Originally Posted by
MasterGeek
How come the new prepay rates are so low compared to the Pay Later rates (through Priceline) ? Could it be because you watered down your Pay Later deals, or spend less effort hunting the best coupons for each request, in order to drive people to book through you ?
I've noticed that the Pay Later rates are no longer as good as they used to be before you introduced the Pay Now deals.
We have zero control over the pay now rates. We offer them to our customers at exactly the price they are offered to us at by our suppliers. There is no logic in place to adjust the pay now or pay later rates in any way based on the rates returned in either case. We've stated in the past, and we'll state it again that we are 100% consumer-focused. That means we will always put our best foot forward in terms of getting folks the lowest rate we can find based on your eligibility, whether those are pay now or pay later. It's entirely up to you what you wish to book.
Sometimes the pay now rates are significantly below the best discounted pay later rates, sometimes there's only a small difference, while other times, the discounted pay later rates we find aren't lower than the pay now rates. In the last case, we won't even show the pay now rates. It really depends on the situation. Any variations in price that you see are purely coincidental.