Originally Posted by
WillTravel
Yes, but the guest knows what he/she paid for the bid. So if the hotel says, you can book directly with us for $6 more (or whatever) per night than the amount you bid, why shouldn't the hotel be able to do that?
A hotel (or RAC) can set any rate it wants. Granted, I haven't seen the terms a hotel or RAC vendor signs when accepting PL bids, but in many places, a hotel clerk or rental car salesperson have full authority to decide what rate to extend to a walkup customer or someone booking a reservation--how possibly can PL prevent a vendor from doing that (short of forbidding the vendor from accepting a customer for a consecutive period of time without going through PL)?