{"id":188,"date":"2009-03-04T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-03-04T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:37:09","slug":"i-hate-dell-but-still-desire-a-mini-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Dell, But Still Desire a Mini-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously Dell, do you not understand the concept of &#8220;out of stock&#8221;? I ordered my mini 9 on the 10th of February and got a nice email telling me the delivery date would be the on or before the 27th. Quite a wait, but the mini 9 is really popular and I desire it above all other netbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Then I got an email on the 17th of February moving my delivery date back to the 5th of March. I was ill at the time so it made barely a dent in my virally inflicted misery.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got an email cheerfully apologising for the unexpected demand and pushing my delivery date back to the 19th of March. I mean seriously, revising the delivery date the day before I was expecting to take delivery. Does that strike anyone else as professional? It&#8217;s the sort of behaviour I would expect out of a 419 scammer.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s bad form to make a decision when you are angry. Tomorrow in the clear light of day, if I can&#8217;t think of a good reason why Dell deserve my money I shall cancel the order and go and buy and Samsung NC-10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously Dell, do you not understand the concept of &#8220;out of stock&#8221;? I ordered my mini 9 on the 10th of February and got a nice email telling me the delivery date would be the on or before the 27th. Quite a wait, but the mini 9 is really popular and I desire it above &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Hate Dell, But Still Desire a Mini-9<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}