Rentoid blog

How annoying is it when you try and contact a lot of web companies…. You just can’t find them or call them….. It’s as if there are no people behind the company at all!

Well not at rentoid. We want to be be able to talk to our people. Check out our contact page below…

You can call us and even see when we are on line as can be seen under the word Skype. If we are on line the green bubble will be lit up - so just get onto skype and chat to us live (Most likely Steve).

If we are off line (we sleep a few hours a day) then under the Skype word the bubble will grey as it is below. in this case don’t be afraid to email us or just call - any time. We are here to help

Cheers, rentoid team.

With fathers day coming up why not rent your Dad a motorbike for the day.  Seriously - it’s got to be better than a tired old pair of socks , tie or a singing mullet!

We all know that every guy who owns a motorbike dreams of owning a Harley but few can afford one, SO RENT ONE.

Or what about a fishing boat, a video camera to film that bbq (rented on www.rentiod.com of course) or even a sports car. How about a Porche convertable for the day at a lazy $400?

It’s all here on rentoid - a better and easy Fathers day gift.

Posted by Orangegirl

Last coffee chat was cool - fun. So it’s on again. Come join us for an espresso!

Will do other cities whenever we are in them, that’s a promise.

Where & when

Journal: Tuesday September 2nd 7am - 9.30am.
253 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
9650 4399

Google Map click here.

We can’t guarantee espress art like that above - we can promise good conversation about rentoid and whatever you want to chat about and that the coffee will be on us!

Cheers, rentoid team.

Be prepared to be blown away…. Seriously. It’s going to shock you… well kind of.

Pretty much all of our needs are temporary. We actually use our bed more than any other item we own. So what is our real usage of stuff we use much less often? When we break it down to “time available”, it’s quite surprising. I thought I’d start with our biggest expense - the car.

The average usage of cars is as follows:

10,000km per annum = 1.8% of time available

25,000km per annum = 4.7% of time available (average in Australia)

50,000km per annum = 9.4% of time available

* This means that for more than 90% of the time the car we own is idle. Which then means 2 things. We could either rent a car when we need one…. or even better rent out ours when we are not using it. Especially if it is a bit of a bomb! it’s an asset of real value just sitting there….

Imagine all the other idle assets you own which you could be making money from.

Thanks for those who tuned into the last rentoid live chat…. We’ve had both good and bad feedback. Which we can handle and appreciate. Some hated it - including my mum. LOL.

We admit we did get ’slightly off topic’ a couple of times, but we’ll continue to do them, because we know they matter to you, and….. we like it. That said, we’ll stay more focused on rentoid stuff on the next one with is scheduled for:

• September 16 2008 at 7.30pm Melbourne / Sydney time.
• www.rentoid.com/live

Chat then, rentoid team.

Our next Live Chat is tonight: 7.30pm Sydney / Melbourne time Australia, 7pm Adeladie & 5.30pm Perth.

So click here to join us it’s too easy: http://rentoid.com/live

You may remember we did a live chat session with rentoid members and anyone who cared to join us after our feature on A Current Affair.

We’d also like to make that chat as useful as possible so please leave as many questions as you like in the comments below - or ask us “Live” while we chat via Ustream.tv.

Some of the topics already on our agenda include:

• New hardware and faster site
• popular listings, most rented items
• Stuff people want and are looking for
• New features imporvements to site
• Feedback we’ve had
• Bugs we’ve had and fixed

And anything you want us to talk about, including shout outs!

We’re looking forward to chatting with you. Cheers, rentoid team.

Because everyone is asking:

Here’s a list of our top 10 searched rental items on rentoid (in order) for the past month. This is the stuff people are looking for & ultimately want to rent.

1. Fridge
2. Treadmill
3. TV
4. Boats
5. Nintendo Wii
6. Computer / Laptop
7. Camera
8. Motorbike
9. PS 3 (Playstation)
10. Caravan

You got this stuff? Then get it here on rentoid as our members are here everyday looking for this stuff to help you make money.

Cheers, rentoid team

You probably noticed we got our act together at asbout 5pm yesterday on rentoid.The site is up again with some cool improvements - including a video on the front page with my ugly mug on TV explaining how rentoid works to new members. We’ll also update this video from time to time with other helpful stuff.

We’re not sure whether it was better to be ‘down’ on a weekend or weekday…. we’re just glad we are back up and live again, and thankyou for your patience.

Steve and team.

We are still working hard to get everything back up. We expect to be up in 2 hours. Which is 7pm Sydney & melbourne time.

Chances are you’ve seen our site isn’t working just now - Unfortunately migrating to our new server (New Computer stuff for the un-nerds out there) has given us a few problems.

The reason this happened is that we need to make sure we don’t lose any of our members details / listings from the old system as we change over. In order to do this we need to shut them both down for a period of what is called migration - yes I know, more nerd speak. Sorry.

We expect to be back live again about:

2pm Australian Sydney / Melbourne time.

1.30pm Adelaide time

12pm Perth time

Posted by Orangegirl

OK….So its snowing. Its cold. Its very cold. But apperantly from all the gardening magazines it’s time to get our gardens ready for spring…brrrrr.

Dont have a hedge trimmer, rotary hoe, shovel, lawnmower, slasher, whipper snipper, or even secatures. Well, you know what to do. RENTOID IT.

Log on, click on Garage and Garden, and there you will find everything that you see on all those backyard renovation shows at a fraction of the cost. In no time you will have a pristine garden that will make all your neighbours envious.

And why not send us a picture of your new tidy RENTOID garden In fact, best garden photo sent in by a rentoid member gets a free uber cool t-shirt from Neighborhoodies of their choice. And we’ll feature all the photos sent in right here. So send ‘em in.

Send photo’s to “general AT rentoid.com” - cleary written this way to avoid spam bots.

What are you waiting for…. go get renting.

Orangegirl