{"id":83,"date":"2011-09-20T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-09-21T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:55:25","slug":"maxwells-has-come-and-gone-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell’s has come and gone again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Maxwell’s Clothiers<\/a> was back in town for all of last week on one of their biannual visits. Not much changes; whatever they’re doing works and keeps customers returning so it makes sense to carry on. <\/p>\n

Since I’ll be heading to HK in a few months I asked one of the staff if there was any price difference if I were to pick it up there directly and he said not really. I thought this was slightly odd given their cost of $50 per shirt includes a shipping cost, especially since customs and duties are charged separately at time of delivery. A trusted friend mentioned that the cost in HKD was $300, which at the current exchange rate works out to $40CDN. Knowing this beforehand helped me make the decision to not buy; instead I’ll wait and order in HK and have a relative ship the shirts to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Maxwell’s Clothiers was back in town for all of last week on one of their biannual visits. Not much changes; whatever they’re doing works and keeps customers returning so it makes sense to carry on. Since I’ll be heading to HK in a few months I asked one of the staff if there was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","tag-maxwells","tag-shirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.vchan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}