{"id":522949,"date":"2010-04-10T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004371"},"modified":"2010-04-10T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T18:46:52","slug":"family-circle-redefines-free-as-full-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522949","title":{"rendered":"Family Circle Redefines &#8220;Free&#8221; As &#8220;Full Price&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/familycirclethumb-thumb-300x164-39157.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/familycircle-thumb-800x600-39156.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Consumerist reader Mike C. has got quite the sharp eye when it comes to spotting math mess-ups: He sent us this picture of a &#8220;free year&#8221; subscription offer from Family Circle. Only problem is, there&#8217;s absolutely nothing free about this deal.<\/p>\n<p>There are two options on the card. The first, the purported &#8220;deal,&#8221; gets you two years or 30 issues of the magazine for $15.98 plus $4 in shipping in handling, a set-up they call &#8220;2 years for the price of 1.&#8221;  Option two gets you one year, 15 issues, for $9.99&#8230; and no shipping and handling fee. <\/p>\n<p>So, either it&#8217;s $15.98 + $4 = $19.98, or $9.99 x 2 = $19.98. Hmm, which to chose? Oh wait, they&#8217;re the same price either way you slice it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full-size pic:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"familycircle.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/familycircle.jpg\" width=\"650\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumerist reader Mike C. has got quite the sharp eye when it comes to spotting math mess-ups: He sent us this picture of a &#8220;free year&#8221; subscription offer from Family Circle. Only problem is, there&#8217;s absolutely nothing free about this deal. There are two options on the card. The first, the purported &#8220;deal,&#8221; gets you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522949","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\/6710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}