Vending machine alternative…

 

I’ve seen some comments where someone dabbled in setting up vending machines and found their area too saturated with the same idea.  This guy found an alternative in old gaming equipment –

I bought a used pinball machine, fixed it up and got it working. Then another, and another, until I had a garage full of pin ball machines. I asked the taco shop in the shopping center my frame shop was in if I could put couple of them in there, fifty fifty split. I put four of them in. I hired a pinball mechanic to do collections and keep them going for half of my cut.

I ended up clearing around four hundred bucks a month. It was great until my mechanic moved out of state. It became too much for me working on the machines and running my own business, so I pulled them out and ended up selling all of them. I had about fifteen machines or so in my garage by that time.

I only had that one location, but it was nice income while it lasted. That was about twenty years ago.

You could also rent them out for parties and events.  Another revenue channel is pinball machine repairs.

Pinball machines for sale – Google search