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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Nobody is buying a wall box on credit, but online retailers figured out if they just enable installment payment everywhere, it provides a small lift to sales at the expense of snarky comments from Lemmy.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Enabling it everywhere facilitates people purchasing things they can't afford and fucking themselves.

    The picture is funny but the real thing is filling up a cart with everything needed for a renovation, failing to pay a payment and having it cost you more than list price with the hidden, past due accounts owe us 30% interest plus fees type of paradigm.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If you need to borrow money for a renovation, a HELOC is way cheaper than a credit card.

    IDK how much we need to protect stupid people from themselves.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Not everyone has access to the financial education that teaches you how bad this is. I see so many people that don't actually understand how credit cards work because they "just got one" after signing up for a rewards program (basically, got scammed into signing up).

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Maybe some of us don't have $1.90 to just throw around willy nilli Mister Rockefeller

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And just because lol, the 4 easy payments of $0.48 isn't the $1.90 price either.

    Good job, afterpay?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This is... how that almost always works? People don't check how much it sums up to with those smaller payments and pretty much always end up paying more. Because it is so little per payment, the average person looking at this does not consider that.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s even more disturbing that Instacart does this for groceries. By the time you pay off one grocery order, you’ve probably already racked up three more grocery orders. If those were financed, then you’re really screwed.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I remember visiting my family in Brasil some 20 years ago. Lots of stores had their own financing-long-term offers. People would then continue buying without bothering with details, each buy would add to a total sum.

    There's no way to check if the total amount was correct, without including the % they had to pay for the credit, which changed every month.

    A tedious task most people didn't bother with.

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