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Bubbles, Contrary to some on this forum, I don't check the posts every day. But we are here now. In the early building of the Half-Pint vendor, we were told by the manufacturer of the Sensit II system that the "eyes" that see the products drop were not sensitive to direct sunlight. That...

Over the past year we have offered some older vendors that are refurbished and updated and will give years of service to operators. Some have come from washes that we sold to years ago and others have been purchased from the used vendor market. They are very hard to find because vending...

We are receiving new improvements and benefits in the Sensit-3 computers that control the new vendors. A new option and benefit in doing the accounting for the coinage in the vendor is an option under "Accounting" that allows the operator to track the cash box value by coin and by total money...

e-Port Fee Schedule Hey Ric, PM me your email address and I will send you an email with the fee schedule attached. Uncle Sam:)

Bob Roman, I have to agree with rph that the recession is a contributing factor, but not the reason for the poor attendee numbers at the recent CCWE. As an exhibitor the preliminary numbers for the show were "lousy", so exhibitors were reacting to the poor numbers by cutting back on booth...

The ICA Board and the Staff have to understand that exhibitors have many more advertising avenues than the traditional trade magazines and publications they had a few years ago. The internet with company web-sites, Forums, email blasts, Google, and Blogs are available now at almost zero costs...

We received an email on May 21 from the ICA signed by Eric Wulf, CEO, reporting the “numbers” pertinent to the recent show. Total attendance: 5512 Percentage “buyers”: 68% Total car wash sites represented: 5924 Total Exhibitors: 305 Total Exhibit Space sold : 125,050 sq ft It went on...

My good friend Harry @ HappyCarz showed me his fancy new phone at the recent CCWE in Las Vegas. On it he found an ad by USA Technologies offering the e-Port credit card reader at no cost to a user. After some further inquiries into this ad, the truth finally was made clear about this program...

My own take is that you can search on eBay for "Car Wash Equipment" and "Used Car Wash Equipment and get 15-25 items listed for sale anytime you try. There is also the AutoCareForum "Classifieds" to do the same thing. I have used eBay for over a year now to get specific equipment I want and...

The vendor in Florida that was for sale and posted above is no longer available for purchase. The seller has moved it and put it to use in another site. Thanks to those who expressed an interest in this vendor. Be patient and check back now and then because others may come onto the market...

We have had some time to analyze the results of our exhibiting at the ICA show and to email thanks to the many attendees that came by our booth to see our new products and/or talk to us. All things considered we had a very good show with some vendor sales, well qualified leads, and the solving...

I know I have seen a number is past years, but I can not remember it. I also did a search on this forum and can find nothing. Does any one remember a number or estimate or know a source for this? Thanks. Uncle Sam :)

We have posted and published in magazine articles for many years promoting the premise that a well designed ShurVend Vending Center that is located in the vacuum area of a self serve car wash site can produce very close to the same monthly income as a single car wash bay or 2-4 (or more) vacuums...

One of our customers built a car wash along a highway in 2005 and now finds that he is in the middle of a cloverleaf that the authorities want to build to handle the traffic that is there now. So my customer's wash was taken by eminent domain and he has to close. He has until May 30, 2010 to...

I tried to have a scheduled chat time of 1 hour when Bill first tried this format some years ago. With a 3 hour difference in time zones for forum people, it is not easy to pick a time when all parties are available. It didn't work for me when I tried it the first time, but it might do OK now...

The newer S3 control boards in our ShurVend vendors allows the programming of the refrigeration system and the LED lights (See LED retrofit post below) to be turned off or dimmed to save energy use in the vendor. This EnergySensit system records the activity patterns of the vendor, then adjusts...

We are constantly being reminded that energy can be saved by getting rid of existing lighting fixtures and installing CFLs or LEDs. (The CFLs I see may use less energy, but do not light up anything very well!!) Our vendor manufacturer has responded by providing the option of installing LED...

The tokens that are used by the chain and in the acquired wash were both bi-metal so we tested them in the Mars and the Coinco. The Mars could not read one of the bi-metal tokens. So we tried them in the Coinco Guardian which we could program to accept both of them. Problem solved?? Not...

We recently had a customer (a well know chain operation) that was taking over an existing wash in another city with its own token already in place and with a ShurVend unit already accepting that token. The new owners had their own token that was used in all of their washes, so they wanted to...

Should read "many exhibitors don't have a chance to penetrate the market