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Re:Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation ... by _verandaguy on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @09:59AM (#44876288)
The usual catch is that for now, these companies are offering it at zero extra charge because they're building up sellable corpora of data.

Whether and when this business model will change is any outsider's guess.

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Re:Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation ... by lesuorac on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:08PM (#44879849)
It's not at zero extra charge. Most of the Buy-Now-Pay-Later companies charge higher transaction fees to the merchants than say MasterCard [1].

Now, the business of accepting debt from people that uh can't repay that debt is probably going to have to change.

[1]: https://www.merchantmaverick.com/klarna-for-business/

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