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Are you kidding? Of course it's useful to the customer! Do you know how annoying it is to get a reservation at some of these restaurants? For example - Reserv
by teej 12y ago
Are you kidding? Of course it's useful to the customer! Do you know how annoying it is to get a reservation at some of these restaurants?
For example - ReservationHop has a 7:45pm reservation next Friday night to Zero Zero for 4 people. If I try to book the same date/time/party through Open Table, I only have 6pm and 8:15pm available. If I wanted to book that time I would have had to call weeks in advance.
I am getting convenience for money. That's a fair trade. And let's not act like this market didn't exist before. People have been doing this on craigslist and other sites for years.
- andrewfong 12y agoThere's no net win for customers overall. Your win is someone else's loss in that case. In fact, it's a net loss from an overall perspective since you had to pay ReservationHop. The fact that people have been doing it for years does not make it ethical.
- Mikeb85 12y agoIf they didn't have that 7:45 reservation for 4 people, it might still be open... They're artificially reducing supply, then selling it back and pocketing the difference.
- davorak 12y ago> Are you kidding? Of course it's useful to the customer! It is not clear to me that the benefit gained by the reservationhop user out weighs the negative externality[1] paid by the rest of the restaurant goers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative