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Financial innovation has made life so much simpler. Whenever we have to buy something but do not have the money, we can avail of the easy option of paying in EMI. By breaking up the payment into smaller instalments, we ease the burden on our bank balance by paying a little extra in the form of interest.
While we may not like the hefty interest rates charged by our financers, we still feel relieved not having to spend the entire paycheck on one thing. All of this changed a while ago when No-Cost EMI got introduced. Gone are the days of sky-high interest rates and financing charges. No-Cost EMI is free. Or is it?
Your finance provider would have you believe that No-Cost EMI means that you have to pay no additional interest to them if you take a loan. Simply put, financing companies define it as a zero cost EMI for the cost of the product. No-Cost EMI ensures that your purchase incurs no additional fees. Sounds great, right?
If truth be told, the purpose of No-Cost EMI schemes is solely to help companies market their financial services to potential customers. As a consequence of the Reserve Bank of India banning all 0% EMI schemes, financial companies took it upon themselves to find a workaround.
No-cost EMI schemes can work in two ways. Let us look at how both variations calculate the total cost and EMI amounts.
It is now clear that either way you look at it, the financer always charges interest in some form or the other. The term “no-cost” is thus nothing but a marketing gimmick to encourage the buyers to purchase more products on EMI. The more sales that take place through financing, the higher the finance provider’s revenue.
Equal Monthly Installments (EMI) is a financial innovation that aims to make financing readily available and easy to use for all kinds of customers. Similarly, no-cost EMI also solves the same purpose while at the same time finding a way to work around RBI’s stance against zero cost EMIs.
Like all other EMI schemes, no-cost EMI suffers from the same limitations.
The only difference between traditional EMI and no-cost EMI is that with no-cost EMIs, the interest charged is often hidden, because of which a consumer assumes that it is free. In reality, both forms of EMI extract interest in some form or the other from the consumers. In the end, traditional EMIs on discounted price and no-cost EMIs on list price boil down to the same thing — the consumer is the only one who bears the cost.
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