{"id":703905,"date":"2010-03-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003854"},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:55:15","slug":"worst-company-in-america-2010-best-buy-vs-gamestop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703905","title":{"rendered":"Worst Company In America 2010: Best Buy VS GameStop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/header_final-thumb-652x136-38534.png?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>This one should interest all you gamers out there. Best Buy, Geek Squad and their <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/consumerist-investigation-best-buy-optimization-is-a-big-stupid-annoying-waste-of-money.html\">annoying, stupid optimization service<\/a>, VS GameStop and their&#8230; well, <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/man-sues-gamestop-for-deceptive-used-game-sales.html\">this<\/a>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/06\/gamestop-jacks-up-wii-accessory-price-by-25-percent.html\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2007\/11\/28-confessions-of-a-gamestop-shift-supervisor.html\">this<\/a>, oh yeah, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/02\/gamestop-pays-its-employees-in-hidden-fee-cash-cards.html\">this&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So we ask you: Which one makes you throw the controller through the TV?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2976299.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2976299\/\">Which Company Is Worse?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">polling<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2010 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. Keep track of all the goings on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america.\">consumerist.com\/tag\/worst-company-in-america.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/behold-the-2010-worst-company-in-america-bracket.html\">Print the bracket, here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one should interest all you gamers out there. Best Buy, Geek Squad and their annoying, stupid optimization service, VS GameStop and their&#8230; well, this&#8230; and this, and this, oh yeah, there&#8217;s this&#8230; So we ask you: Which one makes you throw the controller through the TV? Which Company Is Worse?polling This is a post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X7j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}