{"id":31,"date":"2006-12-18T18:55:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T23:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/2006\/12\/18\/i-finally-luck-out-on-ebay\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T23:56:24","slug":"finally-some-ebay-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/2006\/12\/18\/finally-some-ebay-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally. Some eBay luck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely purchase much from eBay. Most of the stuff there scares me. I don&#8217;t care how many positive responses a seller gets. It&#8217;s just not in my nature to trust anyone; even more-so when that person is a stranger. Which is why I don&#8217;t generally buy anything from eBay that I need badly. I usually buy sports memorabilia and such. However, I have been having some problems with my laptop battery lately. I checked out a new replacement directly from HP.<\/p>\n<p>$148.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s cheaper then the battery for my truck. That surely doesn&#8217;t sound worth it. After a bit of searching, I finally came across a &#8220;new in box direct replacement&#8221; from some seller in California. $33 plus shipping. It&#8217;s worth a shot at at price.<\/p>\n<p>So far it&#8217;s working great. It was a generic replacement, so the section of the battery that fit into and locked on the side of the laptop itself didn&#8217;t fit properly. However, that piece slides right off; as does the same piece on my old battery. Switch-O-Change-O and all is wonderful. I charged it and the battery is running just fine, giving me about 4 hours of run time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely purchase much from eBay. Most of the stuff there scares me. I don&#8217;t care how many positive responses a seller gets. It&#8217;s just not in my nature to trust anyone; even more-so when that person is a stranger. Which is why I don&#8217;t generally buy anything from eBay that I need badly. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oddprocess.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}