Benchmark Ticket Eaters

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Location: Incredible Pizza Company, St. Louis and St. Peters locations.
I will eventually have 4 Purple Benchmark Ticket Stations for sale or trade soon.
http://www.benchmarkgames.com/game_ticketstation.htm
Our locations have gone ticketless. Each one is 4 sided with printers on each side. 2 are 4 years old and the other 2 are 2 1/2. The newer 2 have the new style cutter heads where you just pull out the 2 side pins to remove the head. They are all mostly complete. Have removed a couple unnecessary parts (laser readers-broken wires from employees just letting them drop). 1 of the sides of an older unit is currently not working. Has a broken wire to a sensor, a couple of the printers have been modified so they don't plug directly into it, the power and data plugs have been moved off-board because they broke off from the door hitting the employees when emptying the catch bags. I have been maintaining them almost all their life with what parts that are available to keep them running. I will include manuals some extra back-up parts (belts, bands, gears) with these and the parts that were removed as stated above.
If anybody is interested or knows a business that would like them, let me know.
My boss doesn't know how much he wants for them, but will probably take any reasonable offer. It might be worth it to buy one to have as back-up parts to the one you already have. I know the cutter heads alone worth $500 for each station.
Might even trade for a good working game.
Ralph
 
If you want to come by and take a look at them and make an offer, that would be great. I will ask my boss what he "wants" for them.
 
Location: Incredible Pizza Company, St. Louis and St. Peters locations.
I will eventually have 4 Purple Benchmark Ticket Stations for sale or trade soon.
http://www.benchmarkgames.com/game_ticketstation.htm
Our locations have gone ticketless.
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Ralph

I'm curious - if you don't do tickets anymore, what are you doing? Have you given up on redemption? Have you gone to one of those 'ticket vending machine' things? Have you gone to merchandiser games that redeem for themselves? Or are you doing something like putting the tickets back on the player's card?

I could see any of those being good ideas, depending on your customers.
 
I'm curious - if you don't do tickets anymore, what are you doing? Have you given up on redemption? Have you gone to one of those 'ticket vending machine' things? Have you gone to merchandiser games that redeem for themselves? Or are you doing something like putting the tickets back on the player's card?

I could see any of those being good ideas, depending on your customers.


I have been to a few places in Cali that put ticket counts on the player card. You can swipe your card at any kiosk to find out your running total.
 
I have been to a few places in Cali that put ticket counts on the player card. You can swipe your card at any kiosk to find out your running total.

Fascinating. I'd love to know what effects it has on play. I believe (but have no data) that putting money on the cards may actually increase play (because you lose that 'wow I've spent a lot' you get with a shrinking pile of change). I wonder if putting the tickets on the cards has any effect on play? I know that kids love getting a big pile of tickets - does having the tickets on the card have any effect on the attraction of redemption?
 
No tickets, children lose "instant gratification". No more "Mommie look at all the tickets I won" we tried it, fail. Tokenless, kids just swipe that card like crazy, or lose it. Goodbye $20 in tokens, and all the tickets get lost too if the card gets lost.

And to continue my rant...
I would much rather have a deltronics Muncher.
 
We are putting the tickets directly back on the game card. It really saves mega bucks each year. At my St. Louis location, we are stated to save at least $35,000 a year in the ticket cost, employee time to load the games, lots less dust to clean in games and the air, fix ticket jams, parts to fix the ticket station, paper for the ticket station, etc. We use Ideal's system. Took a while to get it up and working. On some games, the virtual dispensing of tickets are usually a lot faster than dispensing real tickets. It seems to benefit both the customer and company pretty well. I heard a lot of "Somebody stole my tickets" from a bunch of little kids, but with this system, as long as you have your card, you have your tickets.
Timmy-I will ask my boss tomorrow on what he wants for them.
 
Well guys,
My boss wants these gone again, they have just been sitting in storage rooms for over a year. So does anybody need these for a great price? Still at the same locations, just the name of the company has changed.
 
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