Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday

CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They have late fees and can have incredibly high interest if you pay late.

  1 in 10 for $30 includes every single man, woman, and child in the United States. In reality there is a much smaller group spending much more money and developing a revolving door of debt where they are chronically in debt for non essential purchases and as soon as one of those payments goes late they will be slapped with a bunch of late fees and interest that will make them miss other payments and get even more late fees and interest until they end up underwater

  Klarna got 2.8B in revenue last year and they did it with those “interest free” loans

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    IIRC, most of the money they make is fees on the stores.

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    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It used to be but it looks like interest is becoming a big deal. Guess people are missing payments.

      174m in q3 2024 269m in q3 2025

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      • Brosplosion@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And they still lost almost 100 million that quarter

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