[joelhaus]

My father leases/finances equipment and occasionally gets the used machines back after the term expires. Was thinking that a website positioning the vending machines as a great learning tool for kids would be an interesting way to sell them. Depending on the popularity, I imagine you might even be able to build some web applications that would help the kids manage and find locations for the machines (a sort of marketplace for machine owners and location owners). There's the possibility of upgrading the machines and even adding NFC support to older ones too.

Am looking into how many machines I can get my hands on now...

[joelhaus]

It turns out that they don't lease vending machines, but he does have connections with manufacturers. Feel free to reach out if anyone is interested.