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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Parker on July 04, 2013, 06:53:21 AM
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Ahh, the latest in "buy now, pay later"...payment plans...you WANT that flat screen TV, but you don't have the funds? Easy, get it and pay for it in monthly installments. Never mind the fact that if you can't afford it, you probably can't afford paying your rent, water or electric bills...
http://m.fingerhut.com/ (http://m.fingerhut.com/)
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the fuck?
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Fingerhut has been around since I was a little kid, actually before that. And I am 54. I remember my mom and dad buying shit from them. My dad always referred to them as Fingerbutt.
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Fingerhut has been around since I was a little kid, actually before that. And I am 54. I remember my mom and dad buying shit from them. My dad always referred to them as Fingerbutt.
Fun facts: Fingerhut is a German for Finger Hat, it is also the name of an extremly poisonous plant.
(http://www.naturparkfotos.de/photoportal/photos/77735?page=5)
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Fingerhut has been around since I was a little kid, actually before that. And I am 54. I remember my mom and dad buying shit from them. My dad always referred to them as Fingerbutt.
I never knew about them until a few months ago...
Someone who couldn't afford something that they didn't need, but wanted went thru them. Yet, they complain about putting gas in their car, and other things. Priorities in America: Cable, electronics, drugs.
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I never knew about them until a few months ago...
Someone who couldn't afford something that they didn't need, but wanted went thru them. Yet, they complain about putting gas in their car, and other things. Priorities in America: Cable, electronics, drugs.
You left out guns. We love our guns Parker.
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What a weird name.
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You left out guns. We love our guns Parker.
Yep, forgot that. Especially on the 4th of July...guns and fireworks.
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i would rather fingerslut
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That's old school, they been around forever.
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That's old school, they been around forever.
like Amway (scam)?
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like Amway (scam)?
No scam.
They're legit, I think my parents still get catalogs from them. When I was a kid they use to get shit from there.
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No scam.
They're legit, I think my parents still get catalogs from them. When I was a kid they use to get shit from there.
What is your age BD...no homo.
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Will be 32 this year :P
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They send us "our last catalog ever unless we order NOW" every month.
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Ahh, the latest in "buy now, pay later"...payment plans...you WANT that flat screen TV, but you don't have the funds? Easy, get it and pay for it in monthly installments. Never mind the fact that if you can't afford it, you probably can't afford paying your rent, water or electric bills...
http://m.fingerhut.com/ (http://m.fingerhut.com/)
my grandmother, mother's mom, was the fingerhut queen when i was like 5 or 6. I'd say they are more legit than Amway. Someone's wife in my old hood got scammed by Amway for 10k or some number like that.
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my grandmother, mother's mom, was the fingerhut queen when i was like 5 or 6. I'd say they are more legit than Amway. Someone's wife in my old hood got scammed by Amway for 10k or some number like that.
ha...I see more people using it now..people who said that they don't have money for XYZ, all of a sudden have a ton of electronics. I told one person to just go to the pawn shop.
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like Amway (scam)?
Totally different.
Fingerhut doesn't market itself as a "business opportunity" ; it is just a catalogue. You don't have to "recruit" a "downline" ::)
True, the interest rates are high, but Fingerhut reports monthly to credit bureaus, so if a person is smart and just buys an inexpensive item and pays the small monthly payment, he can rebuild credit if he has hit rock bottom.
Obviously, people with decent money and good credit are really Fingerhut's target customer base so they rarely get catalogues from the company.
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Nothing new about fingerhut. I remember my parents ordering from them when I was a kid. Was fun to look through the magazine, kinda like skymall.
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Reminds me of that 12 CDs for a penny deal back in the day that you could order at 12 years old but they couldn't do shit to you on the agreement to buy more regularly priced albums afterwards. ;D
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Reminds me of that 12 CDs for a penny deal back in the day that you could order at 12 years old but they couldn't do shit to you on the agreement to buy more regularly priced albums afterwards. ;D
exactly...
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exactly...
I used to load up on that one. Seems like there was a couple different companies putting out that deal.
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Reminds me of that 12 CDs for a penny deal back in the day that you could order at 12 years old but they couldn't do shit to you on the agreement to buy more regularly priced albums afterwards. ;D
Columbia House Tape your penny to the business reply envelope.
I had at least five accounts with them: First Name Middle Name Last Name, First Name Middle Initial Last Name, Middle Name Last Name, First Name Last Name Junior, and Ralph Gomez
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Fun facts: Fingerhut is a German for Finger Hat, it is also the name of an extremly poisonous plant.
German for thimble. Thats one of those things I learned the german name long before the english. Despite being 3rd and 4th generation american, my maternal grandparents still spoke german as children, and would mix it a bit as adults. Only once I got into grade school did I realize that some of the words I knew were not english.
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exactly...
The whole act of needing/wanting good credit tells you how bad our debt culture is
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we used to say 'the finger butt catalog arrived"
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:D ;D
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Fun facts: Fingerhut is a German for Finger Hat, it is also the name of an extremly poisonous plant.
(http://www.naturparkfotos.de/photoportal/photos/77735?page=5)
I'm pretty sure that "fingerhut" means "thimble" in german.
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I never knew about them until a few months ago...
Someone who couldn't afford something that they didn't need, but wanted went thru them. Yet, they complain about putting gas in their car, and other things. Priorities in America: Cable, electronics, drugs.
Whats really amusing is that all their catalogs are filled with black families in them and they also have things in there catering to black people such as fake gold necklaces and chains, various Jesus things and really tacky wall prints and african "art"
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Columbia House Tape your penny to the business reply envelope.
I had at least five accounts with them: First Name Middle Name Last Name, First Name Middle Initial Last Name, Middle Name Last Name, First Name Last Name Junior, and Ralph Gomez
Oh yeah that's what it was.