{"id":3401,"date":"2007-12-07T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/indigos-most-overpriced-yet\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T00:32:15","slug":"indigos-most-overpriced-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/indigos-most-overpriced-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"indigo&#8217;s most overpriced yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the most obscene markup in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/\">indigo<\/a> this evening: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxformat.co.uk\/\">Linux Format<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice.org<\/a> special edition was priced at a hefty $34.95. This costs \u00c2\u00a310 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, UK prices are quoted tax-inclusive. The ten quid you see is the ten quid you pay. Not so in Canada. In the most boneheaded move ever, our prices don&#8217;t include tax, so that $34.95 really costs you $39.84 (in Ontario, at least).<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, \u00c2\u00a310 is $20.53. Indigo&#8217;s markup is almost 100%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the most obscene markup in indigo this evening: the Linux Format OpenOffice.org special edition was priced at a hefty $34.95. This costs \u00c2\u00a310 in the UK. The thing is, UK prices are quoted tax-inclusive. The ten quid you see is the ten quid you pay. Not so in Canada. In the most boneheaded [&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":[17,7],"tags":[1200,1028,270,1027,889,1029],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-computers-suck","tag-canada","tag-indigo","tag-linux","tag-magazine","tag-openoffice","tag-ripoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-SR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","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=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}