Originally Posted by
seawolf
KVS instead of sending a "Sorry of the inconvenience but the flight availability feature is no longer available; here's a pro-rated refund or extension" email, provides some dodgy instruction on how to obtain a GTC account which was clearly not intended or available to the general public. Essentially KVS is having you, the donor, take on the legal risk of accessing a system which you have no permission to access so that he can keep his donations coming in.
If KVS is going out of business, it would be due to his PR skills (or lack of - especially with the bit about violating his ToS to provide the data sites it access when his tool is violating multiple ToS from the underlying data providers).
Well said!
Originally Posted by
javabytes
So let me see if I have this straight.
KVS is a specialized web browser. One that I'm prohibited from ascertaining which websites it visits, yet I assume all the responsibility for accessing such websites?
Yep.
Originally Posted by
javabytes
The format is quite nice. In the past, when many of the old methods still existed, the sites where the data is available often required you to have an understanding of Russian, Japanese, etc. if you wanted to have any shot at getting the data yourself.
Exactly, now you can either scrape free websites and of course they can pull the plug at any time or pay ATPCO or GDS for their data.
I'm still happy about KVS in general, I love the tool and I used it many times in the past, especially the availability and the base fare listings. Really handy for finding error fares etc. but its kinda stressful when it changes every day and there is no consistency and I also have to update it every day
