{"id":22177,"date":"2013-02-28T17:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18604"},"modified":"2016-09-19T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:26:19","slug":"returning-items-from-amazon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/returning-items-from-amazon-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Items From Amazon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=travwithmir05-20\">amazon.com<\/a> shopper for years. This week, for the first time ever, I had to return something. It turned out that the description on the site was missing some key information and the item was not right for me. It was only about $5, so I decided that I would try for a refund and if the return wound up being a big hassle, I would just eat the amount.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Amazon won&#8217;t let me return the item. I tried to go through the return process and got a message that said I&#8217;m a valued customer, so I can keep the item AND get my refund! Wow! I&#8217;m thinking that the cost of the item and my shopping history (no refund requests ever) prompted this decision.<\/p>\n<p>I will still be able to use the item, so being able to keep it is a nice bonus. And, geeze, there&#8217;s no reason to be so mysterious, it&#8217;s a recorder (the musical instrument) with an uncommon fingering style. So once I dredge up 25 year old skills on the more standard type, I can graduate to this other one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been an amazon.com shopper for years. This week, for the first time ever, I had to return something. It turned out that the description on the site was missing some key information and the item was not right for me. It was only about $5, so I decided that I would try for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}