Originally Posted by
euromannn
It is still confusing on several cities in US and Canada that you have winning bids listed LOWER than the starting low bid in your tool.
I'm sure that there will always be the odd data point here and there that doesn't always fit an algorithm. That's just the nature of hotel pricing. It could be seasonality. It could be the bid was too old to be considered. It could be that some recent information was more relevant to the user's search and displaced something else. The idea is to get a general idea of where you should start and stop bidding; but by all means, if you know the market, go with your own bidding ranges.
Originally Posted by
euromannn
If BT "hangs during autobid is there now a formal response to reinitialize your bid or does it just continue to just say "loading"?
I should be clear here: the bidding happens between your computer and PL, so if something is slow or not responding, it's not the software. Normally you'd just click the stop button or click the link again, but when everything is automatic, you can't. Nevertheless, to answer your question, yes, there's a formal acknowledgement that AutoBid cannot continue, you can inspect what happened, and restart it when you're ready.
Originally Posted by
euromannn
Would be nice if the OP could respond more than once a week since showed great interest initially on FT feedback.
We absolutely read everything posted here and at other blogs or forums. The answer is just that given the choice between making excuses for all of our faults on a daily basis, or going heads down for a few days and just fixing them, we'll choose the latter every time. So just know that every complaint from the grumpy veterans here eventually goes into the work queue.
