Non-Refundable rate cancellation
Nov 29, 2019, 11:57 pm
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If I told you the nature of the hotel, and the location, I think a number of the above reflections would change significantly. However, I prefer to keep everyone anonymous. As I said before there was information that was contradictory, and in such cases, is de-facto, misleading. However, I don't want to labour on this...
Thank you for your response.
Thank you for your response.
Nov 30, 2019, 12:51 am
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Nov 30, 2019, 1:09 am
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Nov 30, 2019, 8:23 am
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Even in that case, anyone who believes that a hotel's thought process was "let's wait until RAFO makes a non-refundable reservation, then we'll cut our price a lot - boy, we'll show him!" has a highly inflated idea of his/her own importance to the hotel. There are any number of reasons that could explain a larger-than-usual rate change. I repeat: They are not out to get you. They probably have no idea who you are. Chill. Accept that you did something that seemed like a good idea at the time, but that in retrospect you could have saved some money by doing something else, and move on.
Nov 30, 2019, 10:08 am
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Debating why a private business changes its prices is not helpful and is a red herring.
OP chose to book a non-refundable rate at the time he booked. After that, the rate could have stayed the same, gone up or gone down. Whether it does and by how much is none of OP's concern as he chose the non-refundable rate.
The bottom line is that we all make choices and OP made one here.
What is offensive is the "scamming" allegation. That is baseless and ought to be changed to "hotel insisted on honoring contract"
OP chose to book a non-refundable rate at the time he booked. After that, the rate could have stayed the same, gone up or gone down. Whether it does and by how much is none of OP's concern as he chose the non-refundable rate.
The bottom line is that we all make choices and OP made one here.
What is offensive is the "scamming" allegation. That is baseless and ought to be changed to "hotel insisted on honoring contract"
Nov 30, 2019, 1:54 pm
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Nov 30, 2019, 1:59 pm
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Nov 30, 2019, 2:22 pm
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Nov 30, 2019, 3:44 pm
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Allegation?. ha.
You don't even know who the "allegation" is against, so you should really get off your high horse.
You know half the story and call it 'click bait' like any ignorant might. You're the offensive person here.
The hypocrisy oozing from you is incredible. Let me put this simple for you: You're offended on behalf of a party you neither know the identity of or personally.
You criticise me in an unsolicited manner where I was seeking assistance. The fact you continued your unhelpfulness despite continual efforts by myself to close this, simply shows you for the person you are.
The fact you write about me in the third person just shows a lack of respect and lack of purpose to the drivel you've concocted. Please go and bother someone else.
You don't even know who the "allegation" is against, so you should really get off your high horse.
You know half the story and call it 'click bait' like any ignorant might. You're the offensive person here.
The hypocrisy oozing from you is incredible. Let me put this simple for you: You're offended on behalf of a party you neither know the identity of or personally.
You criticise me in an unsolicited manner where I was seeking assistance. The fact you continued your unhelpfulness despite continual efforts by myself to close this, simply shows you for the person you are.
The fact you write about me in the third person just shows a lack of respect and lack of purpose to the drivel you've concocted. Please go and bother someone else.
You made and got the benefit of the bargain you selected.
Nov 30, 2019, 4:25 pm
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If the hotel is independent and has more than 10 room or so, it uses revenue management software. While the internal functionality is complicated, the front end is not difficult to understand or use. It's a business expense that literally pays for itself over a fairly short amount of time.
You're certainly free to disagree with me and the other people posting here. But, my opinion is an educated one based on many years of experience. At this point, I'm not really here to convince you of anything. I'm merely correcting your false statements so that other people who visit this thread don't receive false information.
Nov 30, 2019, 7:04 pm
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Dec 1, 2019, 3:48 am
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It's not about people taking action with regard to your false claims. See, some people visit FlyerTalk because they are interested in how the travel industry works. When I see people saying something untrue (small hotels don't use revenue management software; virtually no hotel ever changes rates by 30%), I am going to speak up to correct the record.
Dec 1, 2019, 3:58 am
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Thank you for your generosity. I certainly do disagree with you, especially your references about my 'false statements' [sic] as that description is nonsense and borderline garbage.
I struggle to think in what context people would act on any of the information I provided(?). Rather, with respect, some people have instead used this as an ego-stroking exercise.
I accepted from the outset that I booked a non-refundable rate. But I don't accept people taking money without providing a service is right and proper. I therefore defend my emotional feeling at the time that I felt scammed, no matter what the small print might say.
I struggle to think in what context people would act on any of the information I provided(?). Rather, with respect, some people have instead used this as an ego-stroking exercise.
I accepted from the outset that I booked a non-refundable rate. But I don't accept people taking money without providing a service is right and proper. I therefore defend my emotional feeling at the time that I felt scammed, no matter what the small print might say.
Dec 1, 2019, 4:20 am
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It's not about people taking action with regard to your false claims. See, some people visit FlyerTalk because they are interested in how the travel industry works. When I see people saying something untrue (small hotels don't use revenue management software; virtually no hotel ever changes rates by 30%), I am going to speak up to correct the record.
Dec 1, 2019, 5:18 am
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