{"id":311,"date":"2004-10-20T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=311"},"modified":"2004-10-20T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T06:34:29","slug":"perhaps-another-web-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps another web scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister is coming to town and she found the cheapest flights using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheaptickets.com\">cheaptickets.com<\/a>. I tried to pay for her ticket, but I didn&#8217;t have her frequent flier number, and she wasn&#8217;t answering the phone because she was busy watching the stupid TV. &#8220;Oh, I had to watch <em>Lost<\/em> and <em>West Wing<\/em>.&#8221; Well, in the time between 8PM and 10PM when her stupid shows were over, the web site has deteriorated. First, it wouldn&#8217;t let me pay for the ticket, then it wouldn&#8217;t render. It&#8217;s slowly coming back to life.<\/p>\n<p>So I started looking up cheaptickets.com on the internet. Searching google, I found that as recently as July of 2001, cheaptickets.com was being called an &#8220;INTERNET AIRFARE SWINDLE!!!&#8221; on misc.consumers on the usenet. Most recently, they sold email addresses to &#8220;affiliates&#8221; leading to more unwanted commercial email (UCE, or spam in simpler terms).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have to pay for her frigging ticket, so I figure I get to complain. We&#8217;ll see if cheaptickets.com will let me buy the tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister is coming to town and she found the cheapest flights using cheaptickets.com. I tried to pay for her ticket, but I didn&#8217;t have her frequent flier number, and she wasn&#8217;t answering the phone because she was busy watching the stupid TV. &#8220;Oh, I had to watch Lost and West Wing.&#8221; Well, in the time between 8PM and 10PM when her stupid shows were over, the web site has deteriorated. First, it wouldn&#8217;t let me pay for the ticket, then it wouldn&#8217;t render. It&#8217;s slowly coming back to life. So I started looking up cheaptickets.com on the internet. Searching google, I found that as recently as July of 2001, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perhaps another web scam?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}