Souta Routes USA


Country United States
State Kansas
City Lenexa
Address 10675 Widmer Rd
Phone 785-218-5309
Website http://www.sodaroutesusa.com/

Souta Routes USA Reviews

  • Jun 6, 2015

We wanted to start small business and Vending Machines felt great. We did research, looked and looked and found web site for Soda Routs USA. Based on their reviews and testimonies we made decision to work with them. Smallest package they have is 10 locations and contract with local bottling company. We called and talked to them and everything they promised sounded so good: We pay $11900 for 10 locations and somewhere between 5.5 and 11 month we were promised get our money back, with slowest outcome we were to make $1000 a month from 10 locations. It sounded OK. I used all of my savings to pay for this.

Things have changed the moment they cashed my check. They even talked to us differently. They found 10 locations, like very small businesses in town, apartment complex. We went there checked, met people there and saw that there was no potential in those locations: not enough people traffic, or apartments with refrigerator in every unit. We were specific that 7 out of 10 locations are not good. Nobody heard us, machines were delivered. Next thing I know, we need locks for each machine, more money invested. Next, soda comes and another $800 put in, in about 2 weeks another delivery comes and 2 weeks later another delivery comes. But soda was not selling.

At this time we are making about $100 a month from all of those locations. It will take us 10 years to recover the cost of what we paid to SRUSA, if business goes this way. I started talking and e-mailing. They found replacements for 4 machines with exactly same number of employees per office.

There was another surprise waiting: Soda is expiring, I have a shelf full of expired soda. (3 month after delivery). And sometime machine doesn't work right and we have to give free soda. At this point I am not sure if we will recover money for soda we paid, plus if you order from bottling company you pay a little more than if you would go to grocery store, this makes price at the machine high and people just don't buy it. Most of our locations sell for $5 or $10 per week. We make about 30% from sale, it makes it more expensive to drive there.

And one more surprise. Our machines were there for 3 month and people in those offices are asking for commissions now. They tell us, that they were promised commissions from soda sales. I still didn't get an answer, who promised this and how much.

All contracts with locations are for 12 month, all of them have some names, not ours, but it will take us 10 years of work (and it's a lot of work) to recover the cost. If business goes like this 10 years from now, we will be proudly making $100 a month, but for now it's just work.

And one more cool thing. If you e-mail them, replies come with disclaimers, it will be false information there, but if you try to verify, you will be notified that if you do, you are disclosing confidential information and you can pay for it. Be careful.

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