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I find it sad that there are people who think because someone makes a mistake you should be allowed, in fact a 'right', to take advantage of them. I understand
by aaron695 12y ago
I find it sad that there are people who think because someone makes a mistake you should be allowed, in fact a 'right', to take advantage of them.
I understand if you don't realise and their mistake sets you back you should get some sort of resolution.
But come off it, everyone in these groups knows when it's a pricing error.
These groups are fun, I do like them, but when some members think they are entitled to something because mistakes happen I have issue.
- jrochkind1 12y agoAirlines have taken advantage of me for making a mistake so many times. Once I booked I accidentally booked a flight for February 12, when the conference I was going to was actually March 12. I didn't realize until the day of my actually purchased flight. There was no sympathy for me, I simply had to buy another ticket.
- hueving 12y agoThat's different because it's not obvious to them, especially since you waited so long. Your parent comment is referring to situations where it's obvious some sort of mistake was made and yet you jump on it and exploit it knowing that something wasn't right.
- jrochkind1 12y agoHow do I know what fares are obviously mistakes? Fare prices are all over the place. They quite often charge less for a round-trip than a one-way to the same destination, which is not a mistake at all, that fact makes it clear that it's not obvious which fares are mistakes and which aren't, or I'd think all of those were!
- redblacktree 12y agoIt may not always be obvious, but as an example, the $1.86 flight that another poster mentioned should certainly trip your "this isn't right" sensor.
- giarc 12y agoYet he completed the trip. How hard would it be for the airlines to code something that says if price/mile is less than $x.xx, do not post, do not complete transaction, alert development team. And yet they haven't and this continues to happen.
- Spooky23 12y agoWhy? Companies do all sorts of bizarro price offers. Megabus offers $1 fares to encourage pre-booking. Target sells $6 shampoo for 90% off when it sits for awhile. $1.86 may be preferable to an empty chair for some reason. Pretending to be in Denmark to score a deal is acting in bad faith... But if you offer something for sale at a bad price, that's your problem.
- lsaferite 12y agoWell, If I had an account with a billing address in Denmark while I lived in the US, would that suddenly change the morality of the situation?
- jlarocco 12y agoI don't see how either of those things is any more or less obvious than the other.
- alextgordon 12y agoDespite telling their children the opposite, I think most people have a strong belief that "two wrongs make a right", or equivalently "what goes around comes around".
- Raphael 12y agoTaking advantage of pricing errors provides an incentive to reduce the incidence of pricing errors.
- lsaferite 12y agoI would say part of it is the way airlines price tickets in the first place. Instead of pricing them as some sort of cost plus basis, they use software to squeeze every penny they can out of flights. This causes ticket prices to vary wildly. It personally makes me angry that to get a good price I have to try to predict the right time to book a flight. If they get to game me by dynamically changing prices then why can't I game them by taking advantage of the lowest prices when they are availiable?