The underlying strength of the home appliance trial service

Rentio, a home appliance trial service that turns your home into an experience-based showroom. It is an excellent item that you can carefully try and consider expensive home appliances. Avoiding wasteful shopping is also a sustainable action! (Photo: Domani Editorial Department)

Hello. This is Fumiko Oshima, a branding coach. This week we are introducing the home appliance trial service "Rentio". Founded in 2015, this service by Rentio Co., Ltd. is now a home appliance trial service that can be used without purchasing the latest 3,054 carefully selected products. You can rent and use everything from cameras to household appliances and strollers such as iRobot, SHARP, SONY, Panasonic, siroca, BALMUDA, GoPro, YA-MAN, and Combi.

■ Users use these 2 patterns 1: Don't buy only for the time you need It is a camera for rental travel, a baby rack for only a few months when the baby is small, a high pressure washer for general cleaning, etc. What is really necessary? Rent at a lower price than buying for a period of time. 2: Rental to actually try and consider whether it is worth buying Rental to consider whether you should buy it after trying it with Lentio before buying it and knowing all the good points and bad points by actually experiencing it. Turn your home into an experiential showroom.

In the case of rental considering purchase, it is possible to return the rental item within the period and purchase a new item, or continue to use it for the monthly rental fee. Lentio is a service that makes it possible online to "try it out first, buy it if you think you need it, and return it if you decide you don't need it." How to streamline the time and effort of cleaning... This is a problem that everyone has. I'm the type of person who doesn't like vacuuming every day. It was the first generation robot vacuum cleaner Roomba that I purchased when it was released more than 10 years ago. I remember immediately making a very big purchase for myself at the time because of the joy of having someone other than myself automatically clean the floor.

However, this first-generation model cleans reasonably well, but it takes a lot of maintenance work... Days when it takes time to clean the roomba that cleaned the floor. Care was neglected before long, and it broke down immediately. Even the trouble of sending it out for repair was spared, and it was left on the shelf. (Maybe it's still there...) About 10 years later. After overcoming the trauma, I purchased the same robot wiper vacuum cleaner "Brava" made by "i Robot". This was a huge success!! With two cleaning modes, a dust-removing sheet and a water-wiping sheet, your floors will be shiny. Moreover, it is also very active at night because it is almost silent. Except for the carpet space under the table, this Braava is an excellent machine that you can leave the daily cleaning to.

■ Trial plan for "Lentio x iRobot" Braava's battery broke in about two years, so I bought a new battery, but it went out of order again in about two years. This time, when I was investigating whether to buy a new Braava, my favorite, or to use another model, I came across the "Robot Smart Plan+" trial plan for "Lentio x iRobot". "Robot Smart Plan+" is the same price for all types of Roomba, and a two-week trial course is 1,980 yen. It is a plan with benefits that allows you to easily try each Roomba model or Braava Jet. It's been 10 years since the first Roomba, and the latest Roomba seems to have evolved.

Would you like to replace Braava or buy the latest Roomba? ── Reserve a two-week trial course for “Rumba i3+” Completed a reservation for a two-week trial course for “Rumba i3+” from the official website of Lentio. A delivery date calendar is displayed for each model, and payment is OK with Amazon Pay. Your personal information is shared by Amazon, so registration is quick. My first impression was that the service was very easy to use.

Rumba applicable models for the two-week trial course range from "i7+" with a selling price of 140,000 yen to "e5" with a selling price of 39,800 yen, the same amount of 1,980 yen. From my budget at the time of purchase, I decided on the intermediate model "Rumba i3 +" and made a reservation. After the reservation completion email, I received a delivery schedule email with details two days before the reservation arrival date. There are detailed details from the arrival to the opening, setting, and return with each link, which is very kind! The design of the service, which makes you feel that you can reduce the anxiety of renting things even a little, is excellent.

■This is what I received! It is "Rumba i3+" that arrived at the specified time on the specified date. Following the advice in the e-mail, I opened the package while taking pictures so as not to be in trouble when returning it. In addition to Rumba's instruction manual, Lentio's usage guide, delivery note, return slip, and tape used for packing when returning are included. Setup is complete with the instruction manual and the iRobot app! You have successfully started your trial! ──What if you want to continue from the “trial course”?

This Rentio x iRobot trial 2-week course has a special benefit, and if you switch to the worry-free continuation course (monthly rental) after the course is over, you will receive a full cashback ( In addition, the monthly fee for the Anshin Continuation Course is also free for one month), and if you purchase the product at the iRobot official store, you will receive a discount of the same amount as the two-week course fee from the product price. What I feel now after trying the Roomba at Lentio is the satisfaction of being able to experience the size and sound of home appliances, and the results, which I can understand at home. If Braava is a cat, is Roomba a dog? The difference in power in the room that seems to be. and detergency. Most of all, I was surprised at how easy it was to clean. I think that you can't understand the power to remove this garbage and the hassle of garbage disposal in the Roomba unless you experience it at home.

I also linked the app with Amazon echo, so I can say "Alexa, ask Roomba to start cleaning" and it will start cleaning. ■Various choices for home appliance trials In addition, the choice of how to introduce has expanded at the same time as considering the model. In the case of "Rumba i3+", the purchase price is 79,800 yen (tax included), but the monthly subscription fee is 2,480 yen (tax included). It seems that if the monthly payment continues for 3 years, it will be free after that, so I will pay 89,280 yen, which is about 10,000 yen higher. However, it can be returned at any time after the 6th month, and defects and failures within 12 months will be repaired free of charge, so you can return it after a year and rent a new model again. By using the home appliance trial service, we have opened up the option of subscription.

Roomba's trial period is still full, so I'll take it slow. The whereabouts of my home's Rumba VS Brava is again. There are a wide variety of home appliances to try at Lentio. There are many home appliances that intrigued me but made me feel uneasy about purchasing them. Why don't you try new home appliances and recharge your energy this winter when the stay home has been revived? I'm also planning to try a massage gun or a beauty appliance next time!

Fumiko Oshima We are active mainly in branding support, PR and sales promotion for fashion, department stores, cosmetics, and lifestyle miscellaneous goods. Six years ago she started a company called Bloom & Glow Co., Ltd.

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