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I wonder how does booking.com pay for the tickets? Do they use a new card for every transaction or do they buy thousands of tickets with the same card? Do they
by codedokode 2y ago
I wonder how does booking.com pay for the tickets? Do they use a new card for every transaction or do they buy thousands of tickets with the same card? Do they use a corporate card or personal card (which might be against ToS)? If they use a corporate card, isn't it easy for Ryanair to see it and block the transaction?
Also, cannot airline see that requests come from datacenter IPs and not from residential?
It looks like it is super easy to block this on airline side.
- jdietrich 2y agoVirtual credit cards are an established financial technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number IP addresses are a tradeable commodity.
- codedokode 2y agoTo issue virtual card numbers you must be a bank, right?
- carlosjobim 2y agoNo, eligible businesses can do this through Stripe for example.
- tblt 2y agoTo be issued a virtual card number, you need only be a bank customer
- gruez 2y ago>Also, cannot airline see that requests come from datacenter IPs and not from residential? Easily solveable by getting a data SIM, plugging it into a LTE/5G USB stick, and routing your traffic through that.
- codedokode 2y agoIt is not very reliable link though, there will be errors, timeouts.
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