We have that scam here. It’s called “Rent To Own”.
Rent-A-Center, anyone?
Sixty pounds a month?
Highway robbery.
Funny that the Guardian objects to that, since their soon to come Sharia state will have taxes that’ll shake the scales of their very little tallywackers.
My dryer quit about 10 years ago.
I hang my clothes on the line during the summer and during the winter I hang them on the sun porch where a space heater provides heat.
When I lived there, cheap, small fridges were the norm, milk was delivered to the doorstep daily and didn’t need refrigeration, and daily shopping at the market, bakery, etc., was common too.
Ten bucks says they don’t have to rent their beer,their fags or their football tickets.
Am I the only freeper who thinks that this is just good old fashioned capitalism? Years ago when I decided to open my own office I rented furniture for a year or two. I could afford to pay the $60/mo but didn’t want to invest in a lot of stuff before I saw how it went. I’m now surrounded by stuff that I won’t value so I won’t have the tax man knocking on my door. LOL but I do have a two hundred year old solid walnut desk which is not ever going to move again since it now lives in my home office.
I guess even Valerie Jarrett knew this was not the time to bring up the Crusades, the only time these bigots.seem to mention Christians.
If Britain deported all its Muslims, there would be plenty of jobs for native Brits.
the dole probably pays better
I don’t know how my wife and I ever managed to survive during our early years, when our combined income was very, very middling and we had two children. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that we were married, emotionally mature, didn’t spend money on things we didn’t need, saved whatever we could, and kept our credit sound.
Rent-A-Center has been doing this for years. When I got out of college I split an apartment with a friend from college. He worked at Rent-a-center, I worked at Credit Thrift (American General Finance). He dealt with people too poor to get a loan at 29% interest. I dealt with people who had been paying off the same 90 day Same As Cash loan for the last decade.
Between us we knew every working poor person in the county.
BTW: Great place to buy outright is a Rent to Own store as they reposes rented items, they repair, clean them and either re-rent them or sell them. If you had the cash you could get anything from TV’s and washers to nice furniture all for next to nothing.
I don’t know if it’s still true, but a friend of mine (American) married a British girl while stationed over there, and after he got out they lived in England for a couple of years. He tells the story about their electric meter...it was “coin operated”. You want power, you have to put coins in the meter and but it by the hour, day, whatever.
They would get up in the morning and run to the meter and drop in the coins to get ready for work. And don’t dare come home at night without some change.
by the time delivery charges, insurance and servicing are loaded on, consumers who can ill afford it end up paying several times over. One fridge-freezer with a five-year service plan, which sells for £644 at middle-class favourite John Lewis, ended up costing £1,716.
There's no two ways about it - being poor is expensive.
One fridge-freezer with a five-year service plan, which sells for £644 at middle-class favourite John Lewis, ended up costing £1,716.
That refrigerator in US is on 2300 dollars. Our refrigerators are 3 grand and up. The one I bought this Summer was about 3200. They are getting a bargain and should appreciate it instead of complaining.
Headline should read High Tax Britain...ofcourse, that’d never happen.
Same deal on car leasing her in the USA
If you don’t want to pay the $10-$15 a month, then pay the $650. If you can’t afford the $650, then be grateful for the alternative.
They are creating a controversy where there isn’t one. I’ve done the rent-to-own thing several times. Back when I couldn’t afford anything and didn’t have credit, it was a blessing.
Things in Britain cost about twice what they do here. Thats due to the tax built in. A social paradise has costs. Everyone thinks the other guy is going to pay for it, but its the poor who wind up paying with higher prices and lost opportunities.
Don’t they have Craigslist over there?