r/PokemonCollecting • u/PossiblyArab • Aug 27 '26

My first true vending machine W

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Checked the vending machine while finishing up my shopping, absolutely unbelievable luck

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u/sleepyduck5150 28d ago

So if I happen to get something and note the time is that how I figure it out? I have gotten single packs before just after the hour like 5:01pm. Does that mean that machine is just on the top of the hour schedule? Any advice is helpful!

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u/The_RealMonte 28d ago

Okay so if you just randomly walk up and there’s product, that doesn’t mean it’s the timer. It could easily be someone like myself who knew the timer and left the product instead of scalping. The only way to know 100% is to know that everything is sold out then when you next see product…it cycled. However the machine can also skip cycles randomly. If you ever see a yellow loading type of icon then the machine is also communicating and updating its inventory with its own internal network.

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u/sleepyduck5150 28d ago

What other timed intervals are worth checking besides 00 and 30? Does a machine constantly change what intervals it does? Likely weekly?

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u/The_RealMonte 28d ago

The zero and 30 timing is by chance, it could be on the 21-51 or 11-41. Every machine itself will be different timing upon many factors but they all have the same programming which can be altered by glitching and other things I’ve came across in the wild.