{"id":564,"date":"2008-02-13T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2008-02-13T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:20:37","slug":"laptops-for-less-bait-and-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Laptops For Less Bait And Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting bait and switch from <a href=\"https:\/\/store.l-f-l.com\/cgi-bin\/cp-app.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">Laptops For Less<\/a>. Here&#8217;s what you see when you first hit the site:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/lfl01.gif\" alt=\"LFL1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that the claim is for free shipping on orders over $30. Coolness. I need a replacement power cord for an ancient Compaq. But then notice what happens when you head on down the checkout path:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/lfl02.gif\" alt=\"LFL2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well how about that! My over $30 order is charged for shipping and the LFL website now shows free shipping on orders over $50. &#8220;Click for details&#8221; makes no mention of the $30 threshold, just the $50 threshold. I ordered the power cord from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.MobileTechPower.com\" target=\"_blank\">MobileTechPower.com<\/a> which also charged me shipping but were upfront about the charge. In fact, the item was $8 less expensive overall from Mobile Tech Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting bait and switch from Laptops For Less. Here&#8217;s what you see when you first hit the site: Note that the claim is for free shipping on orders over $30. Coolness. I need a replacement power cord for an ancient Compaq. But then notice what happens when you head on down the checkout path: Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}