{"id":411579,"date":"2010-03-10T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003056"},"modified":"2010-03-10T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:02:05","slug":"expedia-baited-and-switched-me-on-vegas-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411579","title":{"rendered":"Expedia Baited And Switched Me On Vegas Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/expedia-thumb-504x286-37950.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creditcardoutlaw.com\/my-blog\/2010\/03\/is-expediacom-full-of-it.html\">Credit Card Oultaw<\/a> posts about an Expedia Las Vegas vacation ad for airfare and a stay at a 4-star hotel starting at $39, but clicked on it, went through the process and discovered the total cost of the cheapest trip was $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>From the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They have quite the nerve shoving a Citi credit card offer in my face as they unveiljavascript:void(0); a price tag that is about 57 times greater than what the ad I clicked on promised.<\/p>\n<p>Get your sh_t together, Expedia. What you did to me and thousands of other Web surfers tonight was either a) intentionally devious b) rather incompetent or c) a bit of both.<\/p>\n<p>If an offer is too good to be true, it probably is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which travel site do you find gives you the best results?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creditcardoutlaw.com\/my-blog\/2010\/03\/is-expediacom-full-of-it.html\">Is Expedia.com Full Of It?<\/a> [Credit Card Outlaw]<br \/>\n<i>(Thanks, Sara!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit Card Oultaw posts about an Expedia Las Vegas vacation ad for airfare and a stay at a 4-star hotel starting at $39, but clicked on it, went through the process and discovered the total cost of the cheapest trip was $2,000. From the post: They have quite the nerve shoving a Citi credit card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}