About 3 years ago I bought a Dell laptop on credit and it allowed me to pay it off over time. Are there any scanner retailers that allow you to buy a GRE PSR-500 and make payments?
Any scanner retailers that offer credit?
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Gilligan said:
Just use a credit card
Radio Shack does on any purchase over $199, But it's really just a credit card that can only be used at RS. Ebay has financing on anythng over like $200 or 250, but again I think it's just a credit card through PayPal.
Airdorn
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Why not save up and pay cash? That way you don't pay 2x the amount by getting on payments. 
AZScanner
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Plenty of them do. You send them 50 low payments of $10, and upon receipt of the 50th payment, they send you the scanner!
Seriously, look at it from the retailer's point of view. There's so little markup in scanners these days that if you offered them on a "rent-to-own" basis it would be easy for one deadbeat to kill any profit margin you might have had. No one's going to take that sort of a risk. Besides, if you qualified for dell credit, you probably also qualify for a Visa, Mastercard or (shameless plug for my current employer) Amex card, and then you can make payments on it that way.
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Seriously, look at it from the retailer's point of view. There's so little markup in scanners these days that if you offered them on a "rent-to-own" basis it would be easy for one deadbeat to kill any profit margin you might have had. No one's going to take that sort of a risk. Besides, if you qualified for dell credit, you probably also qualify for a Visa, Mastercard or (shameless plug for my current employer
) Amex card, and then you can make payments on it that way.-AZ
I'm not saying I would actually go that route but I'm just asking for curiousity's sake. I did away w/ credit cards a long time ago.
Gilligan said:
You should have one small limit card for emergencies. Capped at say $500 w/o fees. A credit union will have a good card that wont bone you on fees/fine print.
Without credit lines open, you will never improve and may hurt your credit standing. Also, it will be a MAJOR pain if you ever had to fly anywhere or rent a car.
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