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SS with free vacs?

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Crommel62

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Has anyone thought about offering free vacs for SS bay users if the customers spends $5 or so. I'm not very technical, but I'm sure something could count the pulses up to the $5 mark then offer to dispense a free token. I think this could really be a hit, but probably wouldn't be worth the expense. The only way I could see doing it is using the Carolina pride token dispenser in each bay and that over $2k per bay. Any thoughts? Free vacs seem to make all the difference in the EE sector
 
I do believe this topic has been discussed a few times....have you tried to do a search to find the older post on this and the flat fee gated entrance business model.
 
I like the gated model. I've been leasing one since late February. This is a low volume site but requires very little time to manage. Will kill your IBA sales though if you have one.
 
Crommel62 said:
Has anyone thought about offering free vacs for SS bay users if the customers spends $5 or so. I'm not very technical, but I'm sure something could count the pulses up to the $5 mark then offer to dispense a free token. I think this could really be a hit, but probably wouldn't be worth the expense. The only way I could see doing it is using the Carolina pride token dispenser in each bay and that over $2k per bay. Any thoughts? Free vacs seem to make all the difference in the EE sector
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We have a 5 and 1 and we added the free vac tokenss to the top 2 washes about 3 years ago and it has been an interesting education.We have not however offered them to the self serve users. Our experience has been that only a small percentage of users actually use the tokens. We MAY get about 5% of the tokens back and have 3 of the 6 vacs at our place set up to receive tokens and quarters. We just ordered another 2000 tokens at .06 cents each and this equals 12000 tokens purchased in 3 years. I dont know what our customers are doing with the tokens but I would not do this again. We just put a new razor in the acw and when the new signs come in we are only going to offer it to the top wash.
 
CGCW said:
We have a 5 and 1 and we added the free vac tokenss to the top 2 washes about 3 years ago and it has been an interesting education.We have not however offered them to the self serve users. Our experience has been that only a small percentage of users actually use the tokens. We MAY get about 5% of the tokens back and have 3 of the 6 vacs at our place set up to receive tokens and quarters. We just ordered another 2000 tokens at .06 cents each and this equals 12000 tokens purchased in 3 years. I dont know what our customers are doing with the tokens but I would not do this again. We just put a new razor in the acw and when the new signs come in we are only going to offer it to the top wash.
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That's interesting. Does anyone know the percentage of EE washers that actually use the free vacs? We are going to try to figure out a way to make it an option. Offer it up for free on the top wash but make them push a button to get it.
 
Our top wash is our best seller and 25% of people dont realize there getting a free vac token or dont care. Of the other 75% that get the token less than 10% ever use them. We have had some customers joke about throwing away an entire ash tray full of them? We are constantly ordering tokens.
 
CGCW said:
Our top wash is our best seller and 25% of people dont realize there getting a free vac token or dont care. Of the other 75% that get the token less than 10% ever use them. We have had some customers joke about throwing away an entire ash tray full of them? We are constantly ordering tokens.
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If I built another wash I would not offer this option unless I had a close competitor that was.
 
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