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How does this compare with Student Universe? As I understand, their system primarily relied on a series of in-house travel agents who negotiated the best deals
by e1ven 18y ago
How does this compare with Student Universe?
As I understand, their system primarily relied on a series of in-house travel agents who negotiated the best deals that they could..
Their "secret sauce" was in their way of verifying that someone actually was a student; They spent a lot of money developing it, and workign out the kinks. I'd be curious to know how TravelLulu does the same.
- RobGR 18y agoThis article, the "Norton Antivirus 2009" submitted by the same user, and the "nail fungus" one submitted by a different, also newly created account, seem to be page-rank farming spam. But anyway, to answer you -- I don't know about Student Universe, but I know someone who worked on the student verification part of the Microsoft Dreamspark site, and it is a lot of work and not simple. The way things are now, I think a lot more students will be selling those frequent flyer miles on points.com or flyhub.com or craigslist or whatever, and taking Greyhound. It's better to have cash in hand -- not that Greyhound is all that cheap these days, many flights compete with them on cost now.