{"id":7,"date":"2005-01-31T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/01\/31\/the-fine-print-under-blockbusters-no-m"},"modified":"2005-01-31T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T13:33:49","slug":"the-fine-print-under-blockbusters-no-more-late-fees-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/01\/31\/the-fine-print-under-blockbusters-no-more-late-fees-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fine Print under Blockbuster&#8217;s &#8220;No More Late Fees&#8221; Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a536'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Blockbuster ads are the most deceptive that I have seen in recent memory.&nbsp; If it wasn&#8217;t for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2005\/01\/31\/BUG46B1QLD1.DTL&amp;type=business\">this article<\/a> talking about the Netflix\/Blockbuster (and potentially, Amazon) battle, I would not have known that: <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><font size=\"3\">Blockbuster has since discontinued late fees. Customers must now buy<br \/>\noutright tapes and DVDs that are a week overdue at either the new or the used<br \/>\nprice (depending on the title), less the original fee.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>The forced purchase of tapes doesn&#8217;t sound so consumer-friendly to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Blockbuster ads are the most deceptive that I have seen in recent memory.&nbsp; If it wasn&#8217;t for this article talking about the Netflix\/Blockbuster (and potentially, Amazon) battle, I would not have known that: Blockbuster has since discontinued late fees. Customers must now buy outright tapes and DVDs that are a week overdue at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}