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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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