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Here’s a top 50 list of things which make sense to try before you buy:

1. Cars
2. Motorbikes
3. Boats
4. Yachts
5. Bicycles
6. Airplanes
7. Apple Mac (if converting)
8. Hybrid cars
9. Camper vans
10. Home gym
11. Treadmill
12. Musical Instruments
13. Wheelchair
14. Segways
15. Pram
16. Coffee machines
17. Tools
18. Gaming consoles (Wii, Playstation, Nintendo)
19. Large Arcade Machines
20. Pinball Machines
21. Pool tables
22. Expensive kids toys (before boredom sets in)
23. Snowboards
24. Snow Skiis
25. Haute Couture Handbags
26. Laptops
27. Mobile phones
28. iphone
29. Holiday homes
30. Harley Davidsons

I was also told the Husbands and Wives should fall into this category, but we don’t really rent them on rentoid….. But you can pretty much find everything else on this list.

Cheers, rentoid team.

We love this quote at rentoid…. not sure who said it first:

You have not lived a perfect day unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

If you want to check your competitors pricing, or the going rate on prices for various rental items…. then look no further than www.rentoid.com

How do we know this? Our business partners tell us all the time they and others are using our humble little (well it’s not little anymore) rental website to check prices.And it really makes sense to use rentoid for the following reasons if you have a rental business:

• Check your rental prices are not too high
• See which new items are up for rent in your particular rental category
• Use rentoid as a guide to make sure you have market leading prices

Even if you don’t use rentoid.com ‘yet’, or are not a member, feel free to take advantage of us - we don’t care.

In fact we share a whole lot ore than that with our rentoid.com business partners. So if you want to get the rentoid advantage, feel free to give us a call - contact details.

We’ve just entered the Mashable ‘Spark of genius‘ contest at rentoid.com.

Each week day we will cover a promising new startup, as part of a series we’re calling Spark of Genius. Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, each post showcases a promising new software company, and finds the unique feature that separates it from the competition.

In order to enter here is the criteria:

* Must be less than 3 years old
* Must never have received coverage on Mashable.com before
* Must have something to showcase to our readers (active site/product)
* Generating less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue

Go rentoid Go

Moore’s law in simple to understand terms states the following:

“Computing power will double every two years, for approxiamtely the same cost.”

Moore’s law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. What it means for us is simple.

Anything we form of technology we buy (Cameras, Video Cameras, Computers, Mobile Phones, Printers, Televisions, ipods….) will be virtually worthless in a year or two.

Which is why we should all be outsourcing risk of obsolescence to rentoid.com

In fact we should do the following becuase all technological equipment is outdated so quickly.

Rent out all the tech equipment we own on rentoid. This helps pay for the inevitable depreciation costs. It’s also not worth worrying about things being damaged, because things are outdated so quickly anyway, and we can protect our items with a bond on rentoid.com

Rent tech equipment we need temporarily. Knowing how quick this stuff degenerates, we should try and rent rather than buy where ever possible. Think twice before buying.

The point is this: Some things we have to own and some we don’t. Now with rentoid we can work around Moores Law by renting our tech stuff to and from each other to reduce the total cost of technology for all rentoid members.

Spread the word.

The rentoid team.

Our Chief Espresso Maker Steve Sammartino got the dewents out over the weekend and pulled together this little visuals of the rentoid vision.

Let’s look after it.

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