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**KaPro** · 01-31-2011, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

RD, no. However i would be willing to rent a handgun when we fly somewhere, damn TSA!

Lemme know how you make out with that.

**Sui** · 01-31-2011, 11:58 AM

Good luck with getting back units from deadbeat accounts.

**Akosikojak** · 01-31-2011, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by category4

I can't imagine ever needing to rent a detector. Those that use countermeasures and see their value already have one or more, an most newbies that want to try one can do so from the manufacturer for 30 days.

^Agree w/ya.

Originally Posted by Hunter

I won't consider rental.By the time i finish paying rent i would own the thing.

^Agree w/ya and similar to Rental Cars where people beat the living shi+ out of them for the most part I think peeps would treat their RD the same (e.g oops I dropped it, and I ain't telling nobody, oh well it ain't mine type scenario), therefore your probably not getting any kind of confidence for it to working 100 percent on cue IMO.

**TurboNerd** · 02-02-2011, 02:19 PM

It's done with camera lenses and it's been successful. ( http://www.lensrentals.com/ )

It's all about how you do it and if you look professional or not. You can have a great idea but if it's poorly executed it will fail.

**lugnuts** · 02-10-2011, 11:27 AM

yea this was done already and it looks like the website is down so it must not have been profitable

**CincinnatiKid** · 02-10-2011, 11:39 AM

Down with OPP!?

**yellowcab** · 02-10-2011, 01:34 PM

I would consider renting a 9500Ci or a STi-R+ for a few weeks to see how I like it. Does the price cover installation and removal?

**stano0098** · 02-10-2011, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by yellowcab

I would consider renting a 9500Ci or a STi-R+ for a few weeks to see how I like it. Does the price cover installation and removal?

That would be the only Rds I would rent. If I really wanted to try a new detector I would buy it and sell it if I didnt want it anymore.

**ticket magnet** · 02-10-2011, 04:20 PM

I actually briefly contemplated this same idea a while back. I concluded that the average driver doesn't have enough knowledge and/or experience using a RD to take full advantage of it, nor would he/she be willing to spend the time to learn. You'd probably have to leave the RD setting in factory default or obtain travel plans from the customer in order to program the settings. Still, you'd have to give the customer a brief tutorial so he/she doesn't get pissed when ticketed with I/O for doing 100 in a 60. I can't imagine many customers making a special trip to a "RD rental store," and, as others have already mentioned, I think it would be a tough sell to car rental companies because of the "have radar, will speed (excessively)" misconception.

Still, if they could make money off of it like they do with with other options/accessories (infant car seats, GPS, pre-paid gas, extra insurance, etc.), without the adverse consequences of more wrecks, I'm sure they'd be in. But they would broker wholesale deals directly with the vendors, just like they do with their wholesale fleet of cars.

**Z06Boricua** · 02-10-2011, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

RD, no. However i would be willing to rent a handgun when we fly somewhere, damn TSA!

Actually, checking a handgun at the airport is a pretty painless experience, as long as you're not flying to/from an area where they are prohibited... but I honestly can't see why anyone would want to live in a place like that. :P

And no, I would never use a rental service for radar detectors. They work for lenses because some people only need them for certain limited situations and high-end glass can cost thousands of dollars.

Jose