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Old 06-08-2015, 08:29 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by TiltonBB View Post

Don't forget that in order to provide that convenience for those people who do not carry cash there are significant costs to have an ATM available. The cost of the machine itself, access to internet service and a procesing company for the machine to provide transactions through. It is also necessary to tie up thousands of dollars in ATM machine inventory to have that cash available to customers.
ATM's are very profitable to own these days. If the VK is actually *paying* to have an ATM there, they are getting robbed. They should either own the ATM (and make money off the fees) or lease the space to whoever owns/maintains the ATM.
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