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The economic downturn over the past year has refocused our attention on the smallest detail in the building of our small, 18-selection Junior vending system so we can produce this vendor at the lowest cost possible. We have effectively cut down the time needed to build this machine by utilizing...

I recently heard (and then read) a piece that hit my ?Hot Button? concerning our attitude towards events that happen to each one of us as we go through life. The attitude which we assume and project, whether things are going good or going badly, is a CHOICE that we make each and every day. We...

Vendor Damage update This is an update on the damaged Visi-Combo (refrigerated) vendor that was dumped on its face sometime during the delivery phase to the customer. The security cage was bent up at the roof level and had a few scratches on the outside, but we were able to repair it and have...

The Vantage bill validator is supposed to be more resistant to water and the conditions in a wash bay. Is anyone using these in the bays and how is it working out? Uncle Sam :confused:

We just received information from Coinco announcing the VR6 Recycler which can be retrofitted to the new Coinco Vantage bill validator. Rather than the round drum on the back of the bill validator chassis which Mars uses to store the 30 bills, the Coinco bill recycler stacks 30 bills vertically...

Auto Vend Plus Info I offer this post as current and valuable information to fellow forum readers about the Auto Vend Plus vendor and have no intentions of bashing any competitor at all. Bill does not permit it and I don?t do it. The Auto Vend Plus vendor is made by Fawn and is the latest...

MEP, Not only do we try to do that each time, there is a yellow 8 1/2 X 11 piece of paper on each shipment telling people to inspect before signing! Uncle Sam

The above post may sound like we were "preaching to the choir", but we are in the middle of a damaged vendor situation right now. Arrangements were made with the freight company to have our vendor delivered during a 2-hour time frame during business hours. The freight company did not show up...

John, The latest word from the USA Tech sales people is that the Edge unit will have "pulse" capability in late summer. I sure hope so! Uncle Sam

The survey also concludes that an increase in the vend price over a $1 threshold for a selection will see a decline in sales for that selection if the vendor is a “cash only” machine. (I’m not sure that is true in a car wash vendor, but I will accept their conclusion) After installing a credit...

USA Technologies, the company that manufactures and does the processing for the e-Port and the new e-Port EDGE (Both wireless) credit card system that we use, did a survey in 2008 of the over 50,000 units in the many channels (Military, Education, Entertainment, Workplace, Retail) of vending...

John, This is only MDB for the vendor industry, but there are people in the industry that are trying to get this working on 24 vac pulse that we all use in the vacs and bays. It is just a matter of time. Uncle Sam

Ain?t technology great!!! A new e-Port credit card system has just been released called the ?EDGE? and will be available in the first weeks of June from USA Technologies. This will be a magnetic stripe only card reader that combines the reader and controller into one unit and installs into the...

We have a new Mini-Vending Kit that can be installed in new vendors or retrofit into our older vendors. I see in the catalogs that Car Freshener is packaging small 2 oz pump sprays that get lost in the fragrance tree columns that we would normally put them into. This new product will make...

There are instructions on a YELLOW SHEET OF PAPER on every vendor that we ship asking that you, the customer, unwrap and inspect the delivered vendor carefully before you sign off on the Bill of Lading (BOL). If you or your people don’t take the time to inspect the delivery and sign off without...

accepting bills plus coins/tokens, allowing credit card purchases and other cashless systems, allowing the operator to vend gift cards, VIP cards, token packs, token note packs, and the vending of almost any vending product that you can get into the machine. How does the ShurVend electronic...

When exhibiting at the shows we sometimes see ?sticker shock? on the faces (minds) of operators or hear it over the phone when we are discussing the benefits of the ShurVend electronic vending systems and the pricing. For some reason operators find the ?lump sum? investment in our electronic...

I don?t like the term ?glass-front?, but it has been used for many years to differentiate between the old drop shelf box vendors and the newer systems. The word "glass" may automatically and sub-consciously bring to an operator?s mind some security concerns for the vendor at a wash site. The...

Kirb, I received some info on pricing and availability of the Mars VN2700 validator and the recycler unit from my supplier. The VN2702U5M validator should be available in a few weeks with the price tag of $375-$400. The recycler plug-in for this validator will not be available until about...

Some of you may not know or even heard of the term ?Dutch Auction? which an auction system used in the Netherlands (Holland) to sell flowers. In this system the price of an item to be sold is set at a high asking price and then is lowered in a predetermined time frame until a buyer is found...