The place to rent anything - blog
One of our favourite podcasts here are rentoidHQ is the weekly RMIT Talking Business podcast with Leon Gettler and Garry Barker. Each week you get a short, sharp and lively discussion on business and the economy.
And this weeks episode features rentoid’s Chief Rental Guru Shannon Cooper. In the interview Shannon talks about rentoid, our history, our philosophy and our future.
And if you don’t already, be sure to subscribe to the podcast!
The cool thing about rentoid and the sharing culture that has emerged on the web recently is this:
We are all part of something much bigger than us.
Author and thinker Rachel Botsman has written a book ‘What’s mine is yours’, which features rentoid.com as one of the leaders of the movement. Which mean ‘you’ are a leader, because the site is what it is because of the people on it, not the people who built it. I’ll share more about Rachel and Collaborative Consumption in the coming weeks during the book launch, but here is a video of here speaking at TEDx in Sydney earlier this year to whet your appetite. It’s a very thought provoking talk about how cool the future can be. Enjoy.
We are continuing our Exploding Rental Myths series today, busting the often held “myth” that people only rent our their old junk…
This really is an easy one to squash. You don’t even need to look too hard for the evidence.
How old do you think these ipads are? Old junk? Hardly.
What about this Porsche? Can’t be more than a few years old.
This ‘ol Technika Washing Machine. Not what you call a clapped out piece of junk, hey.
In fact, spend a few minutes searching for anything on rentoid and you will find very few items that are old, or junk.
Sure some folks out there will try and rent out some stuff that belongs on the kerb awaiting hard-rubbish collection, and you will stumble across them from time to time. But they don’t last for long. One, because no-one rents their stuff and two, because even if they do rent it they can’t get the rental fees they want for it, so they don’t bother. Basic supply and demand rules- even in rental.
Successful rentreprenuers rent out quality items, at a fair price. To suggest anything else is just a myth.