• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        4 days ago

        You typically earn interest for granting someone the privilege of the use of your money.
        Do products in warehouse typically earn interest, or do they depreciate?

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          4 days ago

          Your username checks out, lol. At 5% APR, 30 days’ worth of interest on this $390 purchase is ~$1.63.

          And if we consider that Nike is acting as a bookmaker in this case, the house edge for a bookmaker is around that amount anyway. Nike is likely to bake this edge into their margin anyway, but I don’t think it’s likely that you’d get a bonus of $1.63 if you win this bet, in this hypothetical.

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            3 days ago

            What I’m trying to say is that this scheme gives the retailer an interest free loan on every purchase, courtesy of the customer, so fuck them for that.

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              3 days ago

              Don’t credit cards usually give 21 days of interest free grace period? So this is over ~9 days worth of interest? Fuck them for that? Not fuck them for exploiting gambling addiction, but for not giving the consumer their two quarters worth of interest?

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                Why do we have to choose just one thing to fuck them for? I by no means made this the exclusive reason to fuck them.

                I’m not talking about the interest I pay on my credit card, I mean that if they’re holding my money so that I can’t use it, they better pay me for that.

                They’d effectively be crowed sourcing micro-loans from unsuspecting average customers, without compensating them for lending. That’s icky AF. So is taking advantage of gambling addiction, but they can both be icky AF.