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Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / October 2005This has to be a scam... priceline
On priceline I put down $10 for EWR-JNU intiniary. Apparently it accepted because it asks for the credit card and the button says "purchase tickets" Does anyone have any experience with this?!?!?!? This gotta be a scam... Airline Ticket Offer Price: $1.00 per ticket Airline Ticket Taxes & Fees: $60.05 per ticket Number of Tickets: 2 Airline Ticket Delivery: $0.00 (Electronic Ticket) Airfare Subtotal: $122.10 Total Trip Cost: $122.10 > On priceline I put down $10 for EWR-JNU intiniary. Apparently it > accepted because it asks for the credit card and the button says [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Airfare Subtotal: $122.10 > Total Trip Cost: $122.10 You didn't read the terms and conditions over there did you? Probably the single most common problem with Priceline is folks not reading the rules. You were making an offer. Priceline had yet to accept it. They get your payment information prior to accepting it, and they mark the button as "purchase your tickets" because if they accept your offer, the sale is done. It isn't a scam, and it's not for everyone, especially folks who don't read the rules. But I'm dubious they were going to sell you the ticket for $10. >> On priceline I put down $10 for EWR-JNU intiniary. Apparently it >> accepted because it asks for the credit card and the button says [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > folks who don't read the rules. But I'm dubious they were > going to sell you the ticket for $10. Ah... yeah, I tried it - of course it was a no go. Surprisingly, Priceline quotes more for the same intiniary(sp?) than Alaska. the sad thing is, you rarely get a huge score on priceline now. things are standardizing as demand returns to US tourism. for a couple wonderful years, hotel rooms were incredibly cheap. > the sad thing is, you rarely get a huge score on priceline now. things > are standardizing as demand returns to US tourism. for a couple > wonderful years, hotel rooms were incredibly cheap. Yeah, I've begun to notice that my usual good deals don't seem to be popping up anymore. I've gotten better deals through hotwire than priceline. Airline tickets may still be a good deal, but I suspect hotels have gone beyond the model. I suspect from their advertising that at this point they consider the whole bidding thing to be mostly just advertising and market research. (It occured to me early on that if they harvested the info correctly, they could have a huge database of market research. Who wants to go where, when, for how much kinda thing.) > >> On priceline I put down $10 for EWR-JNU intiniary. Apparently it > >> accepted because it asks for the credit card and the button says [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Ah... yeah, I tried it - of course it was a no go. Surprisingly, > Priceline quotes more for the same intiniary(sp?) than Alaska. Airfares are so cheap these days that Priceline is rarely a good deal for air. Priceline is still a decent source of cheap hotel rooms and rental car deals, however... Take a gander at this helpful site to see tips for PL bidding strategies, etc.: www.betterbidding.com [I'm not affiliated with this site BTW]  SignatureBest Greg [snip] > Airfares are so cheap these days that Priceline is rarely a good deal > for air. Priceline is still a decent source of cheap hotel rooms and > rental car deals, however... I haven't found good hotel deals lately. And it is in places I used to find great ones. My last two bookings have been through hotwire, not priceline. I suspect priceline is more interested in their fixed price market line these days. > Take a gander at this helpful site to see tips for PL bidding > strategies, etc.: > > www.betterbidding.com And of course everyones fav http://www.biddingfortravel.com But watch what you post there. > [snip] > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > hotwire, not priceline. I suspect priceline is more interested in > their fixed price market line these days. I guess that we have another example of a failed business strategy. They must want to be another of the many hotel & car brokers. >>Take a gander at this helpful site to see tips for PL bidding >>strategies, etc.: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > But watch what you post there. [snip] > > I haven't found good hotel deals lately. And it is in places I > > used to find great ones. My last two bookings have been through [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I guess that we have another example of a failed business strategy. > They must want to be another of the many hotel & car brokers. Well, they haven't exactly failed yet. They are "evolving". But quite outside of the semantics, the travel business in general has been changing for the last 10 - 20 years and the "middle men" be they travel agents, "bucket shops" or booking agents have been trying to adapt. "Discounters" always have a problem in that if they are too successful, they'll cause a shift in the market and the larger market will move towards their prices. There is a market for "travel assistance" basically in the sense of sorting out the large number of choices and rates that exist. It's not all that clear that there is a profit in it. > [snip] > > Airfares are so cheap these days that Priceline is rarely a good deal [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > But watch what you post there. Yep, Sheryl The Big Fat Jewess runs that site with all the charm, panache, and joi - de - vivre of Dr. Joseph Mengele performing anesthesia - less experimental surgery on a bunch of retarded Gypsy kids... SignatureBest Greg |
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