{"id":1630,"date":"2010-03-17T20:13:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:13:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T20:13:49","slug":"quibids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"QUIBIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCame across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quibids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this bidding website<\/a> via facebook.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAn interesting scheme (basically, everybid costs $0.60). I supposed it's perhaps the result of those who couldn't stand people bidding on ebay just for fun and don't pay for the products they won.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnything paid with full knowledge that there's a higher chance to come out empty handed is for me, gambling, not investment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI thus rate this scheme as gambling, period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this bidding website via facebook. An interesting scheme (basically, everybid costs $0.60). I supposed it's perhaps the result of those who couldn't stand people bidding on ebay just for fun and don't pay for the products they won. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}