Passive income for Smithville 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 Smithville
Smithville is the northern edge of our service area and the most seasonal market in it. Smithville Lake pulls weekend visitors from across the Northland through a small downtown that is not built for that volume — which is exactly the traffic imbalance a card machine exploits, because those visitors are killing time between lake and car.
- Population
- about 11,000
- County
- Clay County
- Service distance
- roughly 35 minutes from our KC base
Where a machine works in Smithville
The venue types below actually exist here — we place against a city's real commercial geography rather than a template.
Downtown Smithville
A compact Main Street that weekend lake traffic funnels straight through, with limited competing options.
Lake-adjacent businesses
Visitors arrive with a day to fill and children in the car, and nothing else nearby to spend an impulse dollar on.
Local restaurants
Weekend waits in a small town run long, because there are few alternatives to move to.
Smithville districts and corridors we serve
What we know about Smithville
Smithville's population understates its weekend footfall by a wide margin, in the same way North Kansas City's does on evenings. The catch is seasonality: lake traffic is not year-round, so we would plan the product mix and restock cadence around a summer peak rather than a flat line. US-169 is the single route in and out, which concentrates traffic usefully.
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 Smithville, and adjusted after the first month on what actually sold.
What would it pay a Smithville 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 Smithville owners
No, it sits inside our 30-mile radius on the Northland route. It is the furthest north we go, which we would tell a host up front.
It does, and we plan for it. Restock cadence and product mix shift toward the summer peak rather than pretending traffic is flat across the year.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
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Put a Smithville 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 Smithville customers.