{"id":3535,"date":"2019-05-10T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T03:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T03:12:32","slug":"bad-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/bad-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are living in the era of round the clock sale. Most things are advertised to be sold at a discounted price. Even in these situations, many things could go wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some common warning sign of a bad deal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>The deal is only good for \u201ctoday\u201d<\/li><li>The seller offers \u201cfree gifts\u201d in return for \u201cminimum \u201c effort<\/li><li>A sale item is suddenly unavailable but a \u201cmuch better \u201c item happens to be available for \u201cslightly more money\u201d<\/li><li>The seller emphasizes the amount of each payment rather the total amount of sale.<\/li><li>A \u201crepair person \u201c discovers a \u201cdangerous \u201c defect in something you own that must be repaired immediately.<\/li><li>You are given little or no time to read the contract.<\/li><li>The seller makes you feel guilty for asking questions or asks, \u201cdon\u2019t you trust me?\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Excerpt from \u201cAge of Propaganda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are living in the era of round the clock sale. Most things are advertised to be sold at a discounted price. Even in these situations, many things could go wrong. Some common warning sign of a bad deal: The deal is only good for \u201ctoday\u201d The seller offers \u201cfree gifts\u201d in return for \u201cminimum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/bad-sale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad sale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}