{"id":23928,"date":"2014-08-15T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23928"},"modified":"2014-08-14T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T22:04:59","slug":"qotd-mobile-phone-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/qotd-mobile-phone-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Mobile phone companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I recently cancelled a contract with a different provider after some gizmo broke. The company first told me the whole thing was my problem, then at the last moment offered me hundreds of pounds to stay. When your phone company starts using the playbook of an emotionally abusive spouse, this is not a market in good working order.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Harford, <a href=\"http:\/\/timharford.com\/2014\/01\/casinos-worrying-knack-for-consumer-manipulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Casinos\u2019 worrying knack for consumer manipulation: The spread of machine gambling offers a portent of other economic developments&#8221;, <em>TimHarford.com<\/em><\/a>, 2014-01-07<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently cancelled a contract with a different provider after some gizmo broke. The company first told me the whole thing was my problem, then at the last moment offered me hundreds of pounds to stay. When your phone company starts using the playbook of an emotionally abusive spouse, this is not a market in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[831,41],"tags":[86,428,547],"class_list":["post-23928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-quotations","tag-criticism","tag-marketing","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6dW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23929,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions\/23929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}