{"id":8521,"date":"2020-09-18T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2020-09-18T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:31:16","slug":"amazon-customer-answers-are-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/amazon-customer-answers-are-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Customer Answers Are Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back I ordered some latex party balloons on Amazon. Putting them in my mouth to blow up, they tasted TERRIBLE. I couldn&#8217;t give them to a kid to blow up! I returned them. I used the Amazon &#8220;Customer questions &amp; answers&#8221; system to ask some other vendors, &#8220;How do they taste when blowing up? Some balloons I&#8217;ve gotten taste really bad.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what I got back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful-600x485.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful-600x485.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful-120x97.png 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful-768x621.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful-50x40.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/not-helpful.png 834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WTF Amazon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked the same question about 20 similar balloon products. The above was absolutely typical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no useful way to mark an answered question &#8220;beyond useless&#8221;. Why is this the case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan bought some balloons at Target. They were fine. Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I ordered some latex party balloons on Amazon. Putting them in my mouth to blow up, they tasted TERRIBLE. I couldn&#8217;t give them to a kid to blow up! I returned them. I used the Amazon &#8220;Customer questions &amp; answers&#8221; system to ask some other vendors, &#8220;How do they taste when blowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}