>It's incredibly difficult to figure out how much it costs, because none of the rent-to-own websites will give you a price.
Pricing is different per-location too.
Depending on what you're using these outfits for, it can work out (he that's well paid is will satisfied and all that..), but for the most part, you're paying a lot of extra money for the privilege of getting a pretty decent replacement plan (both Aarons and RAC to my knowledge will replace broken appliances/electronics/furniture while on lease) and spreading the total payments due across a large period.
Whether that's worth it or not to you will depend on the person, really. I'd hardly classify them as predatory, or skeevy, or even really a rip off, just very, very expensive.
Actually looking through the article, all of the companies involved in this clusterf*ck are companies I've never heard of. None of the big names, at least.
Pricing is different per-location too.
Depending on what you're using these outfits for, it can work out (he that's well paid is will satisfied and all that..), but for the most part, you're paying a lot of extra money for the privilege of getting a pretty decent replacement plan (both Aarons and RAC to my knowledge will replace broken appliances/electronics/furniture while on lease) and spreading the total payments due across a large period.
Whether that's worth it or not to you will depend on the person, really. I'd hardly classify them as predatory, or skeevy, or even really a rip off, just very, very expensive.
Actually looking through the article, all of the companies involved in this clusterf*ck are companies I've never heard of. None of the big names, at least.