{"id":135,"date":"2008-05-23T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:40:30","slug":"fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">GeekAvailable.com<\/a> yet again to-day, after the time at which they had previously indicated that they received parts, and asked them for the status of my computer.  I was again told that they were <em>trying to get a tracking number<\/em> from the supplier of the needed part.<\/p> <p>I asked them at what time they would close to-morrow, and was told that they would close at 15:00.  I said that I would come to-morrow to pick-up my computer, as this has gone on too long.<\/p> <p>I think that it's remarkable that a business would be so <em>amateurish<\/em> as to utterly alienate a customer to try to avoid replacing an relatively inexpensive part gone astray.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">GeekAvailable.com<\/a> has already lost the cost of that part!<\/em>  Now they've <em>additionally<\/em> lost the profit associated with ordering a new part and installing it for me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I called GeekAvailable.com yet again to-day, after the time at which they had previously indicated that they received parts, and asked them for the status of my computer. I was again told that they were trying to get a tracking number from the supplier of the needed part. I asked them at what time they [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,4],"tags":[68,268,214,217,215],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-computers","tag-geek-available","tag-geekavailable","tag-laptop-repair-san-diego","tag-rodrigo-pereira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}