{"id":1101,"date":"2014-05-15T01:57:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2014-05-15T01:57:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T01:57:50","slug":"why-do-products-from-larger-companies-cost-more-than-those-from-smaller-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Why do products from larger companies cost more than those from smaller companies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"consumer product recalls\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2251\/2496567375_e0089e1021_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26601145@N04\/2496567375\">Public Citizen<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Marisol<\/i>: Why do products from larger companies cost more than those from smaller companies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example: an ipod shuffle costs more than another lesser-known mp3 player that has the shuffle feature as well. <\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>A Dell laptop with similar specs (if not slightly lower) as an Ibuypower laptop, but costs 200-300 dollars more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Thedrip<\/i><br \/>Advertising is part of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Public Citizen Question by Marisol: Why do products from larger companies cost more than those from smaller companies? For example: an ipod shuffle costs more than another lesser-known mp3 player that has the shuffle feature as well. Or A Dell laptop with similar specs (if not slightly lower) as an Ibuypower laptop, but costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[462,1453,552,2299,1221,204,2792,2080,377],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-companies","tag-cost","tag-from","tag-larger","tag-more","tag-products","tag-smaller","tag-than","tag-those"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}