{"id":254,"date":"2006-12-20T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:05:01","slug":"so-whos-ripping-who-off-exactly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/so-whos-ripping-who-off-exactly\/","title":{"rendered":"So who&#8217;s ripping who off exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/6192943.stm\">this story<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pm\">Radio 4&#8217;s PM<\/a> programme last night, that a fashion designer label, Jimmy Choo, had complained to <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.marksandspencer.com\/\">M&#038;S<\/a> that they had ripped off their \u00c2\u00a3495 handbag and were selling it for a tenner.<\/p>\n<p>Now excuse me, but if you have the cheek to charge 500 quid for a handbag, you won&#8217;t get much sympathy from the majority of people if you whinge about being ripped off yourself. As the title to this post says: So who&#8217;s ripping who off exactly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard this story on Radio 4&#8217;s PM programme last night, that a fashion designer label, Jimmy Choo, had complained to M&#038;S that they had ripped off their \u00c2\u00a3495 handbag and were selling it for a tenner. Now excuse me, but if you have the cheek to charge 500 quid for a handbag, you won&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,170],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-in-the-news","tag-pot-kettle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}