Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by MaxPen View Post
Why do you think casinos pay the equivalent of a dealer's week worth of pay every month for the damn things?
Truth be told, I never understood why they were willing to pay that rent. Some places have tables with machines that they pay rent on sit there 5 days a week and only used them 1 or 2 weekend nights, or maybe an extra day during a holiday or big event weekend. Then you have both types of machines ASM and CSM breaking down constantly requiring a ton of maintenance. You see people working on them at the table and you see them being swapped out so they can work on them in the back. There has to be a cost to all that extra maintained that they didn't originally count on when the pitch was made about what these machines would make for them by saving down time and increasing rounds played.

A similar thing occurred with casinos spending on technology, surveillance equipment, facial recognition, evaluation software, to thwart card counters, who they were told were a thread. In the end they spent $5 for every $1 they saved by "catching" card counters.
I would pay quite a bit for a machine that allows me to have the equivalent of a team of professional card mechanics on staff if I was a casino. Even if I was only going to make use of it one night a week or whatever. Might even be worth it for holiday weekend use only.

That is why I asked the question.