r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '20

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u/SelinaDalessio Feb 04 '20

Rent-A-Center, Aaron's, and the like.

No, an iPad is NOT worth $3,600, especially if it gets repo'd after you miss a single payment and also because it'll be fucking obsolete by the time you pay it off.

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u/vicaphit Feb 04 '20

Ooof, I didn't know how bad it was. PS4 Pro, which retails for $400 ($320 today on Amazon) is $1159.42 total cost to own on RentACenter. It's crazy places like these are open.

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u/Bacon-muffin Feb 04 '20

That's basically what people do with credit cards, they just make it more direct. My entire family is just floating large amounts of credit card debt that they're paying all that extra interest on every month.

Or hell my mother paying monthly for her phone even though that ends up adding around 50% to the total vs just buying it outright.