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Originally Posted by Kaderin Triste
Really pissed at my landlords right now. They "upgraded" the laundry room. By getting rid of the coin-op machines and replacing them with machines that we can literally only use by downloading an app. And the app has some pretty bad reviews. That basically state that the app will lock you out of your account after you load money into it and the customer support basically saying "sorry, we can't help".
So yeaahhh....bathtub laundry it is then!
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We had a similar problem at my old apartment complex. It didn't require a phone app, it required paying on a website and then punching in a code.
I UNDERSTAND what the intent is. People just don't carry cash anymore, and they want to be able to pay straight from their account. And processing credit cards is surprisingly expensive; for something like a laundromat there has to be a LOT of traffic to make it profitable, and something in an apartment complex isn't likely to do it. That leaves them with using an app so that all of the transactions can go through some central agency that can get the economy of scale.
What I ended up doing is buying a mini-washer and mini-dryer that I could keep in my apartment. It was like $50 each. I'd run a hose from my sink to the washer and then route its drain into the toilet, and then it would just wheel out of the way when I wasn't using it. No more laundromats! It eventually paid for itself.