Bad design in Vending machine.

The BBQ Pit
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This is either a rookie software design fault (vital link missing from some decision tree diagram) or petty con-artistry.

Either way it’s fucking irritating.
This is the fault - You put your money in. You choose something. You get an ‘out of order’ message for that item - Ok this is acceptable. Sometimes things fail to work. Machines aren’t perfect. Right so I want my money back, since I can’t have what I wanted.

Nothing I try will get my money back. I HAVE to choose something else. In a machine that contains only ONE thing that I ever choose, this is irritating.

Turning the machine off is no good because doing that just loses the money you put in.

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I got the best of a vending machine today. It’s a “SureVend” machine, which means it has a sensor that makes sure an item dropped before it deducts the price from the money you put in. If you press a button and nothing comes out, you get another chance.

So I put in $1.00. I pressed 44 for a bag of peanuts. The machine spun the coil with the peanuts but the bag got hung up a bit and didn’t fall. It recognized this and spun the coil again. Two bags of peanuts fell. But somehow the sensor didn’t notice, so it didn’t deduct the 85 cents from my dollar. I still had $1.00 credit. I punched in the number for another item. The machine dropped that item, deducted 85 cents, and gave me 15 cents change. Three 85-cent items for 85 cents total. Figuring today was my day, I marched right down to the hottest girl in the building and offered her a bag of peanuts in exchange for a blowjob. The blowjob wasn’t very good, so maybe today wasn’t my day after all. At least I’ve got snacks.

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Just as irritating is when there are 5 full rows of the item you want and they all say they’re out. And every other row has either energy drinks or Mountain Dew.

AND, then the machine either wont give you your money back, or - like the one at work, it spits out all nickels and shoots them all the way across the room and under the fridge.

4

I hate when I select a candy bar and it gives me bees instead.

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The worst is when they load the damn soda machine wrong, so instead of a delicious and nutritious bottle of soda, it dispenses a bottle of…water.

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Or it drops the drink from so high up that it fizzes if you open it within an hour afterwards. :rolleyes:

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It’s difficult to give a good blowjob with your mouth full of peanuts.

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The vending machine at my office will dispense a can of shitty generic orange juice when you hit the Sprite button. Except for some reason it doesn’t do it consistently. So I’ll warn my colleagues about this, and they’ll hit the Sprite button and get a Sprite, and look at me like I’m an idiot. Later on, I’ll feed in a dollar, thinking, “Oooh, Sprite!”, and I’ll get a can of shitty generic OJ. :mad: I let the office fridge thieves have it.

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There used to be a vending machine where I went to college that always had 20oz Wild Cherry Pepsi for $.25. Guess who always walked an extra 20 yards to go to that vending machine? :smiley:

Well played! :smiley:

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I dunno…it’s better than Altoids!

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I haven’t read this whole thread, but if you don’t want the bad design in this Vending machine, you could always just make a different selection. The vending machines where I work don’t offer any designs at all, so be happy for what you’ve got.

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You could have at least made an effort.

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:dubious:

The other selections are unwanted. I wanted my money back when the thing I chose was out of order.

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I thought the only way to give a blowjob was with your mouth full of pe…

Nevermind.

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Lobsang, we have a soda machine like this at work, too. I put my dollar bill in, made my selection, oh it’s out. My selection was diet coke, and there are 3 of the 6 buttons on the machine for them, so I press diet coke #2 - out. Diet Coke #3 is out too. DAMN.

I absolutely couldn’t get my dollar back - the coin release wouldn’t give me coins for the buck. The “exact change only” button wasn’t lit, so it wasn’t that…nothing.

I eventually hit a random button just to complete the transaction, and left the damn thing on the counter with a note. Someone scored a free soda!

I’ve learned now that if I hit the button first, it will light up if my selection is out. So now, I walk up to the machine, hit the button, and if it doesn’t light up, THEN I put my money in.

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Might I suggest next time you use Diet Coke and Mentos?

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Pssst. I think he was making a joke.

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Ew.
And, the best are the machines that have the tray that move up and down and catches the drinks. It’s a conveyor belt that dumps it into the receiving dock thing. But, if you stick your hand in there, and keep the door shut, it thinks the drink didn’t dispense, so it doesn’t take your money. You can do this as long as you like, but really, once you get past 4 or 5, you begin to destroy the machine.

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So it’s a bad thing to get a blowjob that could be described as “Uncommonly Strong?” :smiley:

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SHEESH! What next? You gonna go into a restaurant, order something, then LEAVE when the server tells you they’re out of it?

Or maybe you’ll order something online from Macy’s… they’ll email you apologizing for it being out of stock, and you’ll ask for a refund? What, you can’t just settle for ANY old sweater?

:wink: