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Priceline.com Complaints - Bait and Switch

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Priceline.com

Posted: 2009-08-04 by   zingo
Bait and Switch
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Priceline
United States

We have been looking for a vacation to Puerto Rico and Priceline.com seemed to have some very good rates. The problem is EVERY time you see the package on there site for the unbelievable rate, and go through the whole process to purchase it will not process the order and take you back to a MUCH higher price!!!

What happens is once you try to pay for it, it acts like it is processing then redirects you back to the same package at a much higher rate. I tried it about 5 times waiting for the low price to come back. My wife tried it several times at work, I tried from different computers and always the same result.

Called priceline to complain and they just acted like they have never heard this before or the package must have got bought. I am looking at it today and there it is the same low price again. Also looking on the web this is a common Bait and Switch Priceline.com uses. William Shatner now is on my crap list.

I took a screen print to see if Priceline would honor there price, and they would not do it.

Basically they show you the good price to bait you, then switch to the real price. What a scam. I finally bought through Orbitz and paid the normal price and has no issues.
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 228 days ago by   The REAL Dave In Montreal 0 Votes
Eileen (er, "Principissa" or "norman bates" or whatever you are calling yourself when you read this) - try letting people get answers to their concerns instead of trolling 10 threads (at last count) trying to annoy people that actually HELP legitimate complaints. If you REALLY have a need to attack people to make yourself feel better, join a cock-fighting club or something. Leave the grown-up stuff to the grown-ups... ok?
 227 days ago by   Angryasheck 0 Votes
Expedia.com, which I've used quite a bit, does the same thing (show one price and you book and it's mysteriously "gone" then you check again in an hour and it's still there only to disappear when you try in vain to book it again)
So I think these bait and switch tactics are a result of the current economy because they didn't used to do that before. In other words, I think now there is some self-serving fine print in the pages and pages of tiny print lawyers claim we should be reading, but knowing damn well almost no one is, that says that your price may change (and by "may" we know they mean "will")

I stopped using expedia.com this year because of these stupid tiny legal print games. Try going directly to the airlines as early as you can in your planning and use vrbo.com or some direct owner/hotel booking method for peace of mind and fair and above board dealings. Then as they lose angry customers, maybe priceline and expedia can save some money themselves by letting go of some of their lawyers and ad campaign designers.

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