Comments on: Buy Your Own Redbox (well, almost)

By: Rojas2008

Rojas2008 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:10:53 +0000

how about the cost of power these machines look and sound like
they draw a lot of power,does the store pay for it,
or the owner of the machines.
redbox machines sounds like they have an air condition unit build in.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:55:45 +0000

I happen to know of a gas station that has its own movie rental kiosk. It appears to have no brand name.
This is my take. If you want to make money in this industry who gives a flying rats !@#$ about redbox. I don’t rent at redbox because i think they have a great trade mark. I rent there because they’re sitting at the mickey dees i’m eating at right now or at the entrance to the store my wife makes me follow her through. So instead consider if you can secure an area that redbox cannot. Do you know a store owner or something of that nature. I won’t mention one general location I have in mind because I don’t want competition in that area before i can capitalize but in this redbox cannot compete with me and there are loads of people.

By: sydigital

sydigital — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:02:49 +0000

I am just curious.. is there licensing or agreements made with production companies for the renting of their movies/games? what kind of fees do they charge?

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:47:33 +0000

Looks like his website is back up:
http://www.evobox.com/

Also, here is a mirror site of the same thing:
http://www.youhavechosenwisely.com/evobox/

He is also selling the domain name:
http://www.who.is/whois-com/ip-address/evobox.com/

Here is the active trademark (also selling):
http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=78940491#

He also has both EVOBOX (trademark) and Evolution Entertainment, LLC registered in Utah.

Here is his current contact information:
Robert Heward
2250 N UNIV PKWY #48
PMB4888
PROVO, UT 84604-7575

Mobile: 801.319.2033
Fax: 801.421.2073

I spoke with him at he is selling for $7,500 each unit; however if someone purchases all units he’ll sell the whole business for $60,000. He’ll finance with $20,000 down.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:55:44 +0000

At this time it would be difficult to compete with Redbox and Dvdplay
if they keep giving out promo codes. When the machine goes down you have to give refunds to everyone or you lose business. A tech told me in some areas people jam the machine then claim it was out of order when they tried to return the DVD so they pulled the machine from that location. Who has time to go out to fix it at about $50/hr or is your time free.

By: Bert steele

Bert steele — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:10:08 +0000

I work on a major army base (FT Campbell) and they have thier own machines, granted they are a lot slower and have less selection they beat the heck out of the local rental stores. So I would think if you don’t have red box then the next best thing would be the best thing going…. just my thoughts

By: ddthesm

ddthesm — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:55:44 +0000

This could be profitable…..if it’s planned & executed absolutely perfectly and lets say in theory that these kiosks work perfectly. I would think for this much money, no good business person would see it as a good investment, especially from a random posting on craigslist (unless they already have an established business). And the other posters are correct, unless one has a huge amount of cash to invest on top of a huge savings in the case the whole project crashes and burns, this would be a huge risk to any business owner because of restocking and maintenance.

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:44:01 +0000

So you buy one of these questionable kiosks for $7,500 or so (or one from DVDNow for @ $19,500), bust your hump convincing someone to put it in their establishment, then go out and buy 300-500 dvd’s from one of the distributors at $5 to $20 a pop to stock it.

What do you set your price point at? Lessee . . . How about $1 like Redbox? Take about $.05 from that for the credit card processor. Looks like you’re making $.95 per rental to me. Of course you’re going to be as successful as Redbox with their 8000 kiosks and average about 400 rentals a week, so that makes about $380 from your one kiosk. So maybe you won’t be that successful and do a whopping 200/week for $190. Are you SURE that many people will rent from a “me too” kiosk at Lois and Fred’s Family Market?

So maybe they will. You’ve spent a MINIMUM of $1500 stocking that kiosk with titles that might not rent more than 5 or 6 times. Then next week and every week after that you have to go out and buy maybe 5 to 10 each of 5 to 8 new releases to keep things fresh every week. Lessee, 5*5*$5(minimum, and some of the more popular titles will cost you $18-20) is something like $125. How much did you make on those 200 rentals? or was it more like 16 rentals? How much of the revenue are you sharing with Lois & Fred?

Then the kiosk goes down. Surely you have the technical expertise to get it running, right? And the time to go out to the kiosk every week to stock it and clear the inevitable jams caused by kids putting foreign objects in the rental slot?

Yessir, this looks like a REAL money maker!

By: Me

Me — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:50:09 +0000

Twice the capacity of redbox? Redboxes hold 630 disks.

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:07:09 +0000

E-mail me with some incentive. The cash is here, but can I make some money, too? Tickle me pink!