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Here's your opportunity to start reeling in some money:Vending Consultants Inc.'s Live Bait Merchandiser, a live baitvending machine you can own and operate.

The Live Bait Merchandiser can be set up at bait shops, gasstations, campgrounds, boat launches, sporting goods stores,grocery and hardware stores, and popular fishing locations with anyvariety of live bait. The machine costs $3,825 and is equipped witha security door, controls that allow individual pricing perselection, environmentally safe refrigeration, lighted graphics,built-in auditing controls that compute unit sales and a cashmeter. Start-up inventory costs $200.

An optional heating kit, which is activated when outsidetemperatures are in the single digits, allows the vending machineto operate year-round, even through sub-zero weather.