{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-31T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/01\/31\/deals-that-dont-add-value\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T19:23:41","slug":"deals-that-dont-add-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/01\/31\/deals-that-dont-add-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Deals That Don&#8217;t Add Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuffletech.com\/index.html\">card shuffler<\/a> online. It&#8217;s a little pricey at around $500 but compared to the casino grade ones which go for around $17,000 it looks like a good deal. Yes, you can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comforthouse.com\/elcarshuf.html\">cheap card shuffler<\/a>s for around $10-15 but they&#8217;re really not worth it. Trust me is is pretty much easier to shuffle by hand than use one of them. I&#8217;ve got one of those an it&#8217;s too much trouble to use.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, the $500 shuffler comes with added value! That&#8217;s right! You guessed it &#8211; it comes with two decks of cards. Now who in their right mind would spend $500 for a card shuffler and not already have a good collection of playing cards? I guess there is an off chance that someone might get one of these and not have a deck of cards to try it with but really that is a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten things (a carrying case with chips in it for example) that came with *bonus* two decks of playing cards before and those cards get put right to the side. Bah, big bonus.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is about the appearance of giving something extra combined with perhaps some advertising for the company that makes the cards. Anyone have any other examples?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at this card shuffler online. It&#8217;s a little pricey at around $500 but compared to the casino grade ones which go for around $17,000 it looks like a good deal. Yes, you can get cheap card shufflers for around $10-15 but they&#8217;re really not worth it. Trust me is is pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}