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Bus Group Doesn't Mind If Priceline Kills Off William Shatner As Long As It's...
Priceline is reportedly offing their spokesman William Shatner in an ad, which is just fine with the American Bus Association — but they’d prefer it if his means of death is something other than a...
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I Would Like To Name My Own Price & Not Get Trip Insurance Automatically,...
Alli says she’s stumbled upon something she thinks is new on Priceline — when she named her own price for a , $25 worth of trip insurance was included with no opting out screen. Of course, Priceline...
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Lawsuit Alleges Price-Fixing By Major Hotel Chains And Online Booking Sites
A class-action lawsuit filed yesterday in a U.S. District Court in California alleges that the biggest names in online travel — Priceline, Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Hotels.com — and some of the...
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Making A Booking Mistake On Priceline.com Not As Disastrous As I Expected
(afagen)Is booking your travel through third-party sites always a complicated nightmare that precludes refunds and makes your life difficult? No! Not always. Sometimes it saves you money and isn’t the...
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Expedia Books Me Into 4 Hotels I Can’t Stay In
(efkjr79)Like many New Yorkers in low-lying areas, Consumerist reader Jacob’s home was evacuated. Without a place to stay, he used his phone to book a room at a Manhattan hotel. Little did he know that...
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Priceline Convinces Kayak To Elope By Paying It $1.8 Billion In Cash & Stock
(birdarts) Who knew these two crazy kids would end up together? Travel site Priceline announced it’s going to pay its fellow travel search company Kayak $1.8 billion in both stock and cash. With this...
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Dallas Hotel Blatantly Offers To Pay Guests For Positive Online Reviews
If you have to pay for nice reviews, you don’t deserve them.UPDATE: A rep for the hotel confirms to Consumerist that the sign — since taken down — was posted by an employee who got overly creative in...
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Hotel Claims Overzealous Employee Posted Sign Offering To Pay For Nice Online...
This sign offering to pay for positive reviews has since been taken down.Earlier today, we told you about the Texas hotel that offered guests up to $5 if they posted positive reviews on any number of...
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Priceline Books Me In 3.5 Star Roach Motel, And There’s No Refunds
(Great Beyond)The problem with Priceline’s “Name Your Own Price” feature is that you don’t get to name your own hotel. That’s the point, of course. When Chris used it to book a 3.5 star hotel for his...
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Priceline Slams Customers With Hundreds Of Duplicate E-Mails
One reader’s inbox. She says that when you click on Unsubscribe, someone else’s name shows up.UPDATE: Priceline has released a statement regarding this afternoon’s e-mail oopsy. Here is the company’s...
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Court Throws Out Online Price-Fixing Lawsuit Against Major Hotel Chains,...
(SA_Steve)For years, some have accused America’s largest hotel chains of colluding with travel booking sites like Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz, and Priceline to make sure that the room rates offered to...
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Priceline Announces It’s Buying OpenTable For $2.6 Billion
(Plankton 4:20)Travel booking site Priceline seems to be hungry, and it it seems it’s found exactly what it wants to nosh on — restaurant reservation site OpenTable, which books tables for users in...
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New Travel App Only Lets You Book Last-Minute Hotel Rooms
(kevin dean) Every once in a while, customers get stranded in an unfamiliar town for any number of reasons: flight cancelled, last-minute business meeting, the list goes on. If you’ve ever found...
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Does Booking Direct With The Airline Actually Offer You The Lowest Price?
(Alan Sheffield)It’s no secret that some airlines have little love for online travel-booking sites. Southwest only lets travelers book fares directly through the airline and Delta has cut ties with a...
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Starwood Hotels, Priceline Sign Hospitality Deals With Cuba
Now that travel is opening up from the U.S. to Cuba, hospitality companies are jumping at the chance to get in early: both Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Priceline have inked deals that will get...
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Priceline CEO Resigns After In-House Investigation Uncovers Relationship With...
Online travel booking site Priceline announced today that CEO Darren Huston — who has served in that role since January 2014 — will be resigning after a company investigation discovered he was in a...
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How To Make Sure You Don’t Accidentally Buy United’s Crappy “Basic Economy”...
When searching for the best fare on a flight, it’s not uncommon for customers to peruse a third-party travel site like Expedia or Priceline and jump at the lowest number they see associated with a...
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