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We were quite chuffed to learn that rentoid has been featured in a wikipedia article on peer to peer renting.

It also points to the reasons why we believe rentoid will have continue to provide a service members love. From the article: 

Peer-to-peer renting services and Platforms are often referred to as Ebay for rentals…

The fast development of this market is due to a combination of the following trends:

• Networking infrastructure and high-bandwith penetration reaching a level allowing Social Networks and Consumer-to-consumer marketplaces,
• Limited storage space in dense urban environment preventing consumers to keep all the goods they occasionally use,
• Increasing environmental concerns of consumers leading towards limitations of waste of resources and overconsumption,
• Evolution of consuming behaviors from owners to users.

We couldn’t agree more. You can read the Wiki entry by clicking here.

Although it also points out we’re not on our own, (some other similar sites recently started) it also tells us we providing a service people want the world over!

Since the launch of rentoid we’ve created an extra portal for many exisitng rental business. Some of those who’ve seen the value in rentoid include the following:

• Holiak Hire - camping & outdoors
• Little Noodles - baby hire (equipment, not toddlers!)
• Aussie motorcycle hire - obvious!
• PM Cycles - bicycle hire
• All Melbourne table & trestle hire - (yep, you’ve got it..)
• Super Juke - Juke box hire
• Baywayhire - tradesman / industrial tools
• Harley Hire Sydney - Davidson, that is.
• Ready Steady Pour - keg hire
• Murchinson Boat hire - explanation not required
• Tanks for hire - all sorts of water, deisel…
• Green Design - office plants
• Smart Amusements - everything party hire
• Little Gems - Jumping catles !
• Cafe Alfresco - coffee machines & carts
• Bayside hire - Industrial equipement
• Ruby Red Runners - Special event Red Carpet Hire

…… too many to mention, this blog entry will never end….

So, If you’ve got a rental business of some sort, best you get on rentoid.com and get some extra, high profile ‘free’ exposure.

Not everyone can afford to buy a Playstation 3 

Not everyone can afford to buy a Satilaite Navigator

Not everyone can afford some Tiffany Jewelry

Not everyone can afford a Harley Davidson

We can’t own everything, but with rentoid.com we can access anything.

We call it:          The Democratisation of Access.

Anything you need temporarily you can find or request it on rentoid. And you’ll rent it for a fraction of the cost of buying!

At rentoid we prefer people to practice Conuserism, rather than consumerism. (no, it’s not a spelling mistake)

“Conuserism”

Definition: The practice of using items already in existance rather than purchasing new items and consuming additional resources.

Conuserism is quite possibly one of the best ways we can make a positive change for the environment. Now that we can all connect digitally, we don’t have to buy everything we need.  It’s most likely someone else has in the next suburb or event the next street.

At rentoid we ask: How many ladders does the world really need?

There’s many companies involved in the ‘Carbon Capturing’ business (such as tree planting to create carbon sinks). I read some great quotes by two people involved in the Industry:

BEN Keogh: “Trees are still the only proven and quantifiable method to take carbon from the atmosphere.”

Andrew Grant agrees, but says the message has not got through to people: “If trees were viewed as technology, and they came out of a factory, then we would embrace them and plant them with speed.”

This is a big insight into the modern mind.

Although rentoid is using some ‘new technology’, the truth is that renting things from people is as old a business model as there is. It’s just that technology now makes it possible on many levels.

Sometimes the easiest wat to solve things is be learning from nature.

You can check out the article from which the quotes where derived by clicking here.

Now even credit cards have become virtual!

Visa have just launched a new virtual credit card called VCard. 

VCard credit can be bought from shops, in the same way as pre-paid mobile phone credit. The credit — up to $1000 — can then be used in place of a card anywhere that accepts Visa.

Each voucher costs $5.50, with purchases limited to the amount of credit purchased. The idea being that people who avoid shopping on the net for security fears - can now shop on line - and on rentoid.com

You can read more about it by clicking here.

Or even buy one by going to www.virtualvcard.com

You might be here because you’ve already read about rentoid.com in the Age Newspaper’s Livewire. (the ‘websights’ section to be precise) If so we’re happy you came to check rentoid out.

If you’re on this blog from elsewhere, that’s cool as well and you can do the reverse and read about rentoid.com in the Age!

Either way it’s pretty cool to be covered in the Age Livewire, and we’re glad you’re here.

If it is your first time here and you have any questions / ideas be sure to drop us a line by clicking here.

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has become the first person to buy the ultimate status symbol - his own A380 superjumbo. You can read more about it by clicking here.

We wonder if he’d put it up on rentoid.com when it’s not being used? … as we’re still trying to get our first jet airplane listed.

So if anyone out there knows a private jet owner, be sure to let us know.

Here’s a statement from  Bill Clinton regarding climate change, economic growth and distribution of income.

Bill Clinton recently said:

“The largest obstacle [to preventing climate change] is the continued clinging of people in wealthy countries and developing countries to a big idea that is no longer true - the idea that the only way a country can become wealthy and remain wealthy is to have the patterns of energy use that brought us the Industrial Age. In other words, if you’re not burning more oil and coal this year than you were last year, you’re not getting richer; you’re not creating more jobs; you’re not lifting more children out of poverty. That is no longer true.

We now know that technologies that permit breathtaking advances in energy conservation, and the use of alternative forms of energy, make it possible to grow the economy faster while healing the environment, and that, thank God, it is no longer necessary to burn up the atmosphere to create economic opportunity.”

                      Kudos Bill.