Consider the story of this rent to own victim found by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Monica Yant Kinney: Rita Hart signed up for a sleeper sofa with a cash price of $1,611.48, made weekly payments of $37.53, and eventually purchased it for $3,222.96. The first time she and her husband tried to sleep on it, he got hurt—the frame was broken. Despite the built-in mattress and its being advertised as a sleeper sofa, Rent-a-Center had the nerve to tell her it wasn’t designed to be slept on.
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