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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Maybe some of us don't have $1.90 to just throw around willy nilli Mister Rockefeller
And just because lol, the 4 easy payments of $0.48 isn't the $1.90 price either.
Good job, afterpay?
They just had to round up instead of rounding down, bunch of crooks
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.
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.
Eughh that's criminal
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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