{"id":957,"date":"2007-03-25T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T02:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=957"},"modified":"2007-03-25T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T02:17:02","slug":"software-sales-risks-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/software-sales-risks-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Software sales risks on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong>One of the cheapest places to buy software is eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a markup to distributors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers Union&#8211;which tracks Web retailers and advises consumers on Internet shopping through its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerwebwatch.org\/\">ConsumerWebWatch.org<\/a> service&#8211;urges buyers to use common sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it sounds too good to be true, it is,&#8221; says Beau Brendler, director of Web credibility for the site.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very good article read the rest of by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Software+sales+risks+on+eBay\/2100-1046_3-6170202.html?tag=alert\">clicking here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cheapest places to buy software is eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a markup to distributors. But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams. Consumers Union&#8211;which tracks Web retailers and advises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}