we had brought by 6:30pm that NIGHT!!!!
went and met the group at portillos for a few hours and hung in the hotel till around 9pm and off to bed.
next day with nothing to set up or sell we were up and shopping with everying by 4:30am and ddn't find anything I needed in the AM, helped Bob find a popperette and just had a good time.
Bought a Coke Clock inside during the dealer preview that I didnt' have yet for a decent price.
The BEST part of the trip though was on Thursday night around 8pm I get an email from a guy selling a "10 cent coke machine" this was in his description,.. asking if I was interested in buying it. he had reluctantly bought it from his boss who was moving and realized he didn't want it and was going to be too much work to redo.
I emailed back for photos and or a model number figuring just some old square top or slider.... at 10pm he emailed me a picture of a Vendo 81b.
I said lets talk tomorrow (Friday) Morning.
he called me at 9am and told me the story, blah blah .. I finally asked so what do you need for it.. he said he spent $600 on it and needed to get his money back on it. so I say ok so you need $600.. he says yep..,
I ask where are you located, he said in Indiana about 1 hour south of Chicago, I say, ok that's cool, I happen to be in the Chicago area and he then says well I could meet you half way if you have cash... I said I do and sure. He said he was going to get up and go get it out of his storage and call me back with a place half way to meet.. so at 10am he calls me and says lets meet in Joliet.. by this time , I only found a clock at the show, my buddy Tom is done looking too, so we head south toward's Joliet... sorry I didn't get to say GOOD BYE to everyone still at the show, but I was on a mission!..
After finding our way to Joliet which actually took about an hour we met the guy at a gas station, we unloaded it , it looked pretty good and paid the main plus $50 for his time/gas and I had a $650.00 Vendo 81 B in the back or our empty trailer! and if course a BIG SMILE on my face (after he left)..
so overall Chicago Trip this year was great!
