So on eBay you can buy everything under the sun, Craigslist gives you options for buying and renting too, and opportunities to drop too much cash on new items via your internets abound.
What if you just need to use something as opposed to owning it?
What about a site devoted only to rentals of tech, sporting goods, tools and just about anything else you might need, but can’t justify buying? Rentalic.com is trying to be that site, and it’s a pretty good execution of a really good idea. It brings so-called “owners” and “borrowers” together, and it’s built with the PayPal API to facilitate payment between the two parties. The service is free to the renter; owner of the items is charged 5% of the rental fee.
Lots of commercial renting facilities charge really high prices for things like landscaping equipment or video equipment, and unfortunately they price items high enough that it’s sometimes tempting to just buy an appliance that you know you’ll use once or twice, for lots more than you want to spend. There should be cheaper rental options, and maybe it’s with people who have thousands of dollars worth of stuff they hardly ever use in their closets and garage. For them, renting it out might be a way to get some of that money back!
