Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Travelocity - Fare Watcher

I subscribe to Fare Watcher, thinking that it might be useful in picking up some of the 'pricing error' type fares that I have read about on the boards (oh please, please..)

Unfortunately, it seems to be working in reverse - all I ever get in the way of email alerts are things like 'Lima - NOW £plenty money WAS 3/ and sixpence'.

Is that the general experience, or am I just SOL ?
thx
Stewie

I'm not sure what you are getting,but I get the alerts just fine. Sometime the new fare is already not available by the time I go to it,but often it does a good on alerting me to reductions into a specific city.

no, what I mean is that I only ever get e-mails like this one:

LHR-LIM FROM: London Heathrow, UK (LHR)
TO: Lima, Peru (LIM)
PRICE: NEW PRICE WAS DIFFERENCE
--------- ------- ----------
GBP 489.00 GBP 97.00 +GBP 392.00


but I never got the e-mail telling me that the cost was £97 http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/frown.gif

Just me then, huh ?

If you want, you can configure The Travelocity Fare Watcher to only notify you if the fare decreases. You can also put in a minimum amount that the fare has to go down before you are notified.

I use that feature and I am only E-mailed if the fare decreases by $25 or more. That way I only get about one notification a week.

If the fare was $97 when you set the watch, you would not be notified. You get an E-mail if the fare was like $150 when you set the watch and then went down to $97 later.

BTW: Stewie, when you press <shift> 4, do you get the italics L type pound sign or do you get an S with a line through it dollar sign? The only pound sign I have is the tic-tac-toe board type symbol that is above the number 3.

-S

Hmmm - I have fare watcher set to alert me on price increases and decreases >£20, but I only ever get the increases - maybe I'll re-configure. Thanks.

PS I'm working on a UK keyboard, so I get £ with <shift>3 and $ with shift<4>. Still haven't worked out how to get a euro symbol tho' http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/smile.gif

ASUGymn and Stewie Mac,

Making foreign/non-keyboard characters is easy if you know the secret codes:

Hold down your "Alt" key and type 0128 on your numeric keypad (not the numbers at the top) to make a Euro sign, like this: €

Hold down your "Alt" key and type 0163 to make a Pound sign, like this: £

You can get these codes, and many more by using the Character Map utility that comes with Windows: Start | Run | charmap

-alan in seattle

Wow - Great windows tip - Thank you.

I too use Farewatcher, but have noticed that I usually get the emails about changes after the fare has expired. I mainly use it to figure out average/good/bad airfares to places I'm thinking about visiting in the next several months.

I'll log onto the site pretty much every day and glance at the fare watcher table to see if anything's changed.