Originally Posted by
mitchell
Four tips:
(1) Get a prepaid debit card, and run it down below $10. If you win with this card, Priceline will ask you for another card number, so you can rebid high & low.).
This and (3) are a clear violation of Priceline's terms of service that you have agreed to when you signed on. Sharing this tactic in a public forum puts the forum in potential legal difficulty. The other tactics are just as effective and don't create any potential problems.
OP: if the others paid less, then you bid too high. Try using Hotwire so you don't need to make this error. Then when you arrive at the hotel, the only people who will be paying less are those who bid on Priceline who used the Hotwire price as an upper limit for their bid.