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Vending Locator
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Finding a quality vendor locator to assist you with placing your vending machines, can be beneficial. It can also be a nightmare if you don’t carefully choose who you work with. Many of them are looking for a way to make money, and they use your desperation to find quality locations to place your machines in order to do it. The number of scams involving vendor locator services have increased in recent years, so even if you are a wise business person you need to proceed with caution.
The best advice I can give you is to look carefully evaluate any vendor locator before you sign any contracts, and definitely before you give them any money. If they pressure you to hurry and make a decision because they have other vendors wanting the locations, call their bluff. Any time you feel pressured to sign a contract or to pay money, you should see it as a red flag.
You will find there isn’t too much information to be found online about finding a quality vending locator. This means you are going to have to get busy finding the information on your own. Why is it so hard to find such information online when you can find the answers to most anything else?
The answer is simple – there just aren’t that many vending locator services that are legitimately offered out there. Realistically, it is possible to make a significant amount of money with vending machines, but you have to have them in prime locations. If the information that a vending locator is offering you sounds too good to be true, chances are it is.
There are plenty of excellent locations out there for vending machines, but you are going to have to put some effort into discovering them. Look past the obvious locations where vending machines already exist. The number of vending machines you have available isn’t nearly as important as the quality of their locations. You don’t want the vending machine just sitting there taking up space. Chances are you have plenty of money invested in the vending machines as well as the products in them.
If you do come across a quality vending locator, make sure you know exactly what they can offer you. This includes the timeframe in which they can deliver the quality locations for you. It is a good idea to pay at the time when you get the information on the locations. This way it eliminates the risk of them taking your money and running.
Before you commit to working with any vending locator, make sure you have thoroughly investigated the company. Never provide any money to them unless you have all the information in writing. Make sure you pay with a check or money order so there is a record of your transaction. You don’t want to get scammed by a vending locator so it is worth it to find out all of the information you can and then make an informed decision.
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Ever sine we published our first vending book a few years ago, we have been bombarded with readers and their locating horror stories
It is disheartening to see how many unsuspecting, eager new vending owners are totally devistated by their dealings with unethical vending locating companies.
A little insider information is usually all that stands between a frustrating vending locating company situation, and an agreement that puts the power in the hands of the vending machine owner.
We searched high and low to find a legitimate resource to recommend to our previous readers. We wanted to find a resource that would teach new operators what information they needed to know to protect themselves from vending locating scams, and the information they need to start to find locations themselves. We couldn't find a single resource we could endorse!
Find out the ONE LITTLE THING that was missing from ALL the resources we evaluated!
After starting out our vending adventure completely the wrong way, we turned lemons into lemonade and worked for years to build a large, profitable, full time vending company. To read more of that adventure, why we wrote our first vending book, and why that FORCED us to write this to warn people about vending locating problems, (click here)
Rob Farnham
(veteran vending company owner and author of "Locating Vending Locations")
(Don't make the same mistakes we did! Of course, feel free to make your own new ones!)
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