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> But every time I tried hipmonk, the prices were higher than what I found elsewhere, so I stopped using it. Same here, love the UX but when I first tried it a
by patrickaljord 14y ago
> But every time I tried hipmonk, the prices were higher than what I found elsewhere, so I stopped using it.
Same here, love the UX but when I first tried it a couple of years ago, prices were higher. I tried it again only a couple of weeks ago and prices were still much higher. It looks like hipmunk is an engineer driven company focused on technical stuff (great UX, no ads) but what's important here is getting the best deals with flights providers and they're still not there yet, even two years after the launch.
- veyron 14y agoThe problem is twofold: 1) for customers price is more important than UX 2) price is a relationship, not discovery, game You can't get access to the really deep deals without relationships, and if you are not the primary you have to undercut competition. IMHO the best play is to build the UX and then flip it to a company like Kayak.
- suking 14y agoKayak could copy this UX in a day if they wanted. I don't think even $15mm (even if it was all spent on marketing) is going to see much of an uptick for hipmunk. I bet priceline, kayak, etc. spend close to that a month.
- tedivm 14y agoAre they actually higher though? I found the same thing you did, except when I tried checking out of the other places I found they would place fees on top of things. Turns out Hipmonk just adds those fees in from the start. In my experience they end up coming out the same.
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