If you've decided to start a vending route or add machines to your current vending business, it's important to know what kind of vending machines you should buy and buying vending machines requires making important decisions. With the many different types and styles of vending machines on the market today, choosing the best vending machine to purchase can be a difficult decision. Not only are you bombarded with an abundance of advertisements both online and in newspapers, but many forums and blogs are filled with false information that will make one's headreelswimwhirl and complicate your research. I'm referring here to blogs and forum posts that are created by schemers in an attempt to mislead and persuade you into purchasing defective or otherwise unprofitable vending machines.  On top of it all the many different types, styles, and functions of vending machines has proliferated.  

In the midst of it all reverting to the basics and looking to the experts is best. Bulk candy vending machines and gum ball vending machines are possibly the best known and most popular vending machines in existence and have many benefits over other types of vending machines which ideal for starting a vending route or adding to your small business.

As I said, there are many advantages to the vending business owner to owning bulk candy and gum ball vending machines.  For purposes of brevity I'll limit myself to just four:

1. Reliability and Durability: Bulk candy and gumball vending machines are entirely mechanical vending machines that vend different candies or gum balls.  Being entirely mechanical, bulk candy vending machines are incredibly reliable and easy to service and maintain.  
2. Easiest To Place: Second, bulk candy and gum ball vending machines are easier to place than most other vending machines.  It's not easy to see why this is the case.  Where as most vending machines, such as snack and soda vending machines, are large, taking up valuable floor space, most bulk candy and gum ball vending machines are relatively small and compact vending machines.  They can be placed on countertops or set on stands, either way they don't take up very much space.  
3. Energy efficiency:  The third benefit of bulk candy and gumball vending machines further supports the second, above.  According to E-Source, an energy consulting group refrigerated beverage machines consumed 7 to 12 kilowatt-hours per day, amounting to something between $200 and $500 dollars a year.  When you take into account the 2.5 million beverage vending machines in America the combined annual cost is estimated to be between $500 million and $1.25 billion (Segrave, 231).  No business owner wants to pay for an increase in his or her electricity bill so that you can profit off of having your vending machine placed in their location.  Nor do you want to pay for the power, or let it figure into your negotiations with owners of the businesses you want to get you vending machines in.  And considered from an environmentalist standpoint, mechanical bulk vending machines are certainly the way to go.
4. High Markups: The last benefit I'll mention here is the high markups delivered by bulk candy and gumball vending machines in comparison to other vending machines, such as snack and soda vending machines, DVD kiosk vending machines, coffee vending machines, etc.  Gross margins in the bulk candy vending business can be quite high and on average surpass the markups offered by other types of vending machines by huge amounts.

Segrave, K.  Vending Machines: An American Social History.  MicFarland: 2002.

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