{"id":1728,"date":"2008-02-05T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/05\/rei-has-consumer-comments-now\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T20:42:45","slug":"rei-has-consumer-comments-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/05\/rei-has-consumer-comments-now\/","title":{"rendered":"REI has consumer comments now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just noticed this the other day: REI.com has added consumer reviews (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backcountry.com\">backcountry.com<\/a> was using two years ago, but hey, late progress is still progress). As a sampling, check out this link to the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/product\/754440\">$600 Garmin Colorado 400t GPS unit<\/a>, whose reviews run the gamut from tepid to terrible.  Well, maybe all the grouches have chimed in first.  <\/p>\n<p>(I double-checked to see how long the comments have been there &#8212; the oldest date to the end of August of last year, which just goes to show how much resolve I&#8217;ve shown in avoiding buying new gear, no matter how badly I needed it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just noticed this the other day: REI.com has added consumer reviews (which backcountry.com was using two years ago, but hey, late progress is still progress). As a sampling, check out this link to the $600 Garmin Colorado 400t GPS unit,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/05\/rei-has-consumer-comments-now\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[210,521,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}