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From: bertbarndoor on 24 Oct 2007 14:29
What the hell, you do a search, you get the price, you click on it,
and then it goes up $300. How annoying is this? What a waste of time.
Travelocity, you officially suck. SHAME ON YOU!!!! Why do you want to
alienate the people who are using your site? Why do you want to waste
our time? Why the bait ans switch? WHY WHY WHY!

From: Hatunen on 24 Oct 2007 16:23
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:29:15 -0700, bertbarndoor
<bertbarndoor(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>What the hell, you do a search, you get the price, you click on it,
>and then it goes up $300. How annoying is this? What a waste of time.
>Travelocity, you officially suck. SHAME ON YOU!!!! Why do you want to
>alienate the people who are using your site? Why do you want to waste
>our time? Why the bait ans switch? WHY WHY WHY!

That happens on all the sites like Travelocity. Frequently,
they've just sold the last seat at the lower price.

BTW, what's the $300? Is it fees and taxes or an actual fare
change?

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From: Justin Case on 24 Oct 2007 19:10
Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote in
news:0davh390subf1u15oclsp1j4b9qkn3puue(a)4ax.com:

> BTW, what's the $300? Is it fees and taxes or an actual fare
> change?
>
Probably the TSA surcharge.


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From: Rog' on 24 Oct 2007 19:38
"bertbarndoor" <bertbarndoor(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What the hell, you do a search, you get the price, you click on it,
> and then it goes up $300. How annoying is this? What a waste
> of time. Travelocity, you officially suck. SHAME ON YOU!!!!
> Why do you want to alienate the people who are using your site?
> Why do you want to waste our time? Why the bait and switch?

You are more likely to find the fare you want if you use the
"flexible dates of travel" feature which show you on which days
(if any) seats at that price can be had.

Those low-ball fares are often either:
1. The fare was valid at one point in time, but no seats for that fare
code are available for your dates of travel. The fare is still on the
books, but the ~3~ seats alloted for it are gone;
2. For a multi-leg or R/T fare, seats are available for the 1st leg
only, not for connecting or return segments. Sometimes, only the
1st available fare-code gets quoted.
3. The fare has day-of-week, time-of-day, length-of-stay or
blackout date restrictions which your dates of travel violated.



From: mrtravel on 25 Oct 2007 00:36
bertbarndoor wrote:

> What the hell, you do a search, you get the price, you click on it,
> and then it goes up $300. How annoying is this? What a waste of time.
> Travelocity, you officially suck. SHAME ON YOU!!!! Why do you want to
> alienate the people who are using your site? Why do you want to waste
> our time? Why the bait ans switch? WHY WHY WHY!
>

Do you think this is the only site this happens on?

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