{"id":792,"date":"2008-06-17T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/06\/never-underestimate-the-power-of-marketing.html"},"modified":"2008-06-17T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T16:58:00","slug":"never-underestimate-power-of-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/06\/never-underestimate-power-of-marketing.html","title":{"rendered":"Never Underestimate the Power of Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is incredible.  You can purchase a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000I1X6PM\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\">Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable<\/a> from Amazon for only $500.99!!  They don&#8217;t even try and dupe you with any $499.95 price.  There it is, bold and baldfaced:  $500 and change.  But hey, at least the shipping is free.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s amazing is that this is simply a 1.5 meter CAT 5 network cable.  You can pick one up for about $5 at any computer store.  I have a drawer full of them at home, which now that I think of it should probably be moved from the garage to a safe deposit box since I didn&#8217;t realize I had a college fund worth of cabling just lying about.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for a good giggle, read some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/product\/B000I1X6PM\/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1&amp;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending\">customer reviews<\/a> for this product.  They are hilarious.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is incredible. You can purchase a Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable from Amazon for only $500.99!! They don&#8217;t even<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/06\/never-underestimate-power-of-marketing.html\" title=\"Read Never Underestimate the Power of Marketing\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}