Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800

wahming@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some things just shouldn’t be allowed, especially when this is aimed at the most vulnerable of society.

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  • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, what is it specifically that shouldn’t be allowed here? Renting items? Setting prices higher than somebody else?

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    • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In this case it’s through the Centrelink specific Centrepay system. Given it’s a government approved system they can presumably remove approval of this company for any reason, so it doesn’t have to reach some level of legal obligation, just an obvious to everyone ethical one.

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    • Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Usury is a crime in most places. This kind of transaction is just usury dressed up in the legal fiction of a rental.

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      • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I dunno, seems like a pretty big stretch to call equipment rental usury.

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• FuckyWucky@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  are you anti consumer protection?

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• UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blaming the victim here seems especially low.

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  • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shrug. The way I see it, they made major league purchases without the slightest market research. Why does that make them a victim, rather than just somebody with the financial wisdom of a 5 year old?

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    • UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In other words you have an “I got mine” attitude about demographically vulnerable people getting exploited. congratulations

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      • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re not exactly answering the question here.

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    • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i hope someone breaks your knees

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• Getawombatupya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly. Houso’s gonna houso. If she’s going to put her whole life on new item afterpay, you deserve the stupid. This is someone who grew up in these communities and most get next gen tech and second hand/scratch and dent appliances. Just because you didn’t finish school doesn’t mean you can’t be shrewd

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  • FuckyWucky@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    are you pro-elderly people being scammed by ‘tech support’?

    This 100% qualifies as an unscrupulous trade practice. The pricing is exploitative targeting vulnerable people, making them sign opaque contracts money directly from disability pension and making consumers think there is some level of state approval with the centrepay thing.

    It is the job of the state to protect people from these things especially considering they are operating formally.

    You are the one who is uneducated for spewing dogshit like this. You are the one who needs to be sent to a re-education camp.

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    • Getawombatupya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The elderly these days were early to middle aged when the internet became a thing. In the 80s and 90s there was Skase, 419, fucking beanie babies as an example. Ignorance is not an excuse.

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      • usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        fuck that. People should not be preyed on for not keeping up with internet trends

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  • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am apparently the next Mussolini though, if you go by the rest of these comments. It’s like nobody gives a fuck about education any more.

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