{"id":4336,"date":"2013-01-05T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2013-01-06T03:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T11:34:42","slug":"asking-about-the-hidden-fees-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/asking-about-the-hidden-fees-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking About The Hidden Fees First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was interesting today as I went to a store and the person I was with saw this coffee machine for about $7.  It was definitely a very cheap deal.  When it came to actually buying the item though it appeared that he had to pay $2 for an environmental fee.  What was funny was that cashiers were telling previous customers that they were going to be charged that fee but this time they didn&#8217;t.  So it was definitely a surprise and he felt ripped off when you see the cost of the fee in relation to how much the item was.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not something I would be inclined to ask initially though as it&#8217;s still a relatively new type of recycling fee.  Though for big purchases I usually do ask.  I suppose it&#8217;s just when things are too cheap you don&#8217;t think that there could be any kind of substantial fee to justify your time in asking.  But like in this case though it was sure a hefty fee to the point where he mentioned he probably wouldn&#8217;t have bought it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was interesting today as I went to a store and the person I was with saw this coffee machine for about $7. It was definitely a very cheap deal. When it came to actually buying the item though it appeared that he had to pay $2 for an environmental fee. What was funny was [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management"],"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-17W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","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=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4337"}],"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=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}