For reasons I don't want to get into (but are profoundly stupid) I forgot to book tickets to the Mac OS X conference next week. This isn't a huge deal--I'm going regardless, the only question is whether I have to pay for some of the ticket or not. (Oreilly will pick up a portion of the cost, as I'm giving a tutorial)
So, I went to priceline to check things out. Made a reasonably low bid, figuring that if it's not accepted I'll just try again higher. No problem, right?
Well... no.
They came back with an offer almost $200 higher than I put in, which I chose not to accept as I can get the tickets cheaper elsewhere. So I go to rebid. And I find I can't.
Priceline gives you one bid per potential trip. Period. You miss it, you can't try again. I suppose this is to keep people from bidding really low and slowly inching up. What it's really done is lost priceline my business, as I can go elsewhere (southwest in this case, a carrier they don't bid for) and get the tickets. They lose, too bad.
Posted by Dan at September 25, 2002 09:58 AM