You’re looking for a fully restored antique soda machine and as an example, you have decided on a Vendo 81 or Cavalier 72 soda machine. You have surfed the Internet and found a restoration company with a Vendo 81 or a Cavalier 72 for sale for $7,000 or $8,000. You have chosen the best restoration possible. It appears from the company’s website that the company has several fully restored Vendo 81’s and Cavalier 72’s ready to ship. You decide to give them a call and make an attempt to order your machine and have it shipped. Sounds great! The first person that answers the phone is a secretary who forwards your call to a salesman. This salesman explains to you that it will be 60 days till they can ship your machine. He just so happens to have an unrestored machine in his warehouse. He wants a deposit on this machine now. You order your machine and send him the money he requested. As soon as he hangs up the phone with you, he takes your money and purchases for you on the internet a soda machine for you.. He will obviously purchase the least expensive rust bucket he can find because the money he saves here goes into his pocket. Chances are he is not providing you with a photo history of your machine’s restoration so that there can be no comparison of the machine you purchased to the restored machine you will receive.
Our company’s very best in the world restoration available today on a Vendo 81 machine costs $4,000. The restoration on a Cavalier 72 costs $4,000. Normally on eBay, a real nice Vendo 81 can be purchased for around $1,800. The most expensive unrestored Vendo 81 I’ve seen sold for around $2,500 on the Internet. Normally a nice Cavalier 72 will sell for around $1,000 to $1,400 on eBay.
Let’s do the math. A Vendo 81 soda machine purchased from eBay for you by a salesman using your money costs you after restoration $7,000. A Vendo 81 soda machine purchased from eBay by you with your money will cost you ($1,800 + $4,000) $5,800 after a restoration from us. A Cavalier 72 soda machine purchased from eBay by you with your money costs you NOT $7,000 but around $5,000 after our best in the world restoration. If you had allowed the other company to purchase both machines for you using your money, you would have allowed them to put $3,800 extra dollars in their pocket.
Here is where our company comes in. The first thing we need to do is locate a Vendo 81 or Cavalier 72 on eBay for you to purchase. We are a buyer on eBay and you can be a buyer if you are not already. You have located the machine you wish to purchase. It has a wonderful cabinet with no rust and all its original parts, tags and refrigeration. After your Internet purchase, we can help you with your shipping. This way, we are working together as a team and not bidding against each other. Now that you have won the auction and paid for your unrestored machine, Antiquities Vending Company can locate a shipper for you free of charge. The shipper will bring your new purchase to a dock near our company and we will dispatch a truck to retrieve your soda machine. The machine will be given the best-in-the-world restoration by our company and you will receive regular photo updates before and during the restoration process. All that is left to do is for us to cover and crate the machine and ship it to your door. You are the proud owner of a Vendo 81 with a best-in-the-world restoration, and you have $1,200 extra dollars in your pocket to purchase one of those cool reproduction yellow-wheeled popcorn wagons to set in the room next to your soda machine. Remember, had you selected a Cavalier 72, your savings would have been at least $2,000.
These are just two examples of machines readily available for purchase on the Internet. Your actual options are seemingly endless.
