{"id":2740,"date":"2011-02-01T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2011-02-02T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:42:28","slug":"inconvenient-product-recalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/inconvenient-product-recalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconvenient Product Recalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What surprising news this was as I read an item I bought recently as a result of building a computer has a global defect where certain features are rendered useless.  Therefore, the company was offering full refunds.  The other interesting thing was I didn&#8217;t even notice this as I never even used that particular feature.  Even the company tried to express hoe if it doesn&#8217;t bother you then you don&#8217;t need to do a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what clicked to my mind is that even though I didn&#8217;t use the feature in question I still essentially paid for it and may have to use it in the future.  So value wise I would want it replaced.  At the same time this literally means that I would have to take the system apart and try to find a replacement which can be a lot of downtime.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is that according to the message I got you are given 90 days or so to decide if you want a full refund which gives me ample time to make a decision.  The manufacturer must be getting a ton of bad press for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What surprising news this was as I read an item I bought recently as a result of building a computer has a global defect where certain features are rendered useless. Therefore, the company was offering full refunds. The other interesting thing was I didn&#8217;t even notice this as I never even used that particular feature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6888,"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":[4],"tags":[2913,558,1144,821],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-product-recalls","tag-refunds","tag-replacements","tag-value"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-Ic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","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=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}