http://www.wiispin.com/2008/02/29/rent-to-own-wii-costs-948/ Find news, reviews, and other articles for the nintendo wii gaming console. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.wiispin.com/2008/02/29/rent-to-own-wii-costs-948/comment-page-1/#comment-55214 Ehud Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:23:19 +0000 http://www.wiispin.com/2008/02/29/rent-to-own-wii-costs-948/#comment-55214 Let's see, paying 4-6 times what something actually cost? Did anyone buy a house lately? or actually take the time to price merchandise at stores, everything is marked up. Heck, look at what the major computer companies actually spend on making a system, then go for their 3 to 5 year financing...29.99%/year adds up for a standard finance. You can hate rent-to-own because they cant hide what they paid for the merchandise you are going to pay for. The manufacturers and retail resellers of all types of merchandise, make at around the same on the average, but we just dont know what it costs them. Do some research and you will be amazed at all the companies making 4-6 times the cost of their goods. Let’s see, paying 4-6 times what something actually cost? Did anyone buy a house lately? or actually take the time to price merchandise at stores, everything is marked up. Heck, look at what the major computer companies actually spend on making a system, then go for their 3 to 5 year financing…29.99%/year adds up for a standard finance. You can hate rent-to-own because they cant hide what they paid for the merchandise you are going to pay for. The manufacturers and retail resellers of all types of merchandise, make at around the same on the average, but we just dont know what it costs them. Do some research and you will be amazed at all the companies making 4-6 times the cost of their goods.

]]> http://www.wiispin.com/2008/02/29/rent-to-own-wii-costs-948/comment-page-1/#comment-48307 King David Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:46:36 +0000 http://www.wiispin.com/2008/02/29/rent-to-own-wii-costs-948/#comment-48307 Ok. Here's the other end of the spectrum...sell your wii right now! Do it, seriously! You have owned the damned thing long enough to know it's a Gamecube with a cool controller and a release schedule that makes you want to die. There's some kid out there who will overpay for your...possibly even rent-to-own it? Anyway, put the money in a savings account, or gamble it or something...then buy another wii when the price drops. SSBB will be on sale, just in case you give a shit. The only reason I don't want to do this is because I'm a shameful nerd who can't bear to part with my VC downloads and virtual friends' likenesses collected on my console...sigh. Nintendo knows how to exploit stupid people (see "shovelware", "price fixing", "supply-and-demand") why not take a page from their book? Ok. Here’s the other end of the spectrum…sell your wii right now! Do it, seriously! You have owned the damned thing long enough to know it’s a Gamecube with a cool controller and a release schedule that makes you want to die. There’s some kid out there who will overpay for your…possibly even rent-to-own it? Anyway, put the money in a savings account, or gamble it or something…then buy another wii when the price drops. SSBB will be on sale, just in case you give a shit. The only reason I don’t want to do this is because I’m a shameful nerd who can’t bear to part with my VC downloads and virtual friends’ likenesses collected on my console…sigh. Nintendo knows how to exploit stupid people (see “shovelware”, “price fixing”, “supply-and-demand”) why not take a page from their book?

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