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Destination 
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$ 0
Mar 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada
No charge for helpful travel agent  more... close row
$ 8
May 2008
Los Angeles - London
Cheap tickets and cancellation insurance  more... close row
$ 0
Oct 2006
phoenix to ft lauderdale
Online site fills airline seats for very low prices  more... close row
$ 0
Sep 2007
Phoenix to San Francisco
Online ticket reselling  more... close row

Description of service

The price was for the cost over and above the price of the ticket sold (i.e. none) to use the company's online airline ticket arbitrage scheme. Basically what they do is they buy the tickets at a discounted price weeks before a flight, then sell the tickets to people at lower rates than the airlines do at the last minute before flights.


Review of Service

Saved me $300 on two round trip first class tickets to SF on a major airline so I'd have to say I'm pretty happy with the service. Shame, though, we had to book a hotel separately. It would have been nice to have the same scheme for hotel bookings since we ended up at a hotel during a convention and had a bear of a time getting a decent room.


Tips

Honestly I would have thought that this sort of thing (reselling tickets) would be illegal what with the TSA and whatnot. I mean, it's exactly the same as ticket scalping. Guess I shouldn't expect that just because things seem like they would be illegal that they necessarily are.

You'll almost certainly get better deals if you order the tickets early yourself so if you're going on vacation, do that as part of the planning.


$ 0
Mar 2008
Caribbean cruise
Online travel agencies save time and money  more... close row
$ 0
May 2008
Cyprus, Greece
Twenty minutes to plan vacation  more... close row
$ 20
Jan 2008
Seattle, WA
Fee for online travel agency  more... close row
$ 0
Aug 2007
Phoenix to New York
Online travel agents very easy  more... close row
$ 0
May 2008
Phoenix to Chicago
Free online travel agent  more... close row
$ 0
Oct 2010
Origin of Travel/Destination
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$ 0
Jan 2007
Oslo, Norway
Online travel agent got me to Oslo  more... close row
$ 0
May 2007
Thailand
No service fee for online travel agent  more... close row