No DramaBuyer guide · Vending & arcade
The hard part is the product itself: card packs are thin, light and valuable, so a spiral built for chocolate bars drops two at once or none, and a glass front full of sealed booster boxes invites a crowbar.
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Ask whether the lanes are narrow-pitch spirals, push plates or a conveyor, and whether the pitch fits a single pack. A drop sensor alone does not stop a double vend. Ask for a video with packs of your size.
Single packs, blister packs, booster boxes and graded cards in slabs need different lanes. Ask how many lanes of each size the cabinet carries, and whether trays can be refitted later.
Ask for laminated or tempered glass, a steel frame, a multi-point lock and a door or tilt alarm through telemetry. Stock value per cabinet is closer to a jeweller's case than a snack machine.
Some cabinets carry a camera at the delivery bin. Ask where footage is stored and for how long; recording customers in the EU brings GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, duties to you.
Prices of sealed products move with the market. Ask whether you can change prices per lane remotely and see which lanes sell out first.
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Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.
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| Require this | A pass looks like |
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| Vend every lane empty with your own packs, thinnest format first. | Exactly one pack per paid sale in every lane, with no bent or torn packs. |
| Change a lane price remotely and buy from it. | The new price shows on screen and is charged within the time the supplier stated. |
| Force the door and tilt the cabinet with telemetry connected. | The lock holds and an alarm reaches your account. |
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Buy a smart locker vending system where each slab sits behind its own door and nothing drops.
Buy a capsule toy vending machine. It is simpler, needs no power in its basic form, and suits low prices.
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We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.
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Every machine we source in this area is on the Vending & arcade page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.
Straight answers
Judge the cabinet, not the origin: compare lane pitch, front strength and remote pricing, and ask every supplier for a vend video with your own packs.
Single-pack vend in every lane, lane plan against the drawing, glass type, lock and alarm, camera settings, remote pricing, reader model and importer details on the plate.
A Declaration of Conformity for machinery, low voltage and EMC or radio, an EN 60335-2-75 report, and the technical file behind them. A CE logo on a photo proves nothing.
The EU business that first places it on the market, usually you when you buy direct. Your name and address go on the machine or its documents.
Contact
Send a machine, a quotation you want checked, or a question. We reply with what we would look at first.
Sent
A person reads every message. You will hear back within one working day.
Not sent
Please email info@nodramachina.com directly and we will pick it up from there.