dbv865
United States of America#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, January 31, 2010
biddeford aarons is a joke. i am a former employee of that place. the find every way possible to rip you off and steal your money, you can thank jimmy the greek for that. he owns the place and is the reason that place will go downhill. my advice is rent a center. atleast they treat you like a human and not a piece of dirt. jeremy bowman is just like jimmy the greek. cares bout noone but himself, customer service is at the bottom of the list. i hear bout him and aarons all the time and how they USED to go there and now they go to colortyme and rentacenter now. good choice if you ask me. they say they fix your computer when really they just run a defrag or something so it looks alittle better. trust me when i say going to aarons is a waste of time and money, they will say anything to get you to spend your money. ps- jimmy the greeks is horrible too. burnt dog crap on a plate.
Emiami
Morrisonville,#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, May 15, 2009
The woman stated she had problems with her laptop. I worked at an Aaarons store here in Upstate NY for a while and have seen first hand the problems with MANY computers. First off your smart to save your money and buy outright. The amount you will spend over 12 or 24 months on a computer is ludacris unless you take full advantage of 90 days same as cash. However,on the 90 days same as cash option you are still paying 10-20% above most retail giants prices. At Aarons profit is number one as with any other business. The advantage is that they are catering to the growing percentage of the population who are living paycheck to paycheck and in most cases have poor credit. When leasing an item to a customer it is always more profitable for the store to recieve monthly payments and not have the customer pay off in 90 days or less. In fact only once in a blue moon does one pay off in that short a time. In fact many people default on their lease and if they do return the item it is released to someone else. I have seen the same laptop leased to 5 different customers. Each time the computer came back dirty and infected with malware, viruses and system registry errors. At Aaarons we would just "certify" the merchandise. In other words wipe it down and clean most of but not all of the crap out of the computers hard drive. If the merchandise is a couch or loveseat we "rug doctor" it and use a little "Febreese". With funiture we use wax touch up crayons to fill in the scratches and furniture polish to finish. Beware, you have no idea how many times most of the "pre-leased" items in the store have been leased. This is how the store makes its profit. There was even one case in which we picked up a living room set from a woman who had passed away the previous day and re-leased it a week later! Mattresses are constantly re-leased (very disgusting). The point of this reply was to uncover some of the truths about the RTO (rent to own) business so that cosumers are aware of what they are getting into. Please save your money and buy new. If you pay for 24 months or even 12 months on something and spend 3-4 times the amount with fees, than you have the ability to save up for what you want to buy. "Do the Math", if you take $219.00 per month for a junky Mactavish sofa and loveseat. Instead save $219 a month for 12 months than you will have $2,628.00 to purchase a top quality sofa and loveseat that will last you 10-15 years.
2sneaky4u
Biddeford,#4UPDATE Employee
Fri, December 19, 2008
this is jeremy bowman reporting in since me name is so clearly listed. this is my stores first report on here. i find it funny that it was who it was and we both know who it was. all my customers love the program we run here. we offer 5 days aging 5 days to contact us and let us know when they will be in to make it easier on them. and customers do great with it. we do get a few bad apples who cant handle a 2 minute phone call with in five days. i think everyone who knows the rto business will agree that a 2 week 1st payment default is pretty bad. by the way the computer was just fine. it just needed some system cleaning which many customers neglect to do and i am always more than happy to do for them. so dont worry business is better than ever so get used to seeing Aarons Sales and Lease on 380 elm in Biddeford ME. we are not going any where.