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by gifnamething 1672 days ago
> it is reasonable to assume the lender has expenses to pay, such as payroll and profit seeking investors, so there must be a cost to using their financing.

>Regardless of what the marketing says, nothing is ever “free”

In a world of low-interest rates, plentiful venture capital, and penetration pricing, things are often better than free.

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Sometimes, but I do not see how it is possible in this case. That type of thing is done temporarily to gain a monopoly via network effects and then establish pricing power. If you cannot achieve that, then it is giving away money.