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[–] Ryoae@piefed.social 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Furniture rental services are the devil's work, it really is.

Semi-related, my family had rented furniture before. We had rented like this bedroom set and a wardrobe. It's ludicrous to be into doing that. That's why I thrift for furniture. Will I ever come across a PS5 thrifting? Probably never, not unless it's just the shell of the console itself but even then someone will take it.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

recently a friend managed to snag a perfectly fine used ps5 for 200€. i think that's a really nice price. buying used is just pretty epic for a lot of product categories.

[–] Ryoae@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

With the PS5 getting older, I think it's 6 years old now which is hard to believe and people anticipating the PS6. I'm not really surprised that deals are coming up like that. I think someone on the FB Marketplace wanted some $150 for a PS5.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

sure, but knowing the market for computers and computer parts there's no way sony will offer a better deal in the first few years. also there won't be many exclusive titles for the ps6, if any, especially not in the first few years.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Only use-case I've had for rental was when I was at a military school for five months. My roommate and I needed a TV in our barracks room, but there wasn't much point in buying a TV (each of us had TVs back home), so we rented one for five months. It was great. One of us also bought a Wii (dating myself here), so it was a great time.

That's about the only case I can think of renting furniture/appliances. If you are temporarily someplace and can't thrift an item at a reasonable price.