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> Every person on earth has a story about how a vending machine failed them. Can you give an example? Because I have a hard time remembering if a vending machi
by noAnswer 4y ago
> Every person on earth has a story about how a vending machine failed them.
Can you give an example? Because I have a hard time remembering if a vending machine ever failed on me. Even the ones in school, with lots of rough teenage boys, always worked. There were ticket machines that stood out in the open that had a hard time accepting EC/Geldkarte. One needed to insert the bank card up to six times. But that was 20 years ago.
And ok, one could say the UI on the touchscreen driven ticket machines form Deutsche Bahn (German railway) was a fail! But they still printed a ticket. (They where introduced ~15 years ago. I booked online ever since. No idea if they are still bad. The machines before that, if you where a regular, you cold buy a ticket in 10 seconds.)
- toast0 4y agoI had one in the past couple months not give me change. I was going to buy a snack and a drink, but after the drink machine stole $0.25, I wasn't going to give the neighboring snack machine a chance. I also remember a time where I bought a snapple from the drinks machine at my community college, and it was vended, but got stuck on the way down. Of course, passerby tried to help by shaking the machine and all sorts of other products came out. Net loss for the vendor, but I didn't get my preferred drink :( That last one was at least 20 years ago, but it sticks in mind... that's probably part of the problem, we don't generally remember the times things went right, only when they went wrong, and I couldn't even hazard a guess at how many times I successfully used a vending machine.