{"id":277,"date":"2005-05-26T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T23:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2005-05-26T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T23:25:49","slug":"quite-an-upsell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/quite-an-upsell\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite an Upsell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lianza\/15812321\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos13.flickr.com\/15812321_d944205250_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" alt=\"Agressive Upsell\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTypically when you shop at Amazon, they&#8217;ll offer you a suggestion of something to buy in addition to what you&#8217;re currently buying &#8211; sometimes they&#8217;ll even give you a discount on the combination.  Say you&#8217;re looking at a Pearl Jam CD, they might suggest you buy it with another Pearl Jam CD and give you a dollar off the combination.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today I was browsing for a bluetooth mouse.  This was one of the less expensive ones &#8211; coming in around $45.  What does Amazon suggest you buy in addition to it?  How about a $600 iPaq!  That&#8217;s definitely a sweet combo it&#8217;s tough to refuse&#8230; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll catch a lot of people with that impulse buy.  I just wanted a mouse for my laptop, but then realized, why not spend $600 for a handheld PC too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically when you shop at Amazon, they&#8217;ll offer you a suggestion of something to buy in addition to what you&#8217;re currently buying &#8211; sometimes they&#8217;ll even give you a discount on the combination. Say you&#8217;re looking at a Pearl Jam CD, they might suggest you buy it with another Pearl Jam CD and give you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-4t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}