Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you heard me right, designer handbags for rent. You can rent your designer handbags now like you rent your blockbuster movies on a Friday night. Say what?! I kid you not. This is a fairly new concept, yet it does exist out in the market. It’s a fairly small market at the moment, but there are expectations that this concept will grow and expand. As of right now only about a hand full of companies can be found online that provide this service, if that. So, should we all rent our designer handbags now?

The answer to that question all depends, but how does all this renting business stuff work with designer handbags? Well, first off you find the site that you want to rent from. Maybe you pick them because of their selection, or prices, or by sheer Google and click. Once you decided on the site that you want to rent from you need to become a member, just like in a club. You have to be a member in order to rent. Depending on how much you want to pay for membership gauges the types of designer bags that are available for you to rent. A basic membership level is about $19.99 a month on average.

Now you’re a member, what happens now? You browse and look around, find the bag you like, and you place a request for it by putting it in your shopping bag. Just like shopping online. If they have in you see it in the mail a couple of days later. There are no time limits and some sites like you rent up to two or three handbags at a time. There are also other options for things like in case you fall in love with the bag you’ve rented and just can’t part with it or you accidently spilled something on your Juicy Couture. If you want to keep the bag you have fallen in love with you just let the rental company know and they’ll give you a quote on it based on age, condition, and popularity of the bag. If there’s damage, you can send it back to the rental company and they’ll give you a cleaning quote for the bag. Simple huh?

So after all that has been said and done, should you now go out and rent that designer bag that you’ve always wanted to have instead of buying? Well if you’re the type that loves expensive bags, but uses it for a short while then dumps it at the back of your closet and it never sees the light of day again, then you probably want to rent your designer bags. Renting is also good if you have a lot of fancy evening occasions and you only night the bag for the night. If however, you’re a collector or have attachments like me to handbags, then this is probably not the route for you. If you don’t change handbags that often, then rental may not be as cost effective. It all depends on you.

Some sites to check out if you’re interested in renting designer handbags are bagborroworsteal.com and desginerhandbags4rent.com. Â