How Honest Placements works for vending operators.

Locator services charge a non-refundable deposit before they ever pick up a phone. Most operators we talked to had paid one and felt locked in. We do the opposite: zero-deposit pilots, a per-appointment charge when we book — no retainer required, no subscription — and a published rubric that defines exactly what every appointment is held to.

We only get paid for appointments we actually book. If an appointment doesn't meet the rubric, we replace it at no charge - same if our caller mishandles a meeting. The contract is short, the math is transparent, and the rubric is public so there's nothing for us to hide behind.

Our pricing page explains how pricing works — pay per booked appointment, no deposit, your rate shown to you at checkout before you are charged — and the rubric conditions every appointment is held to. The portal surfaces the state of every scheduled appointment — scheduled, held, no-showed — with timestamps.

If something looks off, you can see why. We'd rather lose a deal because the numbers are visible than win one because they're hidden.

Most appointment-setting agencies stop measuring at the meeting. We track placement survival at 30, 60, and 90 days post-handoff and publish aggregated cohort outcomes every quarter. The first Survival Report publishes when the pilot cohort reaches 50 operators or Q3 — whichever comes later — because thin data is how this category earned its reputation. Separately and always, aggregation never releases a segment under 10 operators, to protect operator privacy.

If our placements churn, the report will say so. The point of publishing is to make the number honest before anyone asks us about it.

An appointment is only useful if the operator can close it. We ship meeting-prep materials with every booked appointment — site context, decision-maker notes, common objections — and the customer portal includes short close-rate trainings drawn from the calls we've recorded.

If you've never closed a route in person, we'll walk you through one. Held appointments where the operator no-shows or fumbles aren't the rubric's fault, and we'd rather invest the time to make the meeting count than count the meeting and move on.

Damione Basdell founded Honest Placements; his bio, photo, and contact details are public. Every site article carries a byline. Every caller has a profile in the portal. Schema.org Person markup makes the identity machine-readable, which matters now that AI search surfaces (Perplexity, Profound) cite authorship.

If you have a question, you have a person to call. If a call goes wrong, you know whose voice was on the line.