{"id":20071,"date":"2013-05-31T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/friday-rant-bloody-store-credit\/"},"modified":"2013-05-31T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:12:27","slug":"friday-rant-bloody-store-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/friday-rant-bloody-store-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Rant \u2013 Bloody Store Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So my Mother goes to a well known chain shop and wants to buy a coat.<\/p>\n<p>She tells the assistant that it is a bit too dear for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo problem\u2019\u201d says the assistant \u201cWe will open an account for you and you will get R300.00 off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Scot in my Mom hears \u201cR300.00 off\u201d and she scrabbles for the pen stopping only to ask; \u201cSo, what is the catch?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo catch\u201d says the assistant handing her another two R100.00 off vouchers for later use.<\/p>\n<p>It is more than a month later and my Mother has received her first postal communication from said chain AND a bill for R28.00 per month for some form of card insurance. She assures me that the assistant didn\u2019t explain this to her, didn\u2019t read the contract to her, didn\u2019t ask if she understood the terms and conditions and didn\u2019t tell her that she would, despite having paid cash for her coat, be receiving a bill for R28.00 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Much chastised my Mother has set off with a flea in her ear to do battle with this miscreants this morning and to force them to close her account.<\/p>\n<p>Aluta Continua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my Mother goes to a well known chain shop and wants to buy a coat. She tells the assistant that it is a bit too dear for her. \u201cNo problem\u2019\u201d says the assistant \u201cWe will open an account for you and you will get R300.00 off.\u201d The Scot in my Mom hears \u201cR300.00 off\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-20071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}