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Old Aug 22, 2015, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by kauppias
ALL MY BA FLIGHTS have been charged on my credit card. ALL have been cancelled without a email from BA! Great customer service from British Airways!!!
To Not Fly. To Cheat you. British Airways.
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by YuropFlyer
To Not Fly. To Cheat you. British Airways.
Who's cheating who ?
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 3:45 pm
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Originally Posted by cmcbugg
Who's cheating who ?
When BA cancel a fare, without explanation, yet still charge the credit card, I suspect it is BA in the wrong. We all know that sale fares exist ex-Europe for BA and other carrier flights. Why BA chose this course of action is simple. They are arrogant and think they are untouchable.
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 3:49 pm
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Originally Posted by cmcbugg
Who's cheating who ?
I've got a website.

I'm putting up a big "SALE" sign on it for electric fans.

I'm offering the premium electric fan version of a brand which everyone knows is just around as good as the regular electric fan version from competitors (QR..) for about that price.

You're buying my "Premium Electric Fan"

I let you chose delivery date and colour.

I'm charging your credit card.

I cancel your order.

I do not inform you that I cancelled your order..

I might keep your money for a while..

So, who is cheating who?
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by YuropFlyer
I've got a website.

I'm putting up a big "SALE" sign on it for electric fans.

I'm offering the premium electric fan version of a brand which everyone knows is just around as good as the regular electric fan version from competitors (QR..) for about that price.

You're buying my "Premium Electric Fan"

I let you chose delivery date and colour.

I'm charging your credit card.

I cancel your order.

I do not inform you that I cancelled your order..

I might keep your money for a while..

So, who is cheating who?
Except there was no big 'sale' sign in this case.

If there had been... different story. BA's 777 fare on the 777 to Seoul for example. No grounds for arguing 'mistake' in that case.

I'm guessing everyone who bought one of these fares probably also knows that they've been cancelled. Doesn't it work both ways? If we're quick enough to find it and jump on it, then we're also savvy enough to know when it gets cancelled as quickly.
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 4:14 pm
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Originally Posted by LHR/MEL/Europe FF
Except there was no big 'sale' sign in this case.

If there had been... different story. BA's 777 fare on the 777 to Seoul for example. No grounds for arguing 'mistake' in that case.

I'm guessing everyone who bought one of these fares probably also knows that they've been cancelled. Doesn't it work both ways? If we're quick enough to find it and jump on it, then we're also savvy enough to know when it gets cancelled as quickly.
Apart from the very large signs on BA's page at the time about a "SALE" and "THE WORLD IS ON SALE"...
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 4:19 pm
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Originally Posted by LHR/MEL/Europe FF
Except there was no big 'sale' sign in this case.


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Old Aug 22, 2015, 4:21 pm
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ok - fair point!
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Old Aug 22, 2015, 4:33 pm
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Fare basis being "XXXSALE" can't be a coincidence as well.
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Old Aug 23, 2015, 4:19 am
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That's absolutely true. Unless of course you're a frequent visitor to a website where people are posting about how the premium fan is mispriced and they're telling you to get your fan ordered now as the price is wrong and the offer won't last when the retailer realises he listed the price wrong. If that were the case you'd have attempted to take advantage of an obvious mistake. The mistake being obvious because you'd been told by other people that it was a mistake and had entered into the contract in the knowledge of that mistake.


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Originally Posted by cmcbugg


Who's cheating who ?




I've got a website.

I'm putting up a big "SALE" sign on it for electric fans.

I'm offering the premium electric fan version of a brand which everyone knows is just around as good as the regular electric fan version from competitors (QR..) for about that price.

You're buying my "Premium Electric Fan"

I let you chose delivery date and colour.

I'm charging your credit card.

I cancel your order.

I do not inform you that I cancelled your order..

I might keep your money for a while..

So, who is cheating who?
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Old Aug 23, 2015, 6:00 am
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It was clear as water on their site that "seats may be extremely limited at the prices quoted" aka a "good sale".
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Old Aug 23, 2015, 10:02 am
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So is BA actually gonna mail us about this one?

The money has now been taken from my CC and I'd like to either hear about my ticket or get my money back!
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Old Aug 23, 2015, 10:07 am
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Originally Posted by tymoon25
So is BA actually gonna mail us about this one?
They are certainly dragging their feet on this one. Maybe the correspondence department is off for the weekend...
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Old Aug 23, 2015, 10:16 am
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Originally Posted by tymoon25
So is BA actually gonna mail us about this one?

The money has now been taken from my CC and I'd like to either hear about my ticket or get my money back!
According a customer service representative in GCH hotline in the U.S. an email for the cancellation has been forwarded.

I know he was misinformed because I have 5 bookings cancelled and I have not received any cancellation email for any one of them
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Old Aug 23, 2015, 2:47 pm
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I booked this f fare to kul believing it to be a promo

The last time i booked and flew ba to kul was aug 1 1990. The plane was used to ferry uk military personnel into a live fire war zone in Kuwait and i was detained as a hunan shield hostage in Iraq for 131 days

I assumed that the recent 25th anniversary of the event was thecreadon for this promo were several germans were taken hostage as a result if BA acting as a quasi military transport on behalf of the UK government

I look forward to traveling to kl or orherwise arguing this in court and the wider media should Ba now cancel my ticket for, presumably, speaking out recently on this.
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