{"id":5866,"date":"2014-08-02T23:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T07:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2014-08-02T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T07:33:04","slug":"unnecessarily-paying-more-for-unlimited-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/unnecessarily-paying-more-for-unlimited-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessarily Paying More For Unlimited Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was funny as today I had to use the rapid transit system with a friend to get to various places.   Since the fares expire after an hour and a half or so, this means we would need to purchase multiple fares.  Because of this my friend decided to purchase an all-day pass that was about $10.  A single fare though costs $2.75 which was what I ended up doing.  Ultimately, I only had to purchase two fares.  He then couldn\u2019t believe he wasted money on the all-day pass.<\/p>\n<p>We do that many times don\u2019t we when it comes to buying service based solutions?  A good example is with a cell phone where there are many people who actually subscribe to monthly unlimited plans for a hefty price when they could easily enroll in a pay to talk plan that is cheaper for their needs. Even if it is a better value, if you don\u2019t use it then it is waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was funny as today I had to use the rapid transit system with a friend to get to various places. Since the fares expire after an hour and a half or so, this means we would need to purchase multiple fares. Because of this my friend decided to purchase an all-day pass that 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":[5087,1212,5088,5086],"class_list":["post-5866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-pay-as-you-go","tag-services","tag-single-fares","tag-unlimited-plans"],"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-1wC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866","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=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions\/5867"}],"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=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}