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Home Business with ATM Machines
If you happen to read any home business magazine, you're unlikely to miss the ads for ATM (automatic teller machine) home business opportunities. Likewise, if you've ever been to a franchise fair you've heard about this popular home business opportunity. There are companies that, for a heafty price tag, will allow you to place their ATM's at various locations and collect the service fees for each transaction. In this business, you have a machine that does the work for you, collecting money day and night. All you have to do is take your service fee. This sounds like an ideal business, but as you probably expected, it isn't that simple.
How it works
In short, you buy the rights for an ATM, find a location (most likely a store) for it, and collect money every time a bank customer withdraws money. This charge is sometimes a flat rate up to $2.00 a transaction, while other times it is a percentage of the amount withdrawn. Often, the store owner may want a cut of these fees, or just require a monthly charge. Either way, you are still making a good profit. Better yet, many of these companies providing the machines will stock the ATM with money for you. Typically, the amount of money in an ATM is $60,000 though that rate may vary depending on the location. This means all you must do is come up with the cost of gaining rights to place the machine, find a location for it and collect your profits.
Problems with owning an ATM
Many of these companies will sell the ATM to you for upwards of $10,000, a cut of the profits, or in some cases both. In such a case, one might ask if placing ATM's is such a profitable venture, why would these companies be willing to rent them out instead? The reality is that the success of your ATM venture will depend on the location. The company selling the machine does not care, because even if your location fails and as a result brings in no share of profits to them, they already have your money. After all, you had to pay for the machine. If you are looking at spending that kind of money on an ATM, make sure that no additional conditions are placed on the deal. While there are companies that do this, you can also find some that will sell you the machine outright.
However, finding a great location is no guarantee for success. Consider the owner of such a location. Typically, you will offer them a cut of the profits to place the machine, possibly along with a monthly flat fee. But if the location is good enough that an ATM would bring in high profits, why wouldn't the owner just buy an ATM themselves? There are many ATM's that can be purchased for around $5,000, and the store owner needs to pay no percentages to a third party. In other words, it is much more profitable for a store owner to buy an ATM than use yours. Keep that in mind if you're considering starting your own ATM business.
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