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  "locale": "en-US",
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    {
      "title": "What is the Best Coupon Code for Me?",
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      "manual_browser_verified": false,
      "short_quote": "If this occurs, you will be billed retroactively for the discounted amount.",
      "quote_context": "Cancellation and transfer of an existing package to obtain a new-package discount; context is paraphrased."
    },
    {
      "title": "Hosting Price Chart",
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      "review_method": "web_reading_tool",
      "manual_browser_verified": false,
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      "monthly_values": "official_published_not_calculated",
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        {
          "term": "1 month",
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        },
        {
          "term": "1 year",
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          "official_monthly": 13.19
        },
        {
          "term": "3 years",
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      ],
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        {
          "term": "1 month",
          "regular_total": 15
        },
        {
          "term": "1 year",
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        },
        {
          "term": "3 years",
          "regular_total": 540
        }
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    }
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    "chrome_price_page": "Security verification displayed; stopped without completing it.",
    "automated_source_lock": "Historical source restriction retained; editorial tool reading did not authorize or clear a crawler lock."
  },
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    "invoice_reviewed": false,
    "code_redeemed": false,
    "working_code": null,
    "code_expiry": null,
    "email_official_fee_schedule": null
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    {
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/1uffxxo/im_done_with_hostgator_just_got_an_email_that/",
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      "status": "Individual reports; charges and invoices not independently verified.",
      "use": "Distinguish an email product, reported charge and unspecified notice period from control-panel licensing."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/HostGator/comments/1u5cmu5/do_not_use_hostgator/",
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      "status": "Individual migration comments; no measured service or migration claim."
    }
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    "method": "Signed-in Chrome; ten readable natural-result bodies including replacements for inaccessible candidates.",
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      "couponfollow.com",
      "wired.com",
      "hostadvice.com",
      "techradar.com",
      "hostgator.worthepenny.com",
      "groupon.com",
      "wp-tweaks.com",
      "hostgator.tenereteam.com",
      "mmanuts.com",
      "isitwp.com"
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    "scope": "WIRED covers only the readable article and displayed cards; inaccessible and unopened regions excluded. Not the complete original top ten."
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    "basis": "Nine merged information groups in this guide; three conservatively counted sourced differences absent from the readable sample.",
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      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Initial invoice versus renewal",
        "counted_increment": false
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Existing customer buying a genuinely new package",
        "counted_increment": true
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
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        "counted_increment": true
      },
      {
        "id": 4,
        "name": "Non-hosting products excluded",
        "counted_increment": false
      },
      {
        "id": 5,
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        "counted_increment": false
      },
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        "id": 6,
        "name": "Regular term totals, official monthly values and arithmetic precision",
        "counted_increment": false
      },
      {
        "id": 7,
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        "counted_increment": true
      },
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        "id": 8,
        "name": "Email discussion and incompatible reporting periods",
        "counted_increment": false
      },
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        "id": 9,
        "name": "Same-period stay/move budgeting framework",
        "counted_increment": false
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    "numerator": 3,
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    "limits": "Editorial information-group comparison, not a performance measurement or a claim of worldwide exclusivity. Method disclosure is not counted as a separate increment; duplicate FAQ answers are merged."
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}