{"id":541127,"date":"2010-04-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004891"},"modified":"2010-04-22T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:50:21","slug":"massachusetts-appliance-rebate-program-lasts-145-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541127","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Appliance Rebate Program Lasts 145 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/iloveappliances-thumb-240x180-39628.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>When Massachusetts announced their cash-for-clunker appliance rebate program, Consumerist <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/will-massachusetts-rebate-program-last-more-than-a-day.html\" >bet it would last one day before the rebate cash ran dry<\/a>. We were wrong &#8212; it took less than three hours. <\/p>\n<p>The program, which launched this morning at 10 a.m. and was supposed to go until May 5, got a mammoth response from consumers, who instantly flooded its website and phone lines. Many people were locked out because of the overload.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the initial $5.4 million in rebates were gone by 11:52 a.m. and the $2 million wait list was gone by 12:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Similar programs in other states have likewise had short life spans. Florida&#8217;s only lasted two days and the rebate money in Illinois was gone within 11 hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view.bg?articleid=1249249&#038;srvc=business&#038;position=2\" >State appliance rebate program runs dry<\/a> [Boston Herald]<br \/>\n<i>Thanks to Adam for the tip!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Massachusetts announced their cash-for-clunker appliance rebate program, Consumerist bet it would last one day before the rebate cash ran dry. We were wrong &#8212; it took less than three hours. The program, which launched this morning at 10 a.m. and was supposed to go until May 5, got a mammoth response from consumers, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541127","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\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}