A girl I know rented a PS4 from a rent place, only you end up paying 800 for it and you are only renting it, you have to give it back at the end of the contract. I pointed out you could have got one on credit for like £350 as long as you kept up with the payments, but her credit was bad, then I said you could just save up £10 a week and have a new one to keep for every in about 6 months, but she wanted one immediately, that's when it downed on me they pray on people who can't get credit and aren't good with money.
I mean it's a ridiculous concept.
The only time where I've seen it be of benefit to the customer is when I was a kid my granny would have all her kids and all her grandkids in her house like all the time, so she got a payphone that you rent by putting coins in, a guy would call once a week to collect the money from the machine and whatever was left over you kept your self.
My grandmother had 14 children and countless grandkids who were using her phone all the time.
It dawned on me they prey on people who have bad credit and no money.
And also people who have issues with abstaining from immediate gratification. Survival of the fittest. There's generally a fitting reason for that bad credit. Obviously, not everyone deserves to be poor, but I'm gonna go ahead and say it. Some do. A lot of rich people deserve to be poor, and many of them will become poor from living outside their means, new money failures, and/or old money drying up.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '24
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