{"id":15261,"date":"2016-04-07T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2016-04-06T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:21:55","slug":"amazon-conditioning-me-away-from-amazon-prime-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/amazon-conditioning-me-away-from-amazon-prime-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Conditioning Me Away From Amazon Prime Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been kicking around the thought of ordering a DVD copy of <em>Idiocracy<\/em> for a while, so I&#8217;ve searched for it on Amazon a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>I see now that Amazon will ship it to me for free if I pay through the nose:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/amazonidiocracy.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Thirty bucks for a DVD when it&#8217;s available on Amazon through third party shippers or on Walmart.com for a reasonable price:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/walmartidiocracy.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>What could account for that?<\/p>\n<p>It fits <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=amazon+prime+prediction\" target=\"_blank\">my theory<\/a> that Amazon is trying to get people used to paying for shipping again and will move Prime exclusively to a content deliver service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been kicking around the thought of ordering a DVD copy of Idiocracy for a while, so I&#8217;ve searched for it on Amazon a couple of times. I see now that Amazon will ship it to me for free if I pay through the nose: Thirty bucks for a DVD when it&#8217;s available on Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15263,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions\/15263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}