{"id":48,"date":"2005-03-01T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:43","slug":"dell_sued_for_the_old_bait_and_switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/03\/01\/dell_sued_for_the_old_bait_and_switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Sued For The Old Bait-and-Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/bus-news\/article.php\/3485221\">InternetNews.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two Dell customers in California have filed class-action lawsuits against the company for what their lawyers call bait-and-switch marketing tactics.<br \/>\nSan Francisco residents Rosemary M. Weber and Jonathan V. Holtzman say they got a bum deal when it came to ordering through Dell&#8217;s catalogue. Both complained they had been pressured by salespeople with promises of either low-cost financing to lure them into installment payment schemes or better quality equipment than had been delivered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From InternetNews.com: Two Dell customers in California have filed class-action lawsuits against the company for what their lawyers call bait-and-switch marketing tactics. San Francisco residents Rosemary M. Weber and Jonathan V. Holtzman say they got a bum deal when it came to ordering through Dell&#8217;s catalogue. Both complained they had been pressured by salespeople with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}