Priceline trick

Hi all,

This is my first post in this forum, i read most of the main topics and went through many posts but i am still not able to find anything about the security code. The way i used to work with Priceline was that i would do the trick that was discussed in previous posts, the one with picking the zones that dont have that hotel star rating to get more chances at your price. But what if you want to know how low you can get it for with a price after your hotel was already accepted? So what i used to do was i would put a price in and when it asks me for my creditcard info i would put the correct number of the card but i would mix up the security code purposely. And when i get the message "your hotel bid was not accepted" i know i have to bid higher if i would get the message "please put in the correct creditcard info" i knew that my price was accepted, and that i can bid lower now. And i would just log out and log back in and pick an extra area that again does not have that star rating and i would get another chance at lowering my price. This worked great in Baltimore with a 4 star hotel because out of the 11 (around that much) areas they offer only one has a four star hotel so you get many chances to get the lowest possible price that they offer. It also worked great in Miami with the Resort rating. Please let me know if this has worked for anyone or if its been posted and spoken about already. Thanks and Good Luck to all

I read this same thing over at SD and they said there could be a slight chance it goes through. Depends on the bank.

A safer way is:

Use MBNA/Bank of America Credit Card or CitiBank Online Safe Shop feature which will allow you to create your own virtual temporary credit card number which you can just assign $1.00 to and it will get decline since there will be insufficient funds.

I tried citibank card, even with wrong security code, it will go thought.

Oh my. The Gendarmes will come knocking because I accidentally entered my credit card information with a digit misplaced.

Honestly if you read up the Betterbidding.com and Biddingfortravel.com %90 of times you will have more than enough information, comwbined with extra zones, to make a very educated bid in most places.

I wouldn't risk bidding down with this method.

Thanks OP!

Tried your trick with a low limit credit card. I kept lowering the bid until it asks me to input the correct cc info. Needless to say, saved lots of money for booking a bunch of rooms at a 4 star hotel in SF for a wedding.

I also tried the betterbidding strategy in the past but this is much quicker and easier. At least for me. Thanks again.

I wouldn't recommend putting wrong credit card information also.

However, think about it. If the law officials and Priceline come after you..couldn't you have truly goofed up in entering the information?? I dont think they can do anything about it..or prove it was intentional

Cool, never knew about this. This will make use of some gift card CCS I got...