{"id":626,"date":"2008-02-28T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/product-loyalty-on-price-increases\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:41:45","slug":"product-loyalty-on-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/product-loyalty-on-price-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Loyalty On Price Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently started to do some of my taxes and as I usual I prefer to do it through digital means to save time and paper.  The funny thing was that when I went to the store to purchase the usual product it seems as though this year they increased the price by about 40% to 50%.  Just to make sure this wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just a crazy markup by the store, I did ask some of my contacts who did indeed confirm that the software creator has increased the price.<\/p>\n<p>While I still ended up buying the product anyways since I pretty much planned everything around it, usually drastic increases such as that would make me inclined to try something else the next time around.  I personally have no problem with companies increasing its prices to be able to stay profitable, but for myself anything over 20% kind of leaves a bad impression to me.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that shows too that if you become too dependent on a certain product or service you are at the mercy of paying the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fees.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently started to do some of my taxes and as I usual I prefer to do it through digital means to save time and paper. The funny thing was that when I went to the store to purchase the usual product it seems as though this year they increased the price by about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"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":[5953,5954,665,666,49,667],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-financial-management","tag-price-increase","tag-product-loyalty","tag-spending-money","tag-tax-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-a6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}