QUOTE
"Not true at all. Most auto parts stores rent these tools out. All you
do is buy it and return it. That is what you are supposed
to do. How is that the wrong option to give?"
RESPONSE
Renting and buying are different. When you rent something, it is understood that
you are going to use it and bring it back for someone else to use. When you buy
it, you are purchasing for your own private use to keep, not to return and let
others use it. Most people see it as dishonest when you "buy" something just to
use it and return it. It is the "Wal-Mart Syndrome". It gives you a white-trash
sorta reputation. If you honestly don't think there is a difference, open your
own business and sell things. See how you feel when people "buy" something, use
the hell out of it, then return it just because they're done with it. Then
you're stuck with a used product that you cannot sell for full price. I don't
think it's necessarily "wrong" but I couldn't do it. Hell, I have a hard time
returning things to stores because I'm dissatisfied with it let alone something
that I just used because I'm a cheap bastard.
Look at it this way. You get a brand new power painter for your birthday. You
have no need for it so you decide to sell it. Somebody buys it from you, paints
their whole house and makes it lok sweet. Then they decide to return the painter
to you because they said they don't like it or whatever. Now you have a nasty,
dirty, used painter and he has a sweet looking house for free. Had you "rented"
him the painter, you could've kept the money for him using it.
