{"id":1867,"date":"2009-12-24T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T05:22:12","slug":"online-deal-hunting-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/online-deal-hunting-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Deal Hunting Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today is the last shopping day before Christmas.  Since here in Canada we have a boxing day sale on the 26th most retailers conduct its online sales today and the in-store ones on the actual date.  Funny enough, this can actually make last minute Christmas shopping a good way to save money assuming you are not too concerned about having to give your gifts on time. <\/p>\n<p>Example, I had a family member telling me that he really needed some computer items like a wireless router.  I know that he needed a bunch of other stuff too and was able to find a pretty decent deal for all of this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/computerstuff2009box.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did find it interesting that some online stores actually have a queue system now as in previous years the sheer amount of site traffic that one receives is enough to take the whole site down.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/fsboxinglineuponline.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were some pretty laughable sales that I noticed in some places like this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/futureshop2009box.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What were they thinking?  At least I get to relax now from all the shopping and bargain hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today is the last shopping day before Christmas. Since here in Canada we have a boxing day sale on the 26th most retailers conduct its online sales today and the in-store ones on the actual date. Funny enough, this can actually make last minute Christmas shopping a good way to save money assuming you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1408,2359,351,2360,1113],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-bargain-shopping","tag-boxing-day-sale","tag-christmas-shopping","tag-deal-hunting","tag-online-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1057.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-u7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}