Indiana Jones-like Adventures with EXPEDIA

Buy online a flight ticket (Not necessary to an exotic place)

Find out that your EXPEDIA never book your flight

Spend hours in the phone trying to fix the problem EXPEDIA generated.

Buy another ticket to your destination using a “real travel agent”. (At this point you are afraid that other online travel sites like Orbitz, Priceline or Travelocity will do the same and you prefer to go to a real office, and arrange your flight)

Trying to have your money back (The money EXPEDIA charged in your credit card for the flight they never arranged)

Keep asking EXPEDIA to reimburse your money by pone and receive anything else but lies.

Talk to different EXPEDIA representatives in Philippines

Realize that EXPEDIA is trying to scam you.

Create this  website to alert people about the EXPEDIA scam

Find out that EXPEDIA was cheating people  (read a lot of complaint about EXPEDIA here: http://www.expedianews.com dating back from 2001)

Find out that a nazi sympathizer claims he is working for EXPEDIA and make fun of a customer that apparently  was cheated by EXPEDIA (Don’t miss this episode of the adventure, watch the picture of a guy digitally put a picture of his head on the body of a Nazi officer who’s with Adolph Hitler: http://defineyourworld.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/expedias-finest-in-action/ )

Receive insults from someone working apparently for People Support International (A company that promote themselves as   service provider to EXPEDIA in Philippines) (I’ll put the whole story soon since I asked EXPEDIA and People Support International to confirm or deny that that guy work for them . No response so far)

Make jokes about your scammer (read this JOKES, very funny)

This adventure is not over. Come back soon for more exciting news about the kid of “Indiana Jones” adventures you can have with EXPEDIA. If you are looking for this kind of adventures. GO ahead book with EXPEDIA and have this fun

The only thing that bothers me is that George Lucas agreed to make business with a scamer. I love his movies but this was a cheap , cheap, deal that Mr. Lucas didn’t need it.

Informative: even USAnews recommends to book directly with the airline instead of EXPEDIA or other online travel sites.

Why to alert people about EXPEDIA (based in my own experience)

If you feel you are special, if you feel it will never happen to you, you are wrong. Even if you had no problem before using EXPEDIA, it is not a guarantee it won’t happen to you in your next trip.

I had used EXPEDIA a couple of time until they revealed what they really are, until they tried to scam me (read my case, including gruesome details of their lies and tricks they used to try to scam me: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/mycase.htm ) 

-         If you travel you can be the next victim of a scam they are running alongside with their legitimate business (they tried to scam me 1254.96 U$D.. and failed miserable).

-         Your relatives and friends might also be the next victims

-         Therefore, you, your relatives and friends may lose thousands of dollars

-         Your vacation might become a nightmare

-         You might not have a vacation at all

-         You can be stuck an any airport because EXPEDIA failed to arrange your trip

-         You can spend a lot of money by calling EXPEDIA from a foreign country trying to fix a trip EXPEDIA failed to arrange

-         You can waste a lot of time when EXPEDIA agents put you in hold for hours (and waste a lot of money in phone calls

-         Thus, you might find yourself  in another country trying to book another flight because EXPEDIA didn’t arrange your trip and abandoned you there with no ticket

-         EXPEDIA does not plan to stop their unethical business practice (read daily complaints in this site)

-         EXPEDIA keeps falsely promoting their services (http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/falseadvertisement.htm )

-         People believe EXPEDIA is a honest company (until they are scammed and is very late)

-         EXPEDIA has “friends” that help them to delete negative comments about them in the internet (read about the Wikipedia Affair: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/wiki.htm )

-         EXPEDIA will never take responsibilities of their own mistakes

-         EXPEDIA will never compensate you for the “extra” money you had to spend due to their mistakes.

-         EXPEDIA will try to keep (steal is the right word) money by charging your credit card a tricky way (http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/cheat.htm ) .

-         You might need to wait months to be reimbursed for the money EXPEDIA charged in your credit card for services they failed to provide (but only when EXPEDIA is forced by your credit card company to reimburse you).

-         EXPEDIA agents will lie to you

-         EXPEDIA supervisors will lie to you

-         EXPEDIA “customer specialist” will lie to you

-         EXPEDIA will ignore your e-mails if you try to contact them for a trouble with your trip or they will send “automatic responses” to make you believe they are taking care of you (read a collection of these kind of messages: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/templates.htm )

-         EXPEDIA might use many of these “dirty tricks” that online travel sites are using to scam people (http://www.victimsofexpedia.com/dirtytricks.htm ) to scam you.

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Why EXPEDIA keep doing this? Because the travel business is very profitable. EXPEDIA can afford to lose thousands of customers because there are still million of people that are unaware of how bad EXPEDIA is. EXPEDIA can still make billions cheating new customers.  So, don’t feel you are “special”, don’t believe “the EXPEDIA promise” , you are not “number one”.

It is up to you to help yourself or your friends or relatives to have a safe trip or vacation. Just alert them.