{"id":50,"date":"2008-05-27T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/bad-design-bargain\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T07:58:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:58:26","slug":"bad-design-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/bad-design-bargain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Design = Bargain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>..the <a href=\"http:\/\/ebay.com\">eBay<\/a> design model. My theory is that eBay was a success due to its crappy design because it gave it that flea market feel and when you went there you felt like you getting a deal. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/tiffany.com\">Tiffany &#038; Co.<\/a> and you don&#8217;t get the feeling that you are getting a bargain because you shouldn&#8217;t.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050923092658\/http:\/\/9rules.com\/whitespace\/myspace_is_ghetto_a_design_choice.php\">Paul Scrivens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..the eBay design model. My theory is that eBay was a success due to its crappy design because it gave it that flea market feel and when you went there you felt like you getting a deal. Go to Tiffany &#038; Co. and you don&#8217;t get the feeling that you are getting a bargain because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}