{"id":303,"date":"2006-05-27T08:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T06:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=303"},"modified":"2006-05-27T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T06:51:57","slug":"aka-sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"a.k.a. sucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/genista\/151973320\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/54\/151973320_a714ad2018_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/genista\/151973320\/\">Tiger Direct (image similar)<\/a><br \/>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two months ago, the attempt to add a new harddrive to our old home PC backfired gloriously, with first the harddrive not being recognized, and then the onboard controller dying in the fray. Reluctantly I decided to upgrade the main system components, and so I bought a mainboard, processor and memory from Tiger Direct, completing the simple harddrive upgrade, and left with essentially a completely new system. The decision was eased by a substantial rebate offered by Tiger on two of those components.<br \/>\nWhen it came to claiming these, however, I found that after collecting several documents and tediously typing in information on a rather complex online page, I still had to send in quite a bit of paperwork, so that I then might receive a check in the mail six to eight weeks later. If prepared the letters, put them in my jacket to take to the post office and forgot them there.<br \/>\nSix weeks later I stumble across them, finally send them off, only to then learn that of course the rebate can&#8217;t be honored any more, because the time window closed. I write them a friendly email asking for mercy, and receive a cut and paste decline.<br \/>\nValued customer, that&#8217;s me.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Direct (image similar) Two months ago, the attempt to add a new harddrive to our old home PC backfired gloriously, with first the harddrive not being recognized, and then the onboard controller dying in the fray. Reluctantly I decided to upgrade the main system components, and so I bought a mainboard, processor and memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,46,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-englisch","category-jigsaw-pieces","category-minis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}