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Ok, so they don’t call it a ’buy’ program.

It’s a lending program, for free. With a deposit for full value so it becomes a purchase if you don’t return it in time. Same structure but the phrasing matters.

Cool idea.

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From the website it seems like they're expecting that some people will do this with the intention of renting, but then decide to keep or not get around to the return process.

The tools are almost always something they sell normally, and it keeps their accounting clean.

You'd be a silly goose to rent it and then never return it, however, as the rental tools have been used to heck and back.




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