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Indiana Jones-like Adventures with EXPEDIA

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

 

Buy online a flight ticket (Not necessary to an exotic place)

 

Find out that your EXPEDIA never book your flight

 

Spend hours in the phone trying to fix the problem EXPEDIA generated.

 

Buy another ticket to your destination using a “real travel agent”. (At this point you are afraid that other online travel sites like Orbitz, Priceline or Travelocity will do the same and you prefer to go to a real office, and arrange your flight)

 

Trying to have your money back (The money EXPEDIA charged in your credit card for the flight they never arranged)

 

Keep asking EXPEDIA to reimburse your money by pone and receive anything else but lies.

 

Talk to different EXPEDIA representatives in Philippines

 

Realize that EXPEDIA is trying to scam you.

 

Create this  website to alert people about the EXPEDIA scam

 

Find out that EXPEDIA was cheating people  (read a lot of complaint about EXPEDIA here: http://www.expedianews.com dating back from 2001)

 

Find out that a nazi sympathizer claims he is working for EXPEDIA and make fun of a customer that apparently  was cheated by EXPEDIA (Don’t miss this episode of the adventure, watch the picture of a guy digitally put a picture of his head on the body of a Nazi officer who’s with Adolph Hitler: http://defineyourworld.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/expedias-finest-in-action/ )

 

 

Receive insults from someone working apparently for People Support International (A company that promote themselves as   service provider to EXPEDIA in Philippines) (I’ll put the whole story soon since I asked EXPEDIA and People Support International to confirm or deny that that guy work for them . No response so far)

 

Make jokes about your scammer (read this JOKES, very funny)

 

This adventure is not over. Come back soon for more exciting news about the kid of “Indiana Jones” adventures you can have with EXPEDIA. If you are looking for this kind of adventures. GO ahead book with EXPEDIA and have this fun

The only thing that bothers me is that George Lucas agreed to make business with a scamer. I love his movies but this was a cheap , cheap, deal that Mr. Lucas didn’t need it.

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What is the percentage of EXPEDIA’s income that comes through scam?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

 EMOB: the most successful and dangerous travel scam
EMOB = EXPEDIA Model Of Business (Electronic MOB)
 If you buy a ticket for 1,249.95 U$D EXPEDIA will charge you a 5 U$D fee and it will appear a total 1,254.95 U$D transaction in your credit card.
What if EXPEDIA fail to provide the service? What if EXPEDIA never arrange your trip?
Who keeps that money? Do you think that the airline see that money? Do you think EXPEDIA cheats people to make the airlines richer? 
If the airline never sees that money then EXPEDIA can make a fortune by simply selling something (tickets, rooms). Then, they just need to find an excuse (or even lie or cheat you) to not provide the service and keep your money. Read about the dirty tricks EXPEDIA can use to do that. IN FACT,  EXPEDIA used many of them when they tried to scam me. (Read my case ).
In my case the conclusion is pretty simple:
EXPEDIA failed to arrange my trip, then EXPEDIA lied to me = EXPEDIA tried to scam me. Thus, EXPEDIA is a scammer and EMOB (EXPEDIA model of business) had become the most successful scam for these reasons:
-          People believe EXPEDIA is a honest company (until they are scammed)
-          By running alongside a legitimate business, EXPEDIA can scam other customers and make millions by cheating and scamming people.
-          The media is reluctant to publish complaints about EXPEDIA probably because they are afraid to lose the money they make by advertising them (EXPEDIA spend ~ 170 M U$D in advertising).
-          EXPEDIA has “friends” that help them to delete negative aspects about them in the internet (read about the “Wikipedia affair”: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/wiki.htm )
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 1,254.95 U$D but thanks to my credit card I could recover all that money. Technically speaking, I was scammed for 6-7 months because EXPEDIA kept my money (with no other intention but to scam me) for that time until my credit card forced them to reimburse it. Other customers might not be lucky as I was.
Just do a simple math: 1,254.96 U$D per customer scammed is a very profitable business. They can make million scamming thousand of people like they tried with me. Even if the money EXPEDIA makes by scamming people is a small percentage compared to their legitimate business is very significant.
I’m not alone. Most of these people feel they were cheated by EXPEDIA in one way or another:
http://www.expedianews.com
 Be careful, you (or your friends and/or relatives) might be the next victim and/or lose thousand of dollars due to their unethical business practice.
 

 

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