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Inducing Renting Systems

  • US 20080065483A1
  • Filed: 06/29/2007
  • Published: 03/13/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for inducing renting of an item comprising the steps of:

  • acquiring an item, by a merchant in the business of renting a kind of the item;

    advertising, to induce a consumer to rent the kind from the merchant, a rebate of a consumer'"'"'s payment for rent whenever the consumer later purchases the kind from the merchant;

    renting temporarily the item to a customer other than the consumer;

    renting, without obligation to transfer title, the kind to the consumer in exchange for a payment-amount;

    calculating a rebate-amount using a portion of the payment-amount; and

    selling, after renting temporarily, the item to the consumer for a sale-price minus the rebate-amount.

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