Re:The Drivers Cooperative
by lotsofpulp on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:40PM
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They used to have roomkey.com and it would show you all the hotel chains' options. Was actually a very nice site, and you could quickly compare all the lowest rewards member pricing (lower than expedia or priceline offerings, since there was no commission to be paid).
They didn't advertise it for years and then and killed it for some reason.
It's also possible that certain markets (especially with expiring goods like hotels and airlines) earn sufficiently more money via price segmentation that it makes sense to pay middlemen. For example, if you have 100 rooms in a hotel, and you can sell 20 of the rooms for $x, the next 20 for 1.1$x, the next 20 for 1.3$x, the next 20 for 1.5$x, and the last 20 for 2$x, then the ability to price discriminate might be worth it.
They didn't advertise it for years and then and killed it for some reason.
It's also possible that certain markets (especially with expiring goods like hotels and airlines) earn sufficiently more money via price segmentation that it makes sense to pay middlemen. For example, if you have 100 rooms in a hotel, and you can sell 20 of the rooms for $x, the next 20 for 1.1$x, the next 20 for 1.3$x, the next 20 for 1.5$x, and the last 20 for 2$x, then the ability to price discriminate might be worth it.