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Can I ask a question about the potential size of the pool of victims? Do a lot of people still rent to own laptops/computers? What about electronics like tv's, stereos?

I know this used be be way popular in the mid 90's and nobody read the fine print to realie you could have bought the device 4 times over by time your rental period expired.



FTA: which has been employed on as many as 420,000 rentals




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