Far as Smith is concerned, he didn t get the best deal possible because the hotel and Expedia have a

Last week it was national news when two consumers went to federal rental car auckland new zealand court in California to allege that some of the biggest online hotel-room retailers (among them locally based Hotels.com and Travelocity) and hotel chains (including Marriott and Starwood, which owns and operates the W) are engaged in a price-fixing rental car auckland new zealand conspiracy that only makes it look like customers are getting a good deal when they book rooms online. Yesterday, a similar suit hit Dallas federal court this one brought by a San Antonio man hoping to make his a class-action suit.
Alleges James Smith, he got a room at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas via Expedia.com. His suit alleges that he paid artificially inflated prices due to the conspiracy and has been damaged by the conduct alleged herein.
Far as Smith is concerned, he didn t get the best deal possible because the hotel and Expedia have a secret deal that guarantees customers don t pay less than a guaranteed rental car auckland new zealand minimum mark-up. The suit alleges that while the online hotel-booking sites claim to offer competitive, lowest-possible prices, that s far from the reality. Alleges rental car auckland new zealand the suit:
The Online Travel Retailer Defendants advertised best price guarantees are nothing more than an illusion for their conspiracy to fix prices, such that the Online Travel Retailer Defendants do not have to compete on price but can offer the best price to their customers knowing that all of the Online Travel Retailer Defendants will offer the same anti-competitive fixed price. Accordingly, in reality, there is no "so-called" best price but instead there is an unlawful fixed artificially inflated uniform price and price structure.