Originally Posted by
hyderago
What kinds of routes are you buying tickets for? Simple domestic routes or obscure multi-leg international ones? I find it hard to believe that someone is finding prices half of what's being shown on Expedia/Orbitz/Travelocity/etc.
They aren't. TAs don't know anything Kayak doesn't know. There is this myth that there's a secret underground of lowball fares not visible to the general public, as evidenced by the newbies who show up here n FT asking for the sub-$600 transatlantic tickets. Consolidators / bucket shops aside, they don't exist. There's a whole bunch of predatory Internet fly-by-night "agencies" that take advantage of this public misconception though.