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Originally Posted by alias
ASM, people let you place the machines for free? Interesting.. .
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Realized I quoted you to reply then spaced it after my van rant.
As always many of the smaller candy machines work the whole charity angle. You join up with St. Jude's, American Cancer Society, etc. They give you the stickers and such to put on your machines. Some even have little signs that are made especially for vending machines so attachment is very easy.
The business owner can technically write it off for being there as I have been told - looking into that now but would never offer them tax advice anyways.
Then as the machine owner/operator you send in a monthly fixed donation to the organization you have chosen. It actually feels a bit scammy though as they just want a dollar a month per machine to participate. I mean I do get the whole thought process that they are probably on tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of machines. It just still feels cheap. Especially when those donations are tax deductible.
Business wise I will have no qualms about giving up percentages, even on charity machines. I have this driving issue to reach a certain total of places machines that would guarantee enough turn over inventory wise that I can qualify for free shipping or other bulk discounts which helps the margins on all of the machines.