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Posted: 10/27/2006 2:49:38 PM EDT

Wheels. Not wheels=car, I mean they really, honest-to-God, rent sets of rims and tires. 20s up to 26s.

With college homecoming this weekend, he doesn't have a single set in the store. Just when I thought everything had been done already, some shit just amazes me.

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:51:48 PM EDT

[#1]

There are literally hundreds of those shops in Orlando

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:51:58 PM EDT

[#2]

Yeah I got a flyer in the mail for that. It will be opening in a month or so.
You can rent some 22s and tires for $155 a month. No credit check

Guess we'll be seeing some real hoopties with nice wheels and tires.

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:52:23 PM EDT

[#3]

They used to advertise the same service on the radio a LOT.

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:53:01 PM EDT

[#4]

Damn. Someone's gonna make a lot of money.

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:54:00 PM EDT

[#5]

Ya'll got inside pitcher shows ther yit?

jj

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:56:57 PM EDT

[#6]

How big of wheels can I put on my '86 Yugo?

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:56:59 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Ya'll got inside pitcher shows ther yit?

jj

Smartass. I guess things just move a little slower here.

I like it that way.

This guy was claiming something like %55 profit if people made their payments on time, and close to %200 profit if they wound up behind on payments.

I'm in the wrong bidness.

Posted: 10/27/2006 3:12:45 PM EDT

[#8]

Rent to own. First cars, then furniture, computers, cell phones.......anything that is "must have".

jj

Posted: 10/27/2006 3:21:56 PM EDT

[#9]

Was lookin at some of those stupid wheels and came to the conclusion that some of them are cheap china junk. Just adds to the ripoff factor.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:30:25 PM EDT

[#10]

Customer's Choice (a furniture rental store) in Tulsa has rent to own custom wheels. I predict it will be quite popular.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:33:03 PM EDT

[#11]

The business idea i have been looking for.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:33:11 PM EDT

[#12]

Nuttin says balla like a set of 22's on a 89 Jeep cherokee or fode exalaid.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:35:36 PM EDT

[#13]

pimpin ain't easy.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:35:47 PM EDT

[#14]

If you look at the rims in those shops you'll see most all of them are made in China, even a lot that Discount Tires has are Chinese.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:35:48 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
How big of wheels can I put on my '86 Yugo?

22
millimeters

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:37:10 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
There are literally hundreds of those shops in Orlando

St Pete/Pinellas Park area too.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:39:05 PM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:41:14 PM EDT

[#18]

The Stupid White kids in My neighbor hood are all sitting on 22's or larger.

Nothing funnier than a Chevy Caprice sittin on 24's.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:42:53 PM EDT

[#19]

Huge amounts of furs and land were acquired with this very tactic. The natives are easily gulled out of their wampum with shiney gewgaws. Same as it ever was.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:46:33 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
pimpin ain't easy.

Dubs, yo. It's all about the dubs.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:49:37 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
The Stupid White kids in My neighbor hood are all sitting on 22's or larger.

Nothing funnier than a Chevy Caprice sittin on 24's.

Amen to that. Gotta love the 89 caprice with rims that cost 5 times as much as the car.

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:51:46 PM EDT

[#22]

My perfect business would be a payday advance place and wheel/jewejry rental place all in one.

The money I could make...

Posted: 10/27/2006 4:54:10 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
My perfect business would be a payday advance place and wheel/jewejry rental place all in one.

The money I could make...

that's like selling beer, bait, and ice at the same place.

Posted: 10/27/2006 5:02:28 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
My perfect business would be a payday advance place and wheel/jewejry rental place all in one.

The money I could make...

Here you go. Good place to start.

Shiney trinkets.

Posted: 10/27/2006 5:08:08 PM EDT

[#25]

And it's going to be much easier to repo the items than RTO furniture, computers, etc. Most of the clientele won't have garages. All you need is a truck, a floor jack, and 4 CMU blocks per delinquent customer. -Jeff

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:52:52 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Huge amounts of furs and land were acquired with this very tactic. The natives are easily gulled out of their wampum with shiney gewgaws. Same as it ever was.

In a nutshell.

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:04:27 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Huge amounts of furs and land were acquired with this very tactic. The natives are easily gulled out of their wampum with shiney gewgaws. Same as it ever was.

In a nutshell.

Rent to own bling!

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:05:51 PM EDT

[#28]

I need a set of 27 inch wheels for a 1973 Pinto.
With spinners.

