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Old Nov 22, 2008 | 1:21 pm
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Originally Posted by BEAV
If all Priceline required to rebid was an increase in your bid price, then all anyone would have to do to be successful would be to increase by $1 until you finally "hit" the magic number. Think of the thousands and thousands of bids Priceline would have to process, possibly overtaxing their system?
True.

If you are offered a free re-bid, however, I would advise you not accept it. You can usually get the room for less than half of the rebid price.

For example: I recently bid $130 for a resort in Honolulu. Denied, with an offer to try again for $147. I declined, added a zone that did not have a resort, and rebid for $136. Got the room.
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