{"id":7981,"date":"2003-04-16T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2003-04-16T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2003-04-16T17:16:03","slug":"how-to-lose-customers-and-alienate-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7981","title":{"rendered":"How to lose customers and alienate fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of special interest to our Cyborg in chief, Gareth, Games Workshop has announced that it will <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?dq=&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;frame=right&#038;th=7794db0c0f03b333&#038;seekm=3e9ca32c.107774843%40news.flinthills.com&#038;scoring=d#link1\" target=new>cease doing business<\/a> with game shops that offer internet sales. Ostensibly, they&#8217;re offended by the use of pictures of their products, labelling them IP violations, to sell their products.<br \/> Of course, everybody suspects that they&#8217;re more offended by mail order retailers undercutting sales in their own stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of special interest to our Cyborg in chief, Gareth, Games Workshop has announced that it will cease doing business with game shops that offer internet sales. Ostensibly, they&#8217;re offended by the use of pictures of their products, labelling them IP violations, to sell their products. Of course, everybody suspects that they&#8217;re more offended by mail &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to lose customers and alienate fans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}