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Vigo:
Yeah, I read about it last week, seemed like a bad business scheme to me. If home rentals made sense, amusement places would be offering this a long time ago. Dealing with 1 cab per place, having to rotate it out monthly, deliver all over San Francisco and move it into peoples homes that may or may not be cabinet friendly, deal with maintaining these and keeping a large enough inventory that customers will have choices. Making $7500 per 100 customers seems to be barely scraping together any profit, and a ton of work.

I am also guessing that the bigger issue than damage would be people gutting out the valuable parts. I just don't see the delivery guys being able to examine each machine to make sure every part is the same as when they left it.

$10 bucks says that 9 of 10 machine you would rent would smell like cat urine or worse.

Malenko:
I think its a great idea, if the KI board dies in my KI I rent one from them, swap the boards then demand a refund because their board stopped working!



please note, I'd never do this, but I know other people would.

Xiaou2:

I was wondering how they would make money, when the delivery fees would cost a boatload...  they I read this page:

https://www.allyoucanarcade.com/join

 Ugg.


Fursphere:

--- Quote ---All you have to do is take a photo of your game, write a brief description of it and upload it to our website. Once your game is added to the site, simply select the neighborhoods you'd like to deliver to, as well as when you'd like to run your route and our customers will rent your games from you. After a month, you pick up your game, inspect it to make sure that it's in the condition that you delivered it in and we send you a check.

Advantages to using our system include

A 75% payout for all revenue received
A deposit on hand. in case your games get damaged
Your games are sitting in private residences instead of public locations
Reliable income that doesn't fluctuate each month
A convenient scheduling system to help you be more efficient with your route.
A 75% payout for all revenue received
--- End quote ---

Umm.  Umm.  Ya, I got nothin....

Is $56/m a decent return on a routed machine these days?  (assuming its not in an amusement park / extremely high trargeted traffic area)

JDFan:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on July 23, 2013, 04:12:05 pm ---
I was wondering how they would make money, when the delivery fees would cost a boatload...  they I read this page:

https://www.allyoucanarcade.com/join

 Ugg.

--- End quote ---

LOL -- like anyone is gonna rent out their decent quality machines including delivery, setup and pick up, maintenance and all for $55 a month ($75 - 20 fee to the company) - Don't see it happening ( I don't know of many people that would even rent it to a good friend or family for that kind of $ ) - esp considering there's no insurance or anything in case one of the clients just decides to move and take the machine with them during that month (can't see any insurance company providing a policy to cover a rental machine for damage cheaply - and they'd probably make that payment come out of the 75% you collect if you wanted it)

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