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I can't decide whether this is a horribly depressing sign of the times that people need to pay off 1 nights dinner over 4 weeks, or if this is some stupid executive person thinking this is what people want when they say they can't afford to get food delivery

Por qué no los dos, I guess. But seriously, what the actual fuck

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did the math on a few "4 payments of x" and they were like 150% the actual purchase price.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, in this case it looks like they bake the price increase into the payments so they can claim it is "interest free".