{"id":426,"date":"2008-08-31T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-08-31T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T17:30:48","slug":"amazon-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/amazon-policy-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon policy change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word is getting out about an Amazon policy change that&#8217;s about to hit, and I wanted to be clear about what this change is&#8230; and more vitally, what it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon is eliminating their <em>30-day price guarantee<\/em>. Up until now, if you ordered something, Amazon shipped it, and a couple weeks later you discovered that Amazon had dropped the price by a couple bucks, you could get a refund of the difference. Not many folks were aware of this, and you actually had to apply for it. Anyway, this policy ends starting with items <em>ordered<\/em> tomorrow (so if you had some big purchase planned &#8211; say, <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B00142HLV4\">an $850 42-inch Panasonic plasma screen TV<\/a> &#8211; make it today and get your 30 days!)<\/li>\n<li>Amazon is <strong>not<\/strong> eliminating their <em>pre-order price guarantee<\/em>. Under this, if you preorder an item that hasn&#8217;t been released yet, and the price drops some time before it&#8217;s actually released, you get the lower price. This is vital to us here at AAUGH.com, because I encourage folks to preorder books, so that they order it while it&#8217;s still in mind and get it as soon as possible. Amazon doesn&#8217;t always include the discount when upcoming projects are first listed, but with this policy, that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to hold off ordering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you can continue preordering things (say, next month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1560979488\"><em>Complete Peanuts<\/em> boxed set<\/a>) with comfort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word is getting out about an Amazon policy change that&#8217;s about to hit, and I wanted to be clear about what this change is&#8230; and more vitally, what it isn&#8217;t. Amazon is eliminating their 30-day price guarantee. Up until now, if you ordered something, Amazon shipped it, and a couple &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}