Passive income for North Kansas City locations.
We put a collectible card vending machine in your lobby, stock it with product nobody else in town is selling, restock it ourselves, and send you a share of every sale. You are not buying a machine. You are renting out empty floor space for pure profit.
- Your cost, forever
- $0
- Of your staff's time
- 0 hrs
- Your check, every month
- 15th
Your cost, forever
Of your staff's time
Your check, every month
Collectible card vending machines in North Kansas City
North Kansas City has one of the widest gaps in the metro between how many people live there and how many are there on any given day. Armour Road and the Iron District pull evening and weekend crowds from across the Northland, and the entertainment venues along the river run late — all of it foot traffic that does not show up in the residential figure.
- Population
- about 4,500 residents, with a far larger daytime population
- County
- Clay County
- Service distance
- roughly 10 minutes from our KC base
Where a machine works in North Kansas City
The venue types below actually exist here — we place against a city's real commercial geography rather than a template.
Entertainment and gaming venues
Late-hours crowds with money already in play, and long stretches of standing around between activities.
Iron District and Armour Road
A concentrated walkable strip where visitors move between several businesses in one evening.
Arcade and amusement bars
The audience is squarely the collector demographic, already spending on games by the round.
North Kansas City districts and corridors we serve
What we know about North Kansas City
Do not judge North Kansas City by its census count. The daytime and evening population dwarfs it, and that is the number a host machine actually sells to. Being ten minutes from our base makes this the single easiest city in the metro for us to keep stocked and serviced.
What the machine holds
Sealed collectible trading card packs — Pokémon anchors the lineup, alongside Japanese, Korean and Chinese imports no store in the metro carries, plus sports and other trading card lines. Prices start at $5.99. The mix is tuned to whoever walks past your door in North Kansas City, and adjusted after the first month on what actually sold.
What would it pay a North Kansas City location?
Move the slider to match your foot traffic. Six sales a day is realistic for a site with steady weekend traffic.
Your revenue share: 12%
Fixed, and agreed in writing before we install.
- $2,700
- Machine gross per month
- $324
- Paid to you per month
That is about $3,888 pure profit a year from one square meter of floor space.
Estimates based on our standard product mix at a $15 average sale, not a guarantee. We give you a site-specific projection after visiting, and the share percentage goes in writing before install.
Asked by North Kansas City owners
No, and it is the most common misread of this city. Visitors from across the Northland far outnumber residents on any evening, and those visitors are the buyers.
Yes. We schedule around a venue's hours rather than the other way round, and NKC is close enough to our base that timing is not a constraint.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
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Put a North Kansas City corner to work
Tell us about your space and we'll be in touch with a traffic assessment, an install plan and the product mix we would run for North Kansas City customers.