Worked in vending for years. You ain't gonna profit off one machine in most cases. Unless you are in a prime location, buying 10 different cases of chips and then trying to sell the 750 or so bags before they expire requires several machines.

It's not really passive income, though. You have to get people in there and interview them. Even if you just spend 10 minutes per applicant, that's already 600 minutes, or 10 hours. So yes, this is a decent hourly wage, at least until word gets around about what you're doing, which it will, because what kind of job interview is done in 10 minutes? Not one where you actually have a chance.

And yes, I do realize this post is most likely a joke. Still fun to reply to, though.

So about $10 a drink minimum? (assuming $300/day gross income)

If they can find 30 people per day to pay those prices, they need to quit their job and go full time into vending machine sales. They have a gift

Everyone. Calm down... This is a joke account.

Here another one of his posts.

putting the "ass" in passive!

That's not passive... 60 interviews a day?

Am I confused on why people are overcomplicating the math and adding assumptions to a clear given.

• 60 applications a day.

• Half of them (30) buy something.

• Makes 300 per day.

• They must make $10 per vending customer.

We can safely ignore operating costs and sementics to conclude this is massive ragebait.

Put out a bowl of extra salty peanuts and crank up the heat. Open a small bar in the corner serving margaritas, mojitos, pina coladas, etc... Sit back and watch the passive income roll in.

This is a capitalistic nightmare, just getting people on interviews to give them false hope just to make money from them. This is a scam.

That’s not passive income. That’s a lot of work.

That’s active income.

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That's not "Passive" income, if you have to attract 50-60 people per day, pretend to interview them, while subliminally encouraging them to use the vending machine. That's called a full-time job, and probably illegal, too.

And that isn't $300/day profit, he has to pay for those items in his machine. The profit is probably no more than 50%, so $150/day. For an 8 hour day, that's $18.75 an hour. That's a lot of work for not that much money. It certainly isn't "Passive."

This is TOTALY real and in no way, designed to infuriate people dumb enough to believe it.

For the record:

“A soda vending machine's revenue varies significantly based on location and product pricing, but a rough estimate for average daily revenue is $5. Monthly, this could range from $150 to $1,500, with high-traffic locations potentially earning up to $100 per day. However, profit margins depend on product costs and operating expenses.”

And that’s if he owns it outright.

50 interviews a DAY??

$37.50 an hour to talk to a minimum of 6 strangers that want something from me and think I can deliver it for them?

I’d rather be an urban outdoorsman.

sure... 9-8 min per job interview including welcoming the candidate, smalltalk, talking about the bullshit role you have to offer, listening to the candidates speech about why they are the best match for the bullshit role, asking critical questions about hypothetical job situations, pressing the candidate to buy a pyramid-scheme soda, saying goodbyes and escorting the candidate out.

sure that sounds realistic

Keep chasing it, buddy.

I can't tell if this is satire or linkedin lunatics, and that's the joy of lemmy shitpost.

The math doesn't math.

Even assuming the drinks cost $3, even if all 60 bought one, that's $180, not 2 or 3 hunnid.

And that's not counting the work to do the interviews, as mentioned by others, or counting the work to do inventory and stick the machine, it even the cost of the drinks themselves.

Bro really doin all this work for what accounts to maybe $30 profit on a good day. Which would be ok for a tiny amount of work, but even if he does this at his regular job, is just a decent chunk extra, not a ton.

This has Nathan Fielder energy and it's great