{"id":2391,"date":"2006-01-23T07:53:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T12:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2006-01-23T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T12:53:28","slug":"why-does-etymotic-hate-its-canadian-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/why-does-etymotic-hate-its-canadian-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"why does etymotic hate its canadian customers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etymotic.com\/\">Etymotic<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; makers of otherwise fine headphones&nbsp;&mdash; must really hate its Canadian customers. Not merely do the local suppliers not stock replacement eartips, but getting them shipped from the US incurs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ups.com\/\">UPS<\/a>&#8216;s unbelievable brokerage charge, which approaches the value of the parts you&#8217;re ordering.<\/p>\n<p>A more coherent posting will come later when the old strongly-worded letter of complaint goes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etymotic&nbsp;&mdash; makers of otherwise fine headphones&nbsp;&mdash; must really hate its Canadian customers. Not merely do the local suppliers not stock replacement eartips, but getting them shipped from the US incurs UPS&#8216;s unbelievable brokerage charge, which approaches the value of the parts you&#8217;re ordering. A more coherent posting will come later when the old strongly-worded letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[2],"tags":[705,1020,241,1317,166,1182,786,1345,538],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-art","tag-etymotic","tag-fine","tag-headphones","tag-old","tag-phone","tag-ppe","tag-ren","tag-stock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}