{"id":4979,"date":"2013-09-13T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2013-09-13T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:44:48","slug":"runaway-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/runaway-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I signed up for a service where this representative told me that he could get me this good package deal and that everything went through.  After a few messages he told me there was a delay in the processing and that I would have to wait.  Since it had been awhile I tried to contact him with no luck and so I decided to phone the company directly about the status.  Interestingly enough, I was enrolled into a more expensive plan and it was scheduled to be installed soon.<\/p>\n<p>He was a legitimate representative for the company too as his employee ID number checked out and all.  The person on the phone then told me that they would send the person a message to get him to contact me back right away to get everything fixed up.  Unfortunately, that doesn&#8217;t seem to be happening and the install day is approaching.  That then got me thinking if this was a bait and switch.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I still have all the e-mail records and such of the agreement which I can definitely use.  It just makes me wonder how I should approach this as if this was a bait and switch it&#8217;s something that I want to make sure that they don&#8217;t try on others.  Maybe I need to approach this like a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I signed up for a service where this representative told me that he could get me this good package deal and that everything went through. After a few messages he told me there was a delay in the processing and that I would have to wait. Since it had been awhile [&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":[4],"tags":[4510,5953,559,4509],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bait-and-switch","tag-business","tag-consumer-protection","tag-salseman"],"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-1ij","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4980"}],"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=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}