{"id":2932,"date":"2011-05-05T23:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2011-05-06T05:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:35:02","slug":"wasting-free-credits-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wasting-free-credits-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasting Free Credits To Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this offer to download some free music from this site where there is a large variety of albums to select from.  Essentially, I was given about $5 and each song costs about fifty cent to download.  This was one of those situation where I am inclined to use everything up otherwise it seems kind of wasteful.<\/p>\n<p>Usually in these cases though, I often end up wasting some credit as it seems like most companies set it up in a way where it feels like you just need to pay a little extra when you have little left.  So for many, they whip out the credit card thinking they are still getting a deal.  In my mind though, that is money spent that you wouldn&#8217;t have spent normally.  So in that sense it just makes more sense to sacrifice the remaining credit if you can&#8217;t buy anything else on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Very rarely are you getting a good deal from using cash to balance out the remaining credits or reward points to buy an item from what I have seen.  Unless it is the reverse where you were going to buy something with money anyways and then the credits are going to be placed in as an after thought bonus.  That would be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this offer to download some free music from this site where there is a large variety of albums to select from. Essentially, I was given about $5 and each song costs about fifty cent to download. This was one of those situation where I am inclined to use everything up otherwise it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8992,"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":[1122,35,2103,21,1704],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-credit","tag-finance","tag-limits","tag-money","tag-offers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/drone40.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-Li","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}