{"id":946,"date":"2021-08-26T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=946"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:55:39","slug":"sometimes-you-do-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2021\/08\/26\/sometimes-you-do-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Do Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-948 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/for-the-win-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/for-the-win-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/for-the-win.png 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I had a recent online shopping experience that was initially frustrating but in the end turned out in my favor.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how it played out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a relatively obscure CD from a third-party merchant via Amazon.\u00a0 The package arrives and it is empty.\u00a0 Just an air-filled bubble package, nothing else.\u00a0 With shipping I paid about $7.00.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted Amazon and got a refund.\u00a0 Because it was from a third-party there were no more in stock, so a refund was my only option.\u00a0 Ok, great, but I still wanted the CD, so I got back on Amazon and purchased the same CD from a different third-party merchant.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, because of rewards on my credit card available, instead of paying $7-ish I ended up paying 17 cents!\u00a0 Shipping and sales tax\u00a0 included in that 17c.<\/p>\n<p>See?\u00a0 Sometimes you can win!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a recent online shopping experience that was initially frustrating but in the end turned out in my favor.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how it played out&#8230; I ordered a relatively obscure CD from a third-party merchant via Amazon.\u00a0 The package arrives and it is empty.\u00a0 Just an air-filled bubble package, nothing else.\u00a0 With shipping I paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-happy-happy-joy-joy","category-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}