Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge

Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by freeone3000 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:29PM (#20288811)

Why can't they do that? Isn't the entire point of automated inventory management with resale contracts to grant Expedia the ability to do that?

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by perl4ever on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:05PM (#20290577)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch

Incidentally, if HN allowed it, I would have linked the above text to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

...in order to be a little meta.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by simonebrunozzi on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:47PM (#20296759)

Genius. Take my upvote.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by longcommonname on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:45AM (#20292019)

Expedia isn't checking availability, a middle man is, (one of the three GDS).

The middleman isn't checking availability every time because there's a cost to ask the carrier. And if you ask too much they will rate limit or deny you which means you get no availability.

The middleman is a price aggregation person, and tries to find rates and routes using all the rules the carriers specify.

Sure you can buy tickets directly from AA or UA. But what if you want to fly a connection that has both. Do you think AA wants to sell seats on someone's else plane?

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by flukus on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:30AM (#20292191)

Last time I worked in this industry (over a decade ago) sites like expedia didn't work through a GDS but hotels would explicitly put available stock directly into them, if they had 10 rooms availble they might put 5 on expedia, 2 on another site and 1 each on 3 smaller sites. So expedia only has to check it's own data and the prices typically didn't fluctuate intra-day. I was working on software to automate most of this process.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by cat199 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @06:36PM (#20289974)

because if the room didn't ever exist at $129, this was false adversing.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by Frost1x on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:36PM (#20291020)

The spirit of false advertising laws seem to have been sidestepped and thrown out long ago.

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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by larrik on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:54PM (#20290830)

I think the parent post meant "why can't they check inventory in real time?"

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