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Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract

Ryoae@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Furniture rental services are the devil’s work, it really is.

Semi-related, my family had rented furniture before. We had rented like this bedroom set and a wardrobe. It’s ludicrous to be into doing that. That’s why I thrift for furniture. Will I ever come across a PS5 thrifting? Probably never, not unless it’s just the shell of the console itself but even then someone will take it.

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baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
recently a friend managed to snag a perfectly fine used ps5 for 200€. i think that’s a really nice price. buying used is just pretty epic for a lot of product categories.

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- Ryoae@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  With the PS5 getting older, I think it’s 6 years old now which is hard to believe and people anticipating the PS6. I’m not really surprised that deals are coming up like that. I think someone on the FB Marketplace wanted some $150 for a PS5.
  
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  - baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    sure, but knowing the market for computers and computer parts there’s no way sony will offer a better deal in the next year. also there won’t be many exclusive titles for the ps6, if any, especially not in the first few years.
    
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TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Only use-case I’ve had for rental was when I was at a military school for five months. My roommate and I needed a TV in our barracks room, but there wasn’t much point in buying a TV (each of us had TVs back home), so we rented one for five months. It was great. One of us also bought a Wii (dating myself here), so it was a great time.

That’s about the only case I can think of renting furniture/appliances. If you are temporarily someplace and can’t thrift an item at a reasonable price.

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