isles1 said:Genius069 said:MaximoSE said:ssemovsk said:www.Biddingfortravel.com
Best site around once you figure out how to navigate thru it

WORD. I love that site. Saved me many $$$$$$$s.

I do have to agree, the mod there (Sheryl) can be pretty mean at times.

Agree the site is good but not a fan of the mod. I read through the whole set of rules and winning bids from other posts. Finally made a bid on my own, didn't ask for help. Posted my win to help others and I got banned. I think I got banned because I didn't use her links to book my travel. Didn't make sense when I can get Cash Back from FW andI've posted a few wins w/o using the affiliate link that the mod over there pushes. I was never banned.

Now that you have bragged about it and shamed Sheryl, you will be banned.

jlawrence01 said:sgb said:Any recent experiences getting hotels to give you a room with two beds after a winning bid? I am looking for hotels in Maui and Big Island at the end of the month.

TIA.

While there are NO guarantees, I have always received two beds when I have asked for them.

I have only ever had one problem. I've always call and check up on the situation with the hotel and ask for a preference. Then I check whether it is preference or if it is guaranteed. Once with the Drake, they guaranteed it was two beds so we had two more people join us rather than getting them a room. We show up to the Drake and they say that their "lowest" Priceline room is a king bed, not two queens/doubles. In the end, their night manager fixed things but it was a rough couple of discussions with their staff.

Every other time, I've requested specific types and they were able to accommodate. Never count on that though, could all be luck.

Just wondering if anyone has bid the same amount for consecutive days or weeks and finally got it accepted on Priceline. I looked up on both better bidding and bidding for travel and found a hotel goingn for around $75-80. I person even posted that they received a price of $77 for the days I will be in the city. I have tried from 75 to 80 going up a dollar each day, but it still isn't accepted. Seeing that many people have posted and not paid more than $80, I don't want to pay more than $80. I'm just wondering if I keep bidding for $80 if they will finally accept it. This is for travel in October, so I have time to bid.

Also, once I posted my winning bid on better bidding for which I didn't use their link because I couldn't find it (ok, I didn't really look that hard and didn't know I was supposed to). The moderator sent me an email telling me that I should use their link. I guess both of the owners get mad for not using their links.

isles1 said:HawkeyeNFO said:
Now that you have bragged about it and shamed Sheryl, you will be banned.Now I'm 3 for 3. Just won a hotel and posted my results without using their affiliate link. And still I have no been banned. Their references to the affiliate are so obscure, I (legitimately) simply forget to use their link before bidding.

Regardless, there, like here, it is the user-created content that makes their site useful. Banning users that post legitimate information for no other reason than not using an affilate link is counter-productive. For those that have been banned, clearly there is more to their stories.