Kill the site? What do you mean?

Personally I wouldn't try for a rate guarantee claim with such a small price difference. But we each have to decide what we want to try for.

I'll let Nacho comment for herself, but IMO what she means is once IHG gets a valid best rate guarantee claim that they make the comparison site stop selling that hotel for the former rate, thus "kill the site""

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According to the OP, that .20cent difference was going to save him $240 over a 3-week stay.

Cheers.

[QUOTE=BKKLEE;18926737]I'll let Nacho comment for herself, but IMO what she means is once IHG gets a valid best rate guarantee claim that they make the comparison site stop selling that hotel for the former rate, thus "kill the site""

[QUOTE=GrizShel;18926455]Kill the site? What do you mean?
Yes exactly, once I called IHG to file a BRG for an IC, and they asked for the site and asked me to hold. I was on the 3rd party site while waiting the agent to verify the rate, when she got back to me she said she couldn't find the rate. So I pressed refresh on my browser and the rate was no longer available.

Fortunately there was another one - so I got my free night at an IC.

Also once you have filed a claim, the rate disappears for a while before popping up again for IHG BRG.

So far Marriott has killed 1 site as far as I know.

Ms Sharon, I have enormous respect for what you do on FT, so I'll shut and we'lljust disagree on this one. Doesn't mean I think I'm right and you're wrong...just means we're different.

And on that we agree. Neither right nor wrong for any of us; just different viewpoints

Cheers.

I filed one for .01 difference. Saves me 25% and just following their rules

I have seen rates disappear from at least 4 different sites after I've filed successful LNF claims. In one case the next morning, but usually with a bit more of a lag.

It's easy for me tell because (as I explained in more detail above, in post 22) I tend to need to stay in the same area again and again and again and again, so I keep checking for LNFs in the same area repeatedly, first obviously trying what's worked before.

In fact, of 5 sites I've used for 4 Marriott family hotels in one area, only one of those 4 hotels, at only one of those 5 third-party sites, has kept their LNFable rate up on an ongoing basis for months.

It's a lot more difficult to find LNF rate for hotels outside the US. The voucher restriction made most site not valid for LNF claims.

I can't get over how little some of you appear to value your time... If the only reward for finding a lower fare elsewhere was a price-match, would you still go thru the hassle of filing a claim? For 20 cents?

Anybody who answers "yes" to that is off my dance card... No girl in her right mind would touch you with a 10-foot pole.

Is this a serious question? Obviously no one is going to submit such a claim for a price match to save $0.20. However, in this case, this LNF saved me $20 a night, for 7 nights, for a total savings of $140. It took me 10 minutes to find this rate.

I certainly don't value my time at more than $840/hour, so yes, this was a good decision.

If you passed up 10 minutes of work that would save you $140, most women would consider you lazy and a poor manager of money, and therefore would not touch you with a 10-foot pole.

It's NOT $0.02 you save, it's whatever the lower rate is -25%

Unless you constantly find Marriott rooms for around $10 a night, and if you do, please do share with us.

DeltaPurser was saying that IF the only savings was a price-match, instead of the extra 25% discount, would anyone still submit a claim for a $0.20 savings. Which is obviously a dumb question b/c no one would waste their time with such a thing.

The whole point of the LNF scheme is to do price differentiation. For those who don't bother looking, they can just pay whatever Marriott.com asks for. For savvy people like me, it's a great scheme.

Most people won't even bother the 25% off reduction. I talked to people about this, and most of them were fascinated but then 'yeah right, I don't bother looking'.

It's all depend on time cost for each individual - Mr. Nacho would never look as he earns more if he uses the time to work than to look for lower rate. For some other it might be in their instinct to save $.

This thread is not started up to judge people whether they care about $0.02 - we value our time differently and each individual has their own principle.