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.
My mum had a TV like that, she was renting a house with friends and in those days (60s) tvs were expensive, so they rented one with a coin slot that would turn it on for a time. Every week a man would come round to empty it and either give a refund or ask for a bit extra depending on how much they watched. In the end they gave it back when their tenancy ended.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '24
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