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Old Apr 13, 2011 | 6:42 am
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Originally Posted by kcblakely
Hmm. Sounds like a great idea to me.

I'll tell you why you can't - because credit card merchant rules don't allow it. Hotels must allow cancellation up to 1600 the day of checkin. Granted - some properties try to get away with not following the rules, but they only get away with it if you let them....
There is no such rule in any merchant agreement mandating what a hotel's cancellation policy must be....there is a rule that it be implimented uniformly and cancallation numbers be provided but nothing mandating it to be 6pm DOA
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