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I love the idea of the blanks in the machine! It's an impressively awful idea. The problem of enraging your customers is obvious of course, but an even bigger
by readams 11y ago
I love the idea of the blanks in the machine! It's an impressively awful idea. The problem of enraging your customers is obvious of course, but an even bigger issue would be if people could predict when the blanks would appear.
They'd have to randomize them. But then you might get several blanks in a row. But you could still count the total number of blanks in a particular machine like counting cards at blackjack and buy only when opportune. So you'd need to randomize them nationally. But then you'll get machines that are entirely empty and dispense only blanks on any given load!
- theseatoms 11y ago> ... an even bigger issue would be if people could predict when the blanks would appear. Recall that old-fashioned vending machines typically did not have the see-though, glass front panel.
- readams 11y agoI just meant that if they do the obvious thing and load every ninth slot as a blank, customers will know when it's safe to buy by watching other customers. Nobody would want to be the first!
- _kst_ 11y agoYou could randomize them subject to the constraint that you never have two blanks in a row. That probably would have been the responsibility of the person who loads the bottles into the machine. Even so, I agree that it's an impressively awful idea. A lot of customers would have been kids who only had one nickel.