Dodge backup systems: how to buy tickets and book hotels cheaper

Every time you purchase a ticket or hotel reservation online I have the impression that I have played against some experienced sharpie, and I somehow always gets on his tricks. In this article I want to share their own experiences, they do not fall for the tricks bronirovschikov hotels and tickets. Special attention deserve tricks reservation systems.

There are only 2-3 places!

In fact it is the most primitive trick and never in my lifetime was not so I sat down in a crowded hotel. Booking.com almost always shows these data that places almost no need to hurry. No need to hurry up, work his head. In his last trip to Italy, I specifically asked the hotel owners - the elderly couples - is it true that they all scored. Not true - were engaged in only 4 of the 16 rooms.

Here is the screenshot you can see how incredibly dropped the price, and how lucky I was - only 1 number and Discount! :)

In the same game played with us the domestic Ostrovok.ru:

Comment "islands": Total number of rooms - this is not the tricks islet, we do not play such games. The number of rooms that you see on the website ostrovok.ru - this is the real number of rooms, which provided for the sale of the hotel, not because we have them even 100,500, but we are catching up in such a way demand. Everyone (especially the large chains), hotel rooms own system of sales and services - one of the ways. If your site islet is written that there was one room - he really was alone.

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If there is no language barrier, the type of phone the hotel and ask them about prices and availability. Find the phone is not difficult, but you would be surprised as the reality of the same booking.com different from the reality of the hotel - a bunch of places, prices are lower, you will still be offered a free breakfast to sell a number of discount program and a lot of that still.

You will always offer something that expensive!

Live system with a percentage of sales, and therefore the first issue of not the most advantageous for you. Again, we do not respond to the spoilers and systematically looking for what we really need.

runaway price

In sales there are concepts such as "cold selling" and "hot sale". If you see a ticket for the first time and found it incredible in some way when they come from another site, then show you an offer - Cold sale. This ticket is often very beneficial and really want to buy. But you, as a rational person, you are going to familiar services and airline sites. Then you return to warm up and click on the most profitable buy tickets. I guarantee you that the price will rise. And the more you study the conditions of the reservation, dock, duration, and an alternative to the more price rises. It can really grow by leaps and bounds.

Here is a sample selection of tickets online OneTwoTrip.ruWhich I often use, that does not prevent them from playing with me in gambling:

The first ticket search and study of the conditions of carriage and other data warm up my status as a buyer from the backup system:

Search again with the decision to buy the ticket after 4 minutes:

Lucky my system - it is my history and belief that with a high probability I make a purchase :) But accessing this website and perform a search in Incognito mode in Google Chrome - a ticket began to cost from 12.490 rub. already 13.297 rubles. - the price of my thoughts already makes 807 rubles.

That is what is the price I have, as it were, a new buyer and cold for the same flight (we went to another computer with a German IP-addresses)!

And of course there are only 1-2 places, but most of the fly in half-empty planes.

The same thing happens to all backup systems, and this I have chosen for the tests because it is constantly use because of the convenience of the interface, and bonus system, which is completely meaningless if such changes prices. Choose carefully and you find most convenient, and buy with Incognito mode or home / work computer.

Here are some examples from the Reddit site that booking can be a lot better than in my example:

+ $ 180 for tickets to Philippines

+ $ 100 amateur "efpyachechnoy"

+ $ 500 for reflection when planning a trip to Rome

Who's sweet

If you bought a Mac, as twice as cheap a PC, you - Honey. If a reserved with the iPhone, then you - Honey. If you live in the United States, other European countries, you - Honey. For example, the site Orbitz shows Apple offers users a higher price range. Those. Prices are the same for all, but in the same query Apple user gets the higher the price inquiries.

Advice here is simple - use a proxy or rational poor countries (such as Germany), buy Windows or Ubuntu.

Here's an example of issuing a flight from New York to Reykjavik on the same dates back / forward. The first search was performed using a US proxy, the second - Germany. Prices speak for themselves even after the conversion of euros to dollars :)

Be spontaneous

When selecting tickets, many reservation systems allow you to set the exact date and ± 3 days. Choose floating dates and tickets at the time of purchase are often cheaper to go. And order your tickets in advance, much in advance - 3-6 months. So your behavior will not be able to push through on their algorithms, no system. See prices constantly and buy with Incognito mode, but it is better from a different computer.

If you have experience and tips on how not to fall for such tricks ticket sellers, hotel rooms, avtoarendy and more, then share it in the comments.

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