{"id":100,"date":"2006-01-15T08:54:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/15\/why-make-things-so-hard-chevy"},"modified":"2006-01-15T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T14:54:38","slug":"why-make-things-so-hard-chevy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Why make things so hard Chevy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!172\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>Recently, Chevy has started an advertising campaign that features the fact that they have reduced the sticker prices on all of their cars.\u00a0 For more information, they say, go to Edmunds.com and click on Head 2 Head.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Well, sure, why not.\u00a0 I like the Edmunds site, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s there.\u00a0 I go there and Head 2 Head is actually a banner ad.\u00a0 Um, allrighty, I&#8217;ll click.\u00a0 That&#8217;ll give some money to Edmunds, which is peachy by me.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>When I click on the ad, rather than seeing a list or something that shows the reduction in prices for the 2006 models, I&#8217;m presented with a chooser to pick the model of Chevy I want to work with.\u00a0 Hmmm, okay, 2006 Corvette.\u00a0 Once that&#8217;s done, rather than getting any information about the price reductions, I&#8217;m presented with a list of comparable cars to compare the Corvette to.\u00a0 Welll, that&#8217;s peachy, but not what I wanted.\u00a0 I wanted information on how much the prices of various Chevy&#8217;s have been reduced.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>That information is not to be found.\u00a0 Good job Chevy!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>And yes, I recognize that a reduction in list price will probably have little to no effect to the actual price paid by a buyer.\u00a0 And no, I&#8217;m not in the market for a 2006 Corvette &#8211; it&#8217;s just that usually any sale that Chevy has specifically excludes the Corvette, so I thought I&#8217;d see if they actually reduced the price.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Chevy has started an advertising campaign that features the fact that they have reduced the sticker prices on all of their cars.\u00a0 For more information, they say, go to Edmunds.com and click on Head 2 Head. \u00a0 Well, sure, why not.\u00a0 I like the Edmunds site, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s there.\u00a0 I go there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}