{"id":2285,"date":"2009-12-17T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/12\/17\/my_reward_for_being_a_good_customer"},"modified":"2009-12-17T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:43:26","slug":"my_reward_for_being_a_good_customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/12\/17\/my_reward_for_being_a_good_customer","title":{"rendered":"My reward for being a good customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d forgotten that I&#8217;d been on Borders&#8217; mailing list, which happened after I agreed to fill in some sort of survey after buying a book in the Kingston branch.  I got various mailshots which gave me \u00a35 off books costing more than \u00a325 (useful when buying computer books) and, on one occasion, 50% off (I used that to buy a \u00a340 book on Qt, as I recall).  Well, now that the firm are going out of business, I get an invitation to join their &#8220;Customer Club&#8221;, &#8220;just in case their circumstances change&#8221;.  I have to fill in a survey, and what do I get in return?<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a340 Virgin Wines voucher!<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, I won&#8217;t be joining.  How is a company that&#8217;s already in administration have the resources to hand out freebies to &#8220;loyal&#8221; customers who&#8217;d been back a few times because they&#8217;d had sweeteners?  Don&#8217;t they have debts to pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d forgotten that I&#8217;d been on Borders&#8217; mailing list, which happened after I agreed to fill in some sort of survey after buying a book in the Kingston branch. I got various mailshots which&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[687],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-AR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}