become legal. Millions are lost yearly
in this state through crooked legisla
tors, etc., not seeing over their noses,
to make them legal.
“ My greatest grief is slugs, thugs,
and lousy loafers around. More so o f
certain o w n e r s and attendants at
places where they consider all vending
o f money machines as illegal.
“ A solution I have to offer fo r this
g rief and what I have done to over
come it is slugproof, stronger and
more simpler mechanisms and machine
designs and less crooked officers and
legalization o f machines.
“ Coin machine makers and owners,
etc., must all unite to force public
opinion to see the light o f legalization
o f these machines. You can keep them
illegal forever, yet they will play them.
Arouse public opinion to the g ra ft and
cut officers and legislators get, which
robs the taxpayer and player would
do more to force the issue than any
thing else and the hypocrisy o f most
church men who are not broadminded
enough to see the evils, or who see,
yet believe deep in their hearts they
are right, when they are hypocrites
at heart.”
Likens of W ash. W ants Better
Units and More Cooperation
“ There are approximately 2,800 coin
operated m a c h in e s being operated
here.
I do not say that we have
reached a point o f saturation, but I
do not believe that new designs o f the
type o f machines we are now placing
on location will materially increase
the play o f coin machines.
“ It looks as though pin games have
reached their peak and are on the de
cline. The future will see them receiv
ing less patronage from the playing
public. There is always a wholesome
increase o f business when new num
bers o f revolutionary design are pro
duced. While new types o f games al
ways stimulate play ,the life o f games
now is very much shorter. They do
not hold their appeal on location, be
cause the public is continually clamor
ing for the newest and the latest in
coin machines.
“ My big g rief is with poor mechan
ical units and a lack o f cooperation
from manufacturers, who in time will
kill their goose which is laying the
golden egg.
“ My individual g rie f is nil compared
to the trouble with manufacturers.
They have their troubles too, but a
little more thought fo r the operators,
after they have bought equipment,
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August, 1937
will go a long way in helping them
out.
The operator often buys his
equipment and when it is received, it
has some broken parts, or is not work
ing perfectly. That causes him trouble
and delays, especially after he has
promised a location owner a game for
a certain time. Each little repair
which it is necessary to make on a
new machine just makes one more
delay in getting that machine out on
location where it can earn money for
the operator.”
“ The American public will patron
ize coin machines more in the future,
if allowed to by law.
“ My biggest problem is chain stores
trying to run the coin machine in-
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Both large and small.
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BUREL A N D C O M P A N Y
679 O r le a n s S t.
Raevans of Pennsylvania
Bothered by Moochers
• .
“ My most pressing problem is with
moochers and other operators offer
ing location owners more commission
than I can afford.
“ Moochers I ignore altogether. I
do not give samples to anyone. As
to other operators that offer larger
commissions I have only the argu
ment that they must handle inferior
merchandise, or expect to make up
the difference in some underhanded
manner. I try to sell the location
owner on my service, quality and
friendship. I seldom loose a location
fo r this reason if I get established
but I do lose a lot the first week or
two because o f the suspicion created
in their minds by these tactics. I al
ways try to use a different kind o f
merchandise than any other operator
who may already have a machine on
that location.
“ The greatest trouble maker in the
Merchandise Vending Field is the
fa ct that any manufacturer will sell
anyone a machine and there are too
many in the business that only oper
ate a few machines and do not make
it their main business, consequently
they feel they can pay larger com
missions and vend more merchandise
than we who make it a business and
so they are constantly making it
hard. W hat we need is an associa
tion and a uniform commission. Manu
facturers should not sell to outsiders
without them first becom ing members
o f the association. O f course the
association would have to include the
few part time machine operators, but
through this means the bad competi
tion could be eliminated.”
W ells of N. Car. Has Trouble
with Merchant Associations
“ New designs o f the same type o f
machine will not stimulate play. W e
need new completely different things
to play with.
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