"Bait and Switch" implies intent. It's not clear there was any real intent here rather than buggy IT. Also, there was no "switch" involved. You are getting the exact same product at a higher price. The psychology of a bait and switch scam fails if you they don't offer the switch -- "Oh, sorry, we sold out of that sale item, but here's a better product that costs a little more". If they really wanted to charge you more, they could have just listed a higher price in the initial search. It's not like you came to WN's website as the result of a comparison price shopping on another site as WN doesn't distribute pricing to OTA's. All raising the price at checkout does is piss people off and cause them to go look at a competitor. Occam's razor.


Everyone understands how this is frustrating, but it's big leap to claim this is some sort of intentional "Bait and Switch" scam.