{"id":75543,"date":"2020-10-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75543"},"modified":"2020-10-10T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T14:12:23","slug":"due-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75543","title":{"rendered":"Due To Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I used to drive to work, half-an-hour each way.\u00a0 I listened to Sirius XM<br>in the car.\u00a0 They sent me a renewal reminder: $160 for another year.<\/p><p>I called and told them to let it lapse.\u00a0 I work at home, I don&#8217;t listen<br>to the car radio.\u00a0 Oh, but they can offer me a promotional rate.\u00a0 And<br>expand my package to let me listen on-line.\u00a0 And . . .<\/p><p>No.\u00a0 If you hadn&#8217;t tried to gouge me, maybe I&#8217;d have let it renew.\u00a0 But<br>teaser rates and short-term promotions won&#8217;t lure me back; they only<br>serve to prove you could have offered me a better deal earlier, but<br>chose not to.<\/p><p>I suspect there will be a raft of business failures in the next year or<br>two, prompted by similar experiences.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my own beeves with Sirius&#8217; way of doing business. A company whose technology is that expensive and whose service is nonetheless that expendable needs to be a lot smarter than Sirius is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEDIA CLICH\u00c9 ALERT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially in <em>these uncertain times<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to do it once.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to drive to work, half-an-hour each way.\u00a0 I listened to Sirius XMin the car.\u00a0 They sent me a renewal reminder: $160 for another year. I called and told them to let it lapse.\u00a0 I work at home, I don&#8217;t listento the car radio.\u00a0 Oh, but they can offer me a promotional rate.\u00a0 Andexpand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75548,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75543\/revisions\/75548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}