iPod Vending Machines in Jordan.
The Vending Machine isn’t something new, in fact, it is ancient. its been in use in the western world, Japan, China and a lot of countries forever now. in fact they are so popular and has become an integral part of every day life that there is virtually a vending machine for absolutely anything you could think of. from flowers to subway tickets to disposable cameras to phone cards to beer to magazines. anything. even iPod vending machines.
Will we ever have Vending machines in Jordan? Probably not, due to the mentality of disregard, carelessness and negligence for anything that is public property they will probably get destroyed to get robbed out of contents, or just for the heck of it.
Still, its not a far fetched thought, nor is it an extravagant luxury. some well placed machines in select areas can do much good, lets say for bottled water or beverages and snacks, prepaid phone cards, or prepaid internet cards, or perhaps even cigarettes and newspapers? or dare i say even iPods?
The first modern coin-operated vending machines were introduced in London, England in the early 1880s, dispensing post cards. I wonder, in what century will wee see vending machines on the Jordanian streets?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 am
When it’s too late! When we don’t need them anymore coz the world has moved on. That day, you’ll wake up in Jordan and find vending machines.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 am
although they say,”better late than never” but too late robs off the excitement of that things.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
The scene of a spoon stuck in the mouth of the phone booth has always freaked me out!
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 am
Vending machines never caught on because the sizes and weights of coins kept changing. They have been fixed for a while now, but if you have some older coins you will notice the variations were substantial. When people installed vending machines, they would not work except for some types of coins, and you could never tell which type until you lost some money in the machine.
I like the idea about “better late than never”. We caught on to pay phones only when cell phones started to catch on. The pay phones lasted a couple of years, but people soon decided they would rather own a cell phone.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
vending machines are a good investment in europe because of the relatively high payment a person there would ask for to do the same job. They have continued to exist despite efforts to rob them, destroy them, and despite changes in the size of coins (you simply have to change the part of the machine which takes the coins). I don’t know how it is in Jordan, but I know from other arabic countries that salaries aren’t very high, so paying a person to do the job instead would be much, much cheaper and easier (you don’t have to keep maintaining and repairing the person as you do the machine :-P)
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
but i think on other hand it will really give facelift to te area where it is deployed.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
YA Welle! Vending machines for ipod? i honestly never heard of it! bas ya reit low yseer 3enna vending machine! anything!
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
iPod Vending Machines in Jordan. | Bakkouz…
The Vending Machine isn’t something new, in fact, it is ancient. its been in use in the western world, Japan, China and a lot of countries forever now….
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
well…I’ve been using vending machines since the 80s which make it as old as 24 years. I even have a picture putting a dime in one of the machine in placed on the side walk of the street. While we were teenager my friends and I used to kick vending machines to get our money back. It used to be funny don’t know what it feels like now.
The machines are becoming a trend here in Egypt nowadays for selling prepaid cards in public places, like the metro stations, malls, Airports and etc.
Anyway, I’ve seen vending machines for sandwiches, snacks, burgers, prepaid cards, sodas and so on, but iPods really never saw it coming.
man I’m telling you, those people aren’t playing. They just keep on thinking.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
The first time I saw an Ipod vending machine was at an airport. I immediately took it’s picture, although there’s no way I’d buy an ipod from there!
April 27th, 2008 at 10:24 am
They will reach Jordon also… One day
April 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I wonder who has 400 dinars in his pocket when he’s gallivanting around the streets of Jordan.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
i can only imagine the looks on people’s faces when a vending machine will be introduced in amman
will appear at night and steal it
putting someone like this 
into the vending machine like u see on TV
and then someone looking like this :
or u could see someone looking like this
o well but keep in mind that soda would cost 5 JD’s from a vending machine
April 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Good work…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I worked for a vending machine company in college, and you would be amazed at how much money those things make!! Even if the product is twice as much as they should be the impulse buy thing kicks in and they make some bank.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I love vending machines
yet i cannot forget the telephone cards machine that (ate) 20 pounds of mine when i was in UK!!
yet i kept using them aover and over… for maps, chocolate, water, sandwiche… every thing… i love them
bs won’t dream of any in Jordan!!! remember the (alo) and (JPP) cabinets? Vending machines are more ‘tempting’ to destroy
May 8th, 2008 at 1:31 am
wow thats cool, although i dont know how useful an ipod would be at the aiport since they dont come with songs. i guess its cool for gift-buying purposes :o
-Russ
May 16th, 2008 at 8:57 am
meanwhile… a vending machine for crows… http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/261
May 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Honestly, what you said in your blog was including everyone’s opinion about stuff like that in Amman.
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If the garbage cans had their share of being abused, imagine if the vending machines were introduced to the Jordanian public
The way you posted you point of view was very catching and attention-grabbing.
I am looking forward to reading more of what you have to say about day-to-day stuff which you go through.
Keep on blogging, i’ll be reading
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 am
I’ve seen these in U.S. airports a few times, presumably the people who can afford to buy an iPod on an impulse are the kind who fly frequently.
What I don’t get is, if you’re buying one for a trip away from home, how do you get your music on it? If you’ve got some way of getting all your digital music to the airport in the first place, what do you need an iPod for?
May 29th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
That is the coolest thing ever!
June 8th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
A vending machine for an iPod? How would that work exactly? An iPod costs £100s so do they expect someone to put in £100 in £1 coins? Bizarre.
John