{"id":647,"date":"2010-01-11T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/poojanblog\/2010\/01\/kudos-to-barnes-noble\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T14:15:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:15:52","slug":"kudos-to-barnes-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/kudos-to-barnes-noble\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Barnes &#038; Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went back on my previous decision to avoid B&amp;N. There prices on audiobooks were pretty good (compared to both Audible and eMusic). So, I bought this (note the Amazon link):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=obsecompthind-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=1401301304\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, I&#8217;ve already bought it at B&amp;N. OK. My fault. Should&#8217;ve checked first. Initially, B&amp;N said they wouldn&#8217;t be able to refund my purchase because audio books aren&#8217;t refundable. I wrote an email explaining that I understand that they couldn&#8217;t refund digital media because it isn&#8217;t returnable; once you buy it, there&#8217;s no way they can stop you from listening to it. However, I already own this media, so there&#8217;s no point in stopping me from getting a refund.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? They were pretty reasonable. They explained it would be a one-time deal, but they&#8217;d refund it to me. I really like when corporations listen to their customers and act reasonably. I know that it&#8217;s up to me to check whether I have media already before buying it.* Kudos to B&amp;N for being reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>* This is something many other stores do for you: maintaining a record of your digital library. My guess is that B&amp;N will grow this feature in the future. Right now, it seems to be the trade-off you make for B&amp;N&#8217;s cheaper prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went back on my previous decision to avoid B&amp;N. There prices on audiobooks were pretty good (compared to both Audible and eMusic). So, I bought this (note the Amazon link):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-web-shopping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}