EMOB: the most succesful and dangerous travel scam.
EMOB = EXPEDIA Model Of Business (Electronic MOB)
If you buy a ticket for 1249,95 U$D EXPEDIA will charge you a 5 U$D fee and it will appear a total 1254,95 U$D transaction in your credit card.
What if EXPEDIA fail to provide the service? What if EXPEDIA never arrange your trip?
Who keeps that money? Do you think that the airline see that money? Do you think EXPEDIA cheats people to make the airlines richer?
If the airline never sees that money then EXPEDIA can make a fortune by simply selling something (tickets, rooms). Then, they just need to find an excuse (or even lie or cheat you) to not provide the service and keep your money. Read about the dirty tricks EXPEDIA can use to do that . (actually EXPEDIA used many of them when they tried to scam me. (Read my case ).
In my case the conclusion is pretty simple:
EXPEDIA failed to arrange my trip, then EXPEDIA lied to me = EXPEDIA tried to scam me.
No matter what EXPEDIA says it was an attempt to scam me. The funny thing is that EXPEDIA failed miserably. They went the extra mile to try to scam me 1254,95 U$D but thanks to my credit card I could recover all that money.
Be careful, you might be the next victim
