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Originally Posted by BenMcr
But you still pay it upfront, which you just said you never do?
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No, I didn't.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
If I hire a car I do indeed pay the entire cost of renting the car upfront..
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Of course you pay the entire
rental fee! You do not
purchase the car though, do you? If you rent a fiesta for a week, you pay a couple of hundred quid in rental fees. The rental company never says you have to pay 10k+ upfront for it, because you're renting it, not purchasing it.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Rental fees are just that, they don't suddenly stop when the cost of whatever is being rented is paid for, as what is being rented also need to be maintained, serviced etc. There are more costs than just the initial purchase.
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Of course, how is this paragraph relevant though? Although it answers an earlier point very well about how does vm recoup the cost of the equipment. It recoups the cost of the equipment by continuing to charge monthly rental fees long after the equipment has been paid for. It's called renting, something VM used to do....
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the concept of what renting is then.
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We will as you don't understand what renting is. Renting is not paying for the entire cost of the equipment upfront as vm are asking customers to do for tivo, then having the double cheek to ask for additional monthly rental fees on top.