Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for $17K

Re:Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same ro... by wslh on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:29AM (#46035144)

> Why?

Because you live in an attention economy and the probability of using another service is pretty low. We can also develop our own travel agent with LLMs but that's an outlier of the market, and financially negligible. The problem is about power in the economy.

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Re:Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same ro... by MichaelZuo on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:39AM (#46035259)

This doesn’t make sense, how is your preferred range of attention expenditure even relevant?

If a dozen different HN users expressed a dozen different preferred ranges… would there now have to be viable competitors at each possible step?

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Re:Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same ro... by Supermancho on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:45AM (#46035343)

> This doesn’t make sense, how is your preferred range of attention expenditure even relevant?

This is an ironic statement, insofar as it's myopic.

The implication was clearly a monopoly by market availability (convenience), which is not a legal precept, but a sociological one. Comparing rates across all possible locales and vendors is impractical. This is part of what makes Amazon so successful. Sheer momentum.

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Re:Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same ro... by MichaelZuo on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:49PM (#46116351)

And a dozen different HN users could also claim the same for their preferencez?

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