It also looks like they’re substituting lower end parts when you switch from buy to subscribe so your paying more more for the “top of the line” PC after the first year.
So it’s like every other subscription rental service or Rent-to-own business. Those services have always been a scam. Nowhere near a new idea, and definitely not the first company to do it with electronics.
Don’t see how this is any different than the hundreds of other companies that do this all over the place, other than it being a manufacturer directly instead of a middle man.
Yeah, rent to own, emphasis on own. Even those places, sure you’d pay the times the cost of the unit but at the end of the day, you’d own the thing and you know exactly what you’re getting.
Here you not only are they doing the shady things of switching to inferior parts when you’re hitting subscribe so you’re a lot more for a lot less that you also don’t own at the end of the day. Plus the terms are in the agreement are problematic with the way they’re written.
This seems a lot worse than anything Rent-a-center has ever done.
that was something like price didn’t include tax, monitor, or shipping (an outrageous amount for that, too). imagine having four years left on your glorious 850mhz celeron system with 64mb ram when winxp comes out.
No, this is misrepresenting older hardware as state of the art, switching out hardware component of the system if you select the rental option, then asking a predatory rental fee, and littering the contract with mines that give the company cause to charge you extra or if they make mistakes reducing a 2 year legal period to adress the problem to a mere 60 days. And then using an army of influencers to lie and misrepresent this product in order to drive sales.
basically pay for the whole pc the first year, but you don’t own it. yup. several sites have run articles on it.
It also looks like they’re substituting lower end parts when you switch from buy to subscribe so your paying more more for the “top of the line” PC after the first year.
not just substituting lower-end…
So it’s like every other subscription rental service or Rent-to-own business. Those services have always been a scam. Nowhere near a new idea, and definitely not the first company to do it with electronics.
Don’t see how this is any different than the hundreds of other companies that do this all over the place, other than it being a manufacturer directly instead of a middle man.
There’s more to it, if you watch the video.
False advertising, bait and switching specs, and of course, you don’t own the computer at the end of the lease. You have to return it.
Yeah, rent to own, emphasis on own. Even those places, sure you’d pay the times the cost of the unit but at the end of the day, you’d own the thing and you know exactly what you’re getting.
Here you not only are they doing the shady things of switching to inferior parts when you’re hitting subscribe so you’re a lot more for a lot less that you also don’t own at the end of the day. Plus the terms are in the agreement are problematic with the way they’re written.
This seems a lot worse than anything Rent-a-center has ever done.
Canadians of a certain age will remember Buck-a-day computers from the 2000’s
https://archive.org/details/do-you-really-want-a-clone
that was something like price didn’t include tax, monitor, or shipping (an outrageous amount for that, too). imagine having four years left on your glorious 850mhz celeron system with 64mb ram when winxp comes out.
No, this is misrepresenting older hardware as state of the art, switching out hardware component of the system if you select the rental option, then asking a predatory rental fee, and littering the contract with mines that give the company cause to charge you extra or if they make mistakes reducing a 2 year legal period to adress the problem to a mere 60 days. And then using an army of influencers to lie and misrepresent this product in order to drive sales.
It’s actually even worse than that.