PSA: Do Not Use FlightHub
Just thought I would share my experience here. I was searching for flights today (destination irrelevant to this post) and stumbled across FlightHub. Found a deal for $1100 and was pretty excited about it. But after inputting all my credit card details etc, I get a pop-up saying "Flight is sold out, next available flight is $2,700. Please OK to proceed."
WTF.
My heart was racing but of course, I pressed "Cancel". I opened up Chrome in incognito and did another search. This time flights showed up as $1,300+. Hm, curious.
So I jumped on another machine & ran the search again. This time, I got $1050 for online booking or $1007 for phone booking. I rather do everything online but thought it was worth the hassle of calling in to save another 40 bucks. I call in and have to go through a sales spiel to say no to optional extras but when it came time to finalize the booking, "apparently" the only price available was $1037. Whatever, that's a good price and I was mentally exhausted, plus I now had the perception that I may lose out.
After I had calmed down a bit, I happened to remember that Cheapoair has pretty good prices, so I went to check it out. Low and behold, exact same flights were going for $900.
Fortunately, not a huge loss in comparison but please do learn from my mistake. Caveat Emptor.
(Fingers crossed everything going forward with my ticket works out but nevertheless, FlightHub's tactics are extremely manipulative, especially the massive markup to $2,700 at the start.)
Submitted September 21, 2017 at 08:06PM by feijoalover http://ift.tt/2xU4cut
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