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Is it an option to ask the person who sold us the vending machine to
kindly sell us one in working condition?<br>
-Claudia<br>
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On 1/16/2011 7:37 PM, Snail wrote:
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<div class="im">On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Adam Fritzler <span
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(and, perhaps, the thought that the old method of<br>
exchanging donations for soda was a bit more transparent
than a<br>
hulking glowing mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring black box)<br>
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Sadly, we shifted from people unreliably leaving money for drinks
to machines unreliably dispensing drinks for money. :/<br>
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I heard people who counted the turn-out from the honors system
complained that not enough people were leaving enough money to
restock the fridge -- but I'm not 100% certain this hearsay is
fact. I never took drinks from the fridge because it never had
anything I wanted to drink. [Not counting tastebridge offering me
kombucha where I tossed money in the tastebridge jar specifically.
Having someone watching you take the drink makes you feel more
obliged to offer money, but for other reasons that social pressure
kept me from trying anything from tastebridge for a long time ...
but now I'm getting off track.]<br>
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Is the machine still more likely to give drinks than people are
likely to leave cash for drinks? I guess that's the bottom line
here on whether or not people will keep using it.<br>
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Anyone is still welcome to stock the fridge and run an honors
system for soda -- I think you'll just be stuck with a constant
restocking fee, which is why I won't volunteer to donate drinks to
it. Too many people who can't/won't leave money and not enough
social pressure to keep you out of the fridge if you're poor/a
jerk. Something like tastebridge only got positive returns [or so
Frantisek told me it was paying itself back] because it had people
standing in front of the tip jars watching you, which was enough
to keep poor folk like me from taking food when they had no money
to donate and were too shy to help in the kitchen. :)<br
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