Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices

Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by ghaff on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:59AM (#32333450)

"Resort fees" are a thing but in my experience you don't see them a lot outside of what are plausibly actual resorts, i.e. typical hotel chains don't usually have them. Of course, there are always lots of taxes that get tacked on. Especially pre-pandemic, I booked lots of hotels. (AirBnB also has cleaning fees etc. although what little I've used AirBnB they seem to be pretty prominently displayed.)

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by BigRedDog1669 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:29PM (#32334603)

On Airbnb there is one price displayed on the map (the daily rate), then when you click on a place, the fees are added and the price changes. But that still doesn't include tax and local fees which add more to the price when you go to confirm. So what you see on the map is quite less than the final price.

I believe there are laws in some locations that make Airbnb show the price upfront on the map and they do for those places. But it doesn't seem to be the norm in the US.

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by avidiax on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:49PM (#32337407)

This is called "drip pricing" and is actively targeted by the EU, UK and Australia.

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by ghaff on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:35PM (#32334661)

Fair enough. I've only ended up staying at an AirBnB once so I'm not terribly familiar with their interface.

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by waffle_ss on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:19AM (#32434675)

This was in the Seattle and Portland areas, and they were just regular hotels, not resorts.

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by zucked on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @02:41PM (#32335335)

Vegas loves these - the last time I stayed on the strip it was $40+/day "resort amenity" fee that they did a great job of hiding throughout the booking and checkin process.

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Re:Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new ... by ghaff on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:42PM (#32336452)

Yeah, Vegas is a particular offender. You can end up paying almost as much in resort fees as you would for a discount casino hotel room itself.

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