Sint-niklaas
Quoted from RonSS:I get the traditional costs for moving, set up, maintenance. I also understand that these machines are making NOTHING at the moment. What hasn't been mentioned is that in the past if you owned/rented a game MANY people would get the chance to flip it; not just family.
IMHO, I would think $150/mo would be a fair amount (rented to a Pinsider that probably won't mess your game up).
Of course, I would assume 2 month minimum, and travel within say 50 miles.
Either way, this is a good opportunity to break into the home vending market if your traditional locations are closed indefinitely.
Renting a game for 150$ a month and you're saying MANY people beside family can flip it.
If the game gets for example 500 plays, this means 350 games are not being paid if you normally have it set at 1$ game/play.
So the game will wear out faster for earning less money....
And 500 plays when being locked up for Corona is only around 16 games a day which is not a lot of play though.
I'm an operator but at this rate I would rather have my game earning nothing instead of peanuts since it's not worth the trouble to move, wear out, potential damage to the game etc.
Not to be negative but as a business it's difficult to turn a profit when renting pinball games.
We've stopped renting less than 3 games at a time on the side of our operator business since it was not worth the time.
