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Parker

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Fingerhut
« on: July 04, 2013, 06:53:21 AM »
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/
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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2013, 06:54:59 AM »
the fuck?
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gym**rat

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2013, 07:00:10 AM »
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2013, 07:02:45 AM »
Quote from: gym**rat on July 04, 2013, 07:00:10 AM
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.

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Parker

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2013, 07:03:36 AM »
Quote from: gym**rat on July 04, 2013, 07:00:10 AM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2013, 07:06:59 AM »
Quote from: Parker on July 04, 2013, 07:03:36 AM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2013, 07:35:12 AM »
What a weird name.
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Parker

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2013, 07:53:21 AM »
Quote from: gym**rat on July 04, 2013, 07:06:59 AM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2013, 07:54:34 AM »
i would rather  fingerslut
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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2013, 07:55:13 AM »
That's old school, they been around forever.
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Parker

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2013, 07:58:08 AM »
Quote from: BDsauce on July 04, 2013, 07:55:13 AM
That's old school, they been around forever.
like Amway (scam)?
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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2013, 08:02:37 AM »
Quote from: Parker on July 04, 2013, 07:58:08 AM
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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gym**rat

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2013, 08:03:44 AM »
Quote from: BDsauce on July 04, 2013, 08:02:37 AM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2013, 08:05:06 AM »
Will be 32 this year  :P
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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2013, 08:07:45 AM »
They send us "our last catalog ever unless we order NOW" every month.
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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2013, 08:12:24 AM »
Quote from: Parker on July 04, 2013, 06:53:21 AM
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/

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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Parker

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2013, 08:19:42 AM »
Quote from: G_Thang on July 04, 2013, 08:12:24 AM
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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Chadwick The Beta

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2013, 01:45:45 PM »
Quote from: Parker on July 04, 2013, 07:58:08 AM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2013, 01:49:41 PM »
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2013, 02:52:26 PM »
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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Parker

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2013, 02:56:30 PM »
Quote from: polychronopolous on July 04, 2013, 02:52:26 PM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2013, 03:01:11 PM »
Quote from: Parker on July 04, 2013, 02:56:30 PM
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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Chadwick The Beta

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2013, 03:16:22 PM »
Quote from: polychronopolous on July 04, 2013, 02:52:26 PM
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.

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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2013, 07:36:18 PM »
Quote from: Stark on July 04, 2013, 07:02:45 AM
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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Re: Fingerhut
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2013, 08:45:26 PM »
Quote from: Parker on July 04, 2013, 02:56:30 PM
exactly...

The whole act of needing/wanting good credit tells you how bad our debt culture is
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