Passive income for Kansas City locations.
We put a collectible card vending machine in your lobby, stock it with product nobody else in town is selling, restock it ourselves, and send you a share of every sale. You are not buying a machine. You are renting out empty floor space for pure profit.
- Your cost, forever
- $0
- Of your staff's time
- 0 hrs
- Your check, every month
- 15th
Your cost, forever
Of your staff's time
Your check, every month
Collectible card vending machines in Kansas City
Kansas City is where the machine has the widest range of homes: a River Market grocer whose shoppers already read imported packaging, a Crossroads arcade bar, a family restaurant off Ward Parkway, a bowling house on the east side. We are headquartered here, which means service calls are measured in minutes rather than in whether a route happens to run that week.
- Population
- about 510,000
- County
- Jackson County
- Service distance
- our operations base is inside the city limits
Where a machine works in Kansas City
The venue types below actually exist here — we place against a city's real commercial geography rather than a template.
International grocers
River Market and the Northeast have grocers whose customers already buy Japanese, Korean and Chinese product weekly — imported card packaging reads as normal to them, not novel.
Entertainment districts
Power & Light and Westport put thousands of people on foot with time between one venue and the next, most of them inside the age range that buys cards.
Family destinations
Zoo, Union Station and Science City traffic arrives with children already in a buying mood, and parents holding a wallet they have opened three times that day.
Kansas City districts and corridors we serve
What we know about Kansas City
Kansas City proper spans two counties and more than 300 square miles, so a single machine placement is a neighbourhood decision rather than a city one. Traffic on the Plaza behaves nothing like traffic on Independence Avenue. We walk the specific address before proposing a product mix, because a Brookside restaurant and a Northeast grocer want different lanes in the machine.
What the machine holds
Sealed collectible trading card packs — Pokémon anchors the lineup, alongside Japanese, Korean and Chinese imports no store in the metro carries, plus sports and other trading card lines. Prices start at $5.99. The mix is tuned to whoever walks past your door in Kansas City, and adjusted after the first month on what actually sold.
What would it pay a Kansas City location?
Move the slider to match your foot traffic. Six sales a day is realistic for a site with steady weekend traffic.
Your revenue share: 12%
Fixed, and agreed in writing before we install.
- $2,700
- Machine gross per month
- $324
- Paid to you per month
That is about $3,888 pure profit a year from one square meter of floor space.
Estimates based on our standard product mix at a $15 average sale, not a guarantee. We give you a site-specific projection after visiting, and the share percentage goes in writing before install.
Asked by Kansas City owners
All of them, on both sides of the river. We have placed our operations base in the city, so downtown, the Plaza, Waldo, Brookside, the Northeast, the Northland and the East Side are all inside a short service run.
Independents first. A family grocer on Independence Avenue or an owner-run bowling house gets the same machine, the same product mix and the same revenue share terms as a regional chain would.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Put a Kansas City corner to work
Tell us about your space and we'll be in touch with a traffic assessment, an install plan and the product mix we would run for Kansas City customers.