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:14:05 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Nothing funnier than a Chevy Caprice sittin on 24's.

Sure there is....try a mid 80's Caddie Eldo.

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:48:54 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Was lookin at some of those stupid wheels and came to the conclusion that some of them are cheap china junk. Just adds to the ripoff factor.

Well of course.. Most of it is show, not go. It's not quality that matters, just flash. If you could drill out the rims and put in blinking LED's and glow in the dark busts of the virgin mary, you'd sell the shit faster than you could get the sweatshop to crank 'em out.

Posted: 10/27/2006 8:38:56 PM EDT

[#31]

You have got to be kidding me !!

Never heard of this before, the ignorance of some and the greed of

others never fails to amaze me.

GM

Posted: 10/27/2006 8:46:39 PM EDT

[#32]

My airline leases it's tires and brakes.

No shizzle.

The 737 tires even have hubcaps.

But none of those cool stay-spinning kinds though.

Posted: 10/27/2006 8:55:07 PM EDT

[#33]

No one will ever go broke selling (renting in this case) shiny shit to idiots.

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:10:11 PM EDT

[#34]

Does anyone rent gold teef yet?

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:14:19 PM EDT

[#35]

I think this thread actually made me dumber

Who the hell would rent rims for a car?
Let me get this straight.....you would pay someone to have a certain type of wheel....for say a few days....then return it?

back in the day we would call that a poser, or a joneser....actually...both.

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:20:24 PM EDT

[#36]

Main reason Rent-a-rim shops exist:

You can take 20 points out of your IQ now.

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:40:19 PM EDT

[#37]

Do they have spinners?

Posted: 10/28/2006 4:19:13 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Guess we'll be seeing some real hoopties with nice wheels and tires.

No shit. My wife and I were in the Bahamas in April, and what surprised me the most, was that almost every vehicle down there had 20" rims and low profile tires. Even the mistu vans they used for taxis.

Posted: 10/28/2006 4:25:58 AM EDT

[#39]

There's a place like that here in Sarasota

Posted: 10/28/2006 4:47:03 AM EDT

[#40]

WOW, Just wow. I've seen it all now......

Just when I think I could never be surprized by the stupidity of man I read this, hell I expect stupidity, but this is a new high!!!

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:10:24 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Was lookin at some of those stupid wheels and came to the conclusion that some of them are cheap china junk. Just adds to the ripoff factor.

Well of course.. Most of it is show, not go. It's not quality that matters, just flash. If you could drill out the rims and put in blinking LED's and glow in the dark busts of the virgin mary, you'd sell the shit faster than you could get the sweatshop to crank 'em out.

Wow, actually, that's not a bad idea at all... you might want to patent it...

I saw something on the History Channel I thought of back in the mid '90s, can't believe that someone actually made it...

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:20:00 AM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:22:02 AM EDT

[#43]

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:22:14 AM EDT

[#44]

I think you guys are missing a part of it... many of these places are "rent to own". Makes it easier to spread out the welfare checks. I looked at their selections for my truck (I have the XL, which means 17" wheels on a full size F150. Thats a no-no

) Most of them are crap. My wheels, which will be a very conservative twenty inches, are coming from Steeda

.

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:29:29 AM EDT

[#45]

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:46:55 AM EDT

[#46]

I wonder how many sets just don't get returned.

It's a good bet that if they have to rent wheels, they're the type of folks that don't pay their bills or return movies on time.

Posted: 10/28/2006 6:48:18 AM EDT

[#47]

Those are all over the place.

Posted: 10/28/2006 7:14:28 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
alexisrael.com/images/reeims.jpg

Well, there goes another package of screen wipes.

Posted: 10/28/2006 7:26:15 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Was lookin at some of those stupid wheels and came to the conclusion that some of them are cheap china junk. Just adds to the ripoff factor.

Well of course.. Most of it is show, not go. It's not quality that matters, just flash. If you could drill out the rims and put in blinking LED's and glow in the dark busts of the virgin mary, you'd sell the shit faster than you could get the sweatshop to crank 'em out.

I am not afraid to admit that the filipino part of me really liked that idea. I guess stereotypes are true! I am failing my flip heritage by only having 18's on my "ride".

-G

Posted: 10/28/2006 7:54:26 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
My perfect business would be a payday advance place and wheel/jewejry rental place all in one.

The money I could make...

that's like selling beer, bait, and ice at the same place.

I bet you'd make a mint... if you could stand dealing with losers all day.

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