{"id":4998,"date":"2013-09-21T22:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2013-09-22T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T02:42:21","slug":"paying-way-too-much-and-you-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/paying-way-too-much-and-you-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Way Too Much And You Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I needed to purchase this small cord to help setup a system and unfortunately a lot of the small shops were closed.  As a result, I had to go to a big box retailer that I new would be opened but would charge an arm and a leg for it.  Sure enough, what you would normally pay maybe $2 for at a small store they were charging about $25.  You bet this was a hard purchase to swallow.<\/p>\n<p>While I did end up buying it, fortunately I was able to obtain another one and so as a result I can return this overpriced one.  I was thinking ironically too where if the item was actually at a fair price I may have considered simply keeping it.  Then again, I suppose the big box store strategy in this case is that people will pay for convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I needed to purchase this small cord to help setup a system and unfortunately a lot of the small shops were closed. As a result, I had to go to a big box retailer that I new would be opened but would charge an arm and a leg for it. Sure enough, what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12143,"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":[4522,4521,123],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-big-box-stores","tag-overprice","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0768-1300x866.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1iC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","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=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}