{"id":138,"date":"2008-05-24T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T22:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:43:08","slug":"thiefavailable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"ThiefAvailable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been told yester-day that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">GeekAvailable.com<\/a> (<abbr title=\"also known as\">AKA<\/abbr> <q><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">Geek Available<\/a><\/q>) would close to-day at 15:00, I arrived at their suite at 14:10.  No prize for guessing that they were completely closed-up.<\/p> <p>Had they told me yester-day that they would not be open to-day (in spite of their having been there the previous Saturday), I could have picked-up my computer in the late after-noon yester-day.<\/p> <p>I left an angry message on their answering machine, noting that I'd been told that they'd be open until 15:00, and explaining that, when I got home, I would file a complaint with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbb.org\/\">the Better Business Bureau<\/a>, that if that didn't produce satisfactory results then I'd take them to court, and that the reason that I was going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbb.org\/\">the <abbr title=\"Better Business Bureau\">BBB<\/abbr><\/a> first was because it would actually take more out of the hide of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">GeekAvailable.com<\/a> to have an outstanding complaint there.<\/p> <p>I have indeed filed the complaint.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having been told yester-day that GeekAvailable.com (AKA Geek Available) would close to-day at 15:00, I arrived at their suite at 14:10. No prize for guessing that they were completely closed-up. Had they told me yester-day that they would not be open to-day (in spite of their having been there the previous Saturday), I could have [&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-138","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\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}