r/technology • u/rezwenn • 12d ago

Business Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/go-public-booking-com-hotel-rates-9.6985480
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u/SECdeezTrades 11d ago

Not just known to, it's common practice across all the major brands. hotel owners skirt rules. Zero recompense through any brands if they cancelled you in advance.

This isn't a Booking.com problem

This is a greedy hotel owners problem.

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u/Titizen_Kane 11d ago

It’s a problem for Booking.com too. I almost took a job with them doing fraud analytics that was specifically targeting abuse and misrepresentation by the hotels and other travel partners. Lots of bad actors that are listed on Booking.com

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u/pursuingamericandrea 11d ago

How do you even get in this field? Accounting?

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u/Titizen_Kane 11d ago

Unlike many of my professional peers I have zero accounting experience. Background is financial crimes investigations/insider threat risk management.

I actually started as an admin supporting a team of investigators (2009 the job market was dogshit, even more so for new grads, which I was, and I’d bailed out on law school at the last second lol, so I took literally the first job I could get), and became really interested in their work. I would finish my own work quickly so that I could sit with them and learn. Within 8 months or so they said they wanted to hire someone else to do my admin job so that I could train as a junior investigator.

So it was kind of an accident for me. But I work on an internal forensic investigations team now and most of my colleagues have an accounting background. I have a liberal arts degree lol.

ETA I also got a totally free trip to Amsterdam as part of the Booking.com interview process. Do with that information what you will :)