{"id":715,"date":"2008-05-26T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T01:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2008-07-31T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:14:13","slug":"would-you-like-a-gun-with-that-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/would-you-like-a-gun-with-that-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Like A Gun With That Purchase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was passed this news about a motor company in the US called Max Motors who offers what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be one of the most eyebrow raising business strategies I have seen.  Essentially, by purchasing a car through them you have an option of receiving either a $250 gas card or a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The company is promoting this fairly heavily too as when I visited the site the message was pretty loud and clear about the gun offer as you can see here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/maxmgun.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of mind boggling in some ways to read a quote saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are aware of the gasoline and crime problem in America.  Max Motors, the Country Dealer wants to be part of the solution and not part of the problem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  <\/p>\n<p>The firearm laws must be lot more lenient down there compared to here.  From a business perspective, this will probably generate a lot of buzz and sales for them as it does almost everything such as the business doing something unique and it gets people to talk about them.  It seems so wrong though from a morality point of view.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m actually interested in seeing how that business does afterwards as while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure there will be a lot of protest, this could be those cases where for some businesses any publicity is good publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was passed this news about a motor company in the US called Max Motors who offers what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be one of the most eyebrow raising business strategies I have seen. Essentially, by purchasing a car through them you have an option of receiving either a $250 gas card or a gun. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6887,"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":[5953,931,930,928,929,927],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-strategies","tag-gas-or-gun","tag-max-motors","tag-us","tag-used-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stock.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-bx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}