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Sites like adorn.com, bag borrow and steal, and rent the runway all allow users to rent very expensive items for a short period of time. I'm curious how they all protect against consumer fraud?

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The same way car rental firms do. They have your credit card, you signed an agreement agreeing to pay for the item if not returned, and they block out a portion of the credit on your card in advance of sending you the goods. – Gary E♦ Feb 6 at 20:46

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It is probably built into the cost. They will pretty quickly gather demographics data that shows how many items go "missing", where those users are, etc. Anything that disappeared in the mail would be covered by the courier.

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Can anyone help rephrase thsi question so its not closed? – Monil K Feb 8 at 2:36

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