Rent-A-Center I rented a dell Windows XP, because my income doe's not allow me to pay straight out. Tell me how a 500 dollar computer, ends up costing 2,131.34, at 42 dollars a week? ripoff East Orange New Jersey

Don't mean to be rude but why do you think it's called rent-a-center? Go ahead and figure out what it will cost you to rent a $10,000 vehicle from a rental car place. $40-$50,000? The only difference is you'll never own the vehicle. All these rental places are ripoffs unless you're renting the stuff for a short period of time, like moves and such. Any other poor fool is just wasting their money big time. If they were smart, they'd just save up the money and buy it outright at a fourth or less of the price. But that's why they're in the situation to begin with. You found you could have bought a new computer for $500, instead you paid these crooks $2,131.34 at $42 per week. In 12 weeks you could have saved up the money, bought the computer and been $1631 richer.

Don't mean to be rude but why do you think it's called rent-a-center? Go ahead and figure out what it will cost you to rent a $10,000 vehicle from a rental car place. $40-$50,000? The only difference is you'll never own the vehicle. All these rental places are ripoffs unless you're renting the stuff for a short period of time, like moves and such. Any other poor fool is just wasting their money big time. If they were smart, they'd just save up the money and buy it outright at a fourth or less of the price. But that's why they're in the situation to begin with. You found you could have bought a new computer for $500, instead you paid these crooks $2,131.34 at $42 per week. In 12 weeks you could have saved up the money, bought the computer and been $1631 richer.

RAC only helps itself. The only interest is to supply items consumers "want" and an opportunity to provide impulse buying power to those without the funds to obtain the merchandise otherwise.

You would be better off simply returning the system to RAC. The money you will make in payments, put in savings until you have enough to make a cash purchase.

At least when you make the cash purchase you will get a PC that is more state of the art. The PC you "rented" from RAC is 3 generation at best. By the time you pay it off, the value of the PC will be less than $100.00 for resale.

The RAC is not there to provide you with goods that you cannot afford to pay for in cash. They are there to make money.

Why not buy a used system for cash next time thus avoiding paying too much?