{"id":383,"date":"2008-05-19T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/05\/19\/greyhound-drops-convenience-fee-ups-"},"modified":"2008-05-19T12:13:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T16:13:37","slug":"greyhound-drops-convenience-fee-ups-nyc-discount-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/05\/greyhound-drops-convenience-fee-ups-nyc-discount-fare\/","title":{"rendered":"Greyhound drops &#8220;convenience fee,&#8221; ups NYC discount fare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Greyhound&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/boltbus.com\">BoltBus<\/a> funneling off the crazy bargain shoppers, Greyhound&#8217;s Boston-New York discount fare (the one you have to click &#8220;Can I get a lower price?&#8221; to get) is now up to $45. But in a victory for transparency, they&#8217;ve also dropped the &#8220;convenience fee&#8221; of $3. So, compared with a month ago, the price is now <strong>UP<\/strong> $2, but at least there&#8217;s no <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/04\/17\/another-dirty-trick-in-the-boston-new-york-bus-wars\/\">bait-and-switch pricing<\/a> going on any more.<\/p>\n<p>(BoltBus runs fewer trips than Greyhound &#8212; I needed something around 8pm and BoltBus only runs until 5pm. And once again I needed to be Midtown, West Side).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Greyhound&#8217;s own BoltBus funneling off the crazy bargain shoppers, Greyhound&#8217;s Boston-New York discount fare (the one you have to click &#8220;Can I get a lower price?&#8221; to get) is now up to $45. But in a victory for transparency, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2008\/05\/greyhound-drops-convenience-fee-ups-nyc-discount-fare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts-boston-cambridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}