vending machine mishaps

The Bollox · 07-08-2007 03:51PM #1

if you purchase something from a vending machine and it gets stuck what do you do? I ask because this happened to me just 5 mins ago. I knocked off the machine once, decided it's not really worth the hastle and walked off sulking.

I have seen people completely losing the head when it happens to them and question why they get so worked up. I mean it's only 70 / 80 cent and the purchase would have seen you farther down the fat bastard scale

super_furry · 07-08-2007 03:52PM

I shake the living **** out of the machine. Rock it back and forth so that loads of crap drops down.

zuutroy · 07-08-2007 03:52PM

buy another one of the same product and keep it for later, or eat the two if you're a hungry git.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 07-08-2007 03:53PM

Sometimes there's a phone number on them. If so, then ring up and complain. My brother did it and they sent him out a bank draft for €1!

5starpool · 07-08-2007 03:59PM

I am either in the shake the sh1t out of it or buy a second one and get the two when they drop camps. It sepends on the type of dislodgement effort that is needed.

Ruu_Old · 07-08-2007 03:59PM

zuutroy wrote:

buy another one of the same product and keep it for later, or eat the two if you're a hungry git.

Same or get lucky with someone who gives up/gets frustrated before you and you get a freebie.

Smellyirishman · 07-08-2007 04:00PM

Buy a 2nd.

zuutroy · 07-08-2007 04:03PM

How annoyed do you get when you buy a 2nd, and only the original drops down?!?!?!

5starpool · 07-08-2007 04:07PM

zuutroy wrote:

How annoyed do you get when you buy a 2nd, and only the original drops down?!?!?!

When this happens, noone uses the machine after me for a while

jester77 · 07-08-2007 04:08PM

I usually don't have the change for a 2nd bar and the odd time I do it just drops the first bar and the second one remains stuck :mad: So what I usually do is I take a nice long run with a jumping shoulder charge at the end. What either happens is that the chocolate doesn't fall and I walk away cursing and sulking with my head bowed in disdain and a very sore shoulder OR the chocolate falls and I walk a way with a huge grin on my face and the oh so sweet taste of chocolate takes away all that shoulder pain!

markpb · 07-08-2007 04:12PM

There's usually a badge on them with the name and number of the operator? Pembroke vending operated the machines in DCU when I was there and would regularly post out an apology postcard with a 50p coin (in an envelope obviously) sellotaped to it if you rang and complained.

Rb · 07-08-2007 04:35PM

Unplug it and take it home.

whiskeyman · 07-08-2007 05:22PM

Oh, how I get such much glee from finding a half balanced Toffee Crisp ready to drop once I order the one behind it, or a bag of crisps from up above...

Happened to me the odd time, and I'd just get another and save for later.
I don't understand people that just walk away though. You paid for it you fools!
It's like going into a shop, asking for a mars bar, handing over the money and then the shop assistant just staring you blankly after he's kept your dosh. Grab him and shake him for all he's worth goddamnit!!!! eh, I mean phone up the company and get yer money back...

ehem...

I-like-eggs,mmm · 07-08-2007 05:53PM

There was a great vending machine when I used to be school... it had a sensor on it, so if nothing dropped down, you got another chance- therefore 2 for 1- yaaaay!!

Or we used to get our rulers out (like a pack of savages, no doubt) and flick it up under the flap in hope to release a nice pack of hunky dory crisps

Naos · 07-08-2007 06:30PM

I used to work in a place that had vending machines.

The most efficient method I found for getting a stuck sweet out, was using my palms and hitting the top of the machine(Spot X) until it rolled back a wee bit, and just as it came forward, hit it again.

See diagram:
_____________
|--x

phasers · 07-08-2007 06:35PM

they had ones in my school that always stuck

I had a great little business of shaking the machine for people
made about a tenner a week

sunnyjim · 07-08-2007 07:04PM

Years back, I was playing in the National Concert Hall...
There was a vending machine in the players bar, beside the dressing rooms. It would drop lucozade if given enough bash. I have plenty of bash in me, so, I was coming away with tons of lucozade. Robin Hood I was!

_Kaiser_ · 07-08-2007 07:16PM

There was a drinks vending machine in my old job that every so often would spew out two cans for the price of one, but the best time was when it gave me 2 cans AND €3.50 in change back.. not bad for 80c

weemcd · 07-08-2007 07:38PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5G3am9b34

absolute fúcking classic^
thought of it instantly when i saw this thread. Brilliant ep, appreciated it on a second level after reading streetcar in class.

worst mishap was in school when you could reach in and grab anything from the bottom two rows of the machine cos it was broke. After it had been raided (2 minutes) i decided to reach for the higher levels with my ruler. Genius i thought, of course i dropped the ruler and it was stuck inside the machine with my name and class on it.

ahhh. the good aul days....

/edit why did the imbed not work? when i embedded it it just showed a white box

Terry · 07-08-2007 07:43PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5G3am9b34

ctc_celtic · 07-08-2007 08:01PM

at work on Saturday, a fella comes up and say " i put money in the vending machine but the door wont open" had to tell him that you don't open the door, you just put in the item code and it drops out.
we had a good laugh at him:D

Naos · 07-08-2007 08:12PM

He must have said that for a dare, idiot.

A way to get free cans from a machine, is to get 2/3 lads and tip the machine towards (So the buttons, coin slot etc. face the ground) until it reaches about a 30* angle. The cans fall forward and when it's positioned back upright you can collect some free cans

ctc_celtic · 07-08-2007 10:55PM

Mear wrote:

He must have said that for a dare, idiot.

no, was a man in his early 40's with 3 youngish kids. just a moron.

Timmins · 07-08-2007 10:57PM

Hahah brilliant

in 3rd year we had a complete pushover of a teacher for history so we'd regularly turn up 20minutes late for the 40minute classes with some bullshít excuse, e.g. "we couldnt' find the class"

One day anyway i tried to buy a lucozade sport from the vending machine which is in a rather secluded spot in the corridor, and nothing happened. The lads were informed, and 3 or 4 of us started shaking the shít out of it until 10+ bottles came out. The teacher didn't notice anything amiss when we finally arrived in with about 5 bottles each!

Another guy in 6th year and his friends leaned the vending machine over like you suggested, but they dropped it and the perspex on the front shattered. Suspension anyone ?

Pompey Magnus · 07-08-2007 11:31PM

A few years ago I was in a mood for a Kinder Bueno, so I went to the nearby vending machine and popped in 1 Euro, but it got stuck a few inches in, I could still see it but couldn't get it out. I then had the bright idea of dropping in a 20c coin to knock the euro in, it moved it slightly but not enough to get it to fall. I then started adding any random coins that I had in my pocket to form a chain so I could force the original euro down, and then collect them afterwards as it gives back the change. Even this didn't work, so I was left looking at about e1.50 stuck in the slot that I couldn't get out or push in and no Kinder Bueno

.

The Bollox · 07-08-2007 11:38PM

wow! you must have REALLY wanted that Kinder Bueno

Nailz · 07-08-2007 11:40PM

Yio! Another great post by the Bollox!

The Bollox · 07-08-2007 11:44PM

Nailz wrote:

Yio! Another great post by the Bollox!

don't patronise me, boy! *waggles finger menacingly*

Nailz · 07-08-2007 11:46PM

Shant I repeat my last post???

The Bollox · 07-08-2007 11:53PM

:eek: you wouldn't DARE!

I'm so tempted to quote Sam L. Jackson's 'dare you' rant from Pulp Fiction

Nailz · 07-08-2007 11:57PM

Go on, I'd like to hear that rant again... then I'll decide to dare... or NOT to dare...

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