I’m getting married in July, we picked the Greek Island of Santorini as the destination for our wedding/honeymoon. Not many people are going, nonetheless buying airline tickets for 6 was a pain.
After contacting several B&M travel agencies, we decided to do it all ourselves.
Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and Priceline were our websites of choice. All of them had similar prices but priceline was the cheapest, so we chose it. We needed to buy 6 tickets around $1,300 each, since our banks would not let us go over $5,000.00 on our daily purchases we had to split the order in two.
We both (Carolina my fiancé and I) had 3 tickets in our cart, same flight number, same price, same everything. We both submitted our orders at the same time, Carolina’s order went through but mine did not.
I got a message saying that I needed to redo my order because of some price change, so I did. But then I got the same message, so I did everything again, and again, and again. I tried at least 4 times, before we decided to change the number of passengers to 1. By this time, the price of a single ticket had gone up a hundred bucks ($1,400) but changing the number to 1 made all the difference and the order went through just fine. But I had 2 more tickets left to buy, I didn’t want to try priceline again so I went ahead and bought them from orbitz.
My frustration with priceline is that, if they have some sort of limitations on the amount of tickets they can sell per flight, just tell me so! Don’t make me go in an infinite loop trying to buy the tickets because you are telling me you still have tickets available. I can’t figure out the reason why they do this (if somebody know please let me know)
I called them the next morning to tell them what had happened, but they couldn’t answer any of my questions or help me in any way, so they lost a customer.
Next time you’re out shopping for an airfare ticket, remember this: “priceline sucks!”, seriously it does. Okay, I admit that was my frustration talking, but one thing I learned from this experience is that cheap doesn’t always mean better.
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