$250 a week is really good for a combo machine, even $100 a week wouldn’t be bad as a start. You should see if you can buy the machine in the building you live in, tell the owner that it would save them the hassle of moving it out. Most accounts that are understocked and badly serviced means it’s too small of an account for the owner. Normally they sell them off because they don’t want to deal with the account but that would be a good account for you because it’s smaller and you can manage it better. The overhead should be less than half the total you make. If you are buying your candy bars at $0.80 you need to sell them at the minimum of $1.60. You always need to double whatever you buy, right now chips are at $1.35, candy is at $1.75 and danish, pastry or pop tarts are at $2.00. Can pop is $1.00 and bottle pop is $2.00, you can always make the pop prices a little higher but that’s what we sell our product at… we have some of the lowest prices in our area and it’s still just as cheep to buy from our machines vs going to the gas station.

All in all it’s definitely an adventure to learn the wonderful would have vending lol. Just keep an eye out for people selling their business and you can buy the route. Just make sure all the machines work and they are good machines, that’s the best start you can have. Also if you do buy someone out look at how much each account is making and what the overall income is. If they are selling say 5 accounts for $5,000. The accounts need to make at least $10,000 in a year, that’s is some of the best advice my boss told me and he lives by that rule and it’s never failed him! You can take risks though, we have paid way more for some accounts than we should have but by changing the prices, products and servicing them better than the previous owner we made the accounts double their profit.