{"id":3079,"date":"2011-07-10T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2011-07-11T03:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T11:24:58","slug":"checking-directly-with-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/checking-directly-with-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking Directly With The Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed something funny today as I was using a pricing search engine that was supposed to mass check various providers so that you can find the best rates.  I guess you can say in some ways these were like broker sites too as it was obvious that they got commissions for making sale.  While the prices seemed low, I decided to check the rates listed on the actual company sites.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the packages and prices were a lot cheaper.  While the site would list say packages that were like $400, these were conveniently missing on the broker site.  Guess that goes to show that sites like those can be a good foundation to help determine where to look for the best rates but that you should still look directly at what the provider offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed something funny today as I was using a pricing search engine that was supposed to mass check various providers so that you can find the best rates. I guess you can say in some ways these were like broker sites too as it was obvious that they got commissions for making sale. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"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":[3149,2064,3150],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-company-source","tag-price","tag-search-engines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/above-vancouver-eye-of-wind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-NF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","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=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}