Curiouser and curiouser.... Amazing what you can find in other threads.
Originally Posted by
Rebelyell
My wife pays for all her hotels with her company AMEX card, ....
So your wife was never actually out
any money.
Originally Posted by
Rebelyell
Just to update, I spent 10-15 or more minutes on the phone yesterday trying to get the hotel to apply the credit for the prepaid room back to my wife's credit card.
If it's a company card, there will undoubtedly be someone at the company whose job it is to deal with this stuff. No need for you to have spent any time.
Originally Posted by
Rebelyell
Your hotel picked up the negligible cost of one night at the Doubletree, which only benefitted my wife’s employer. You did not provide her with any compensation whatsoever for the hundreds of dollars of additional work she had to do in getting set up for the trade show being held at the convention center connected to your hotel. On the night my wife was walked rooms at the Doubletree were going for less than $100. I’m sure you got an industry discount. So your hotel likely turned a tidy profit by breaching its contract with my wife.
But it appears that much or most of your wife's additional inconvenience was because she actually
preferred the Doubletree and chose to remain there.
Originally Posted by
Rebelyell
She ended up staying at the Doubletree, and while the rate was lower, she said it actually seemed to be a nicer hotel.
Originally Posted by
Rebelyell
The big carriers maintain contacts in most or all 50 states and would therefore be subject to longarm statutes that would give the local courts jurisdiction in many cases.
See? This is what I mean about escalating to the legal system when you're not a lawyer (I assume) and you don't fully understand it. A carrier which has appropriate contacts in a state can be sued based on the contacts, not a longarm statute. Longarm statutes are for bringing suit against a defendant which
does not have contacts in the forum state.