Looks like KTM are stepping up to the next level of scamming scamminess. The infamous "we will place the terminals for you", "all you have to do is invest and collect", that always ends with a garage full of gumball machines and a light wallet. Oh, I know what you are thinking, but this is Flexkom, they have a great track record of keepin promises. Surely it is just a coincidence that they are taking this route to dump product, er I mean find new BMs.


The following are some common tactics fraudulent promoters might use: Don't Get Short Changed: Be Aware of Vending Machine Scams - BBB News Center

Inflated profit projections, including elaborate charts that may have no basis in fact.
Locator services, in which the company claims to employ an expert locator to find prime locations for its machines. The service usually ends once any establishment willing to have a machine on its premises is found, regardless of how many potential customers that area attracts.
Training programs that are generally superficial or non-existent. And it should be noted that it is impossible to learn to be a successful vending operator in one or two weeks from an out-of-town salesperson.
"Good deals" on machines, which may turn out to be machines sold for two to three times their actual value. Potential investors should be wary of buying any machine that they cannot look at in person since catalog pictures and descriptions may not tell the whole story.
Repurchase plans, in which vending promoters offer to buy back inventory from the investor. Unfortunately, the promoter is usually long gone by the time an investor tries to exercise this option.
Guarantees offered by sales agents often are worthless because the agent cannot be located and the manufacturer will not honor them

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Candy Vending Machine Scam Puts Cavities In Investors' Pockets - Forbes
Consequently, prosecutors charge that the victimized investors’ machines were merely placed in the most expedient manner, often in businesses that had not consented to housing the machines and quickly defmanded their removal.
As a result of the alleged scam, investors’ vending machines generated little business and Vendstar’s customers lost nearly all if not all of their investments. The typical customer paid about $10,000 for the business opportunity.

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Fraudulent Display Rack Business Opportunity Fraud and Vending Machine Scam Offers


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