Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by loceng on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:07PM
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I had to recently book a hotel for a few nights. Hotels are mostly empty because of COVID. When I called to book a room it was clearly a script being followed with high pressure tactics including saying rooms are filling up quickly. Once I arrived at the hotel it looked mostly dead, and I when I asked the manager who was helping me behind the counter, he said they were at 10% capacity. It should also be illegal for businesses to misrepresent their inventory.
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Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by asdff on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:31PM
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So many websites resort to this, frankly it's embarrasing used car salesmen level tactics. My favorite is the petition websites like change.org. The ticking of people signing the petition before your eyes is entirely artificial. Refresh the page and the count resets.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by o-__-o on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:05PM
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Oh so like reddit today!
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by Igelau on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:08PM
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To be fair, they had just experienced a sudden exponential surge in interest: your phone call.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by whitebread on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:31PM
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/s?
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by marcosdumay on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:10PM
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Seems highly redundant.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by MaxBarraclough on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:42PM
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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority had a clamp-down on exactly this last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/06/hotel-booki...
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by brad_Saggy on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:29AM
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I had learned after moving to the US (pretty much any western country), it is all about "wordplay". What the agent did was not illegal. What they said could be true in their own terms.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by userbinator on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:39PM
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I don't know what's more amusing, the fact that they didn't change the script at all for the current conditions, or that there are probably still people falling for it.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by punitxsmart on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:40PM
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I agree with the sentiment. But, it should not be illegal to lie about your inventory. As long as you are receiving what is promised by them at a price that you both agree, its all fair game.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by rileymat2 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:54PM
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I don't understand this position, how is it not a form of fraud?
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by skipnup on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:08PM
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Atleast in the EU it even is forbidden to use false information ("only X rooms/seats/items left" if that isn't true) as a sales tactic.
Re:Grubhub sued for listing restaurants without permission
by mrmuagi on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:31PM
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Deceiving the the other party is a market failure of asymmetrical information. Like being told about a car being all peaches but it's actually a lemon. It's unlawful in most developed countries and is a great way to get a fine and/or a prison sentence.