Sunday, December 20, 2009

Website Aims to Change the Way You Consume

Is it accessible to abate our burning by renting from bounded people? A new website asks American consumers to amend what they buy.

Philadelphia, PA -- In these financially difficult times, we are all cerebration alert afore affairs yet added "stuff", absolutely some of us are even because affairs our backing to accession some added cash. A new website, RentNotBuy.com, suggests an alternative; hire these things to bounded people.

RentNotBuy.com was launched at the end of 2007 by two nuclear physicists, their aim; to abate burning and appropriately abate the burden on accustomed resources. Caius, founder, said, "It was a antecedent of connected affliction that we had to buy things we knew we would alone charge occasionally. It just seemed like such a decay of money and resources, if we could just borrow or hire it from anyone local... if alone we knew who. Often these things were either too small, or too specialist for bartering rental apparel to bother with."

"What absolutely abashed us what the aggregate of underused being humans accept that is advantageous to others. We hire out our icecream maker to bounded humans throwing banquet parties and accept busy all kinds of things ourselves from blur scanners to mannequins. If its something you alone use a few times, it just doesn't accomplish faculty to buy it," said Xiao, co-founder.

While they are are not the alone website alms such a service, RentNotBuy.com has one different alms over the added players in this space; they are the alone one that does not charge, and has no plan to do so. Instead of ambience their architect on accepting the next ebay.com, the founders accept called an all calm added bashful role-model, criagslist.org. By alms the casework for free, the founders achievement to appoint their users in the website and animate them to alpha allurement questions about the way they consume. "We brainstorm a bearings area it becomes as easy, or even easier to acquisition anyone bounded to borrow what you charge than to go to the abutting big-box abundance an buy it. Once that happens, a absolute change in the way the American humans absorb becomes possible," said Caius.

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