Hey, here's an idea. Maybe Robo or one of the other franchisees can become a used parts broker for the machines and pizza boxes. Pitney is probably still stuck with hundreds of machines.
One another note, can you imagine buying 10 machines for $45,000 each, and then less than a year later being able to pick one up for $8,000? That's a loss of $370,000. Then top off by buying a 10 year franchise license for $5,000, only to have the franchisor go broke in less than a year. Think about what you could do with $50,000.
Let's not even get started on buying stock.