wrote:
the sad thing is, you rarely get a huge score on priceline now. things
are standardizing as demand returns to US tourism. for a couple
wonderful years, hotel rooms were incredibly cheap.

Yeah, I've begun to notice that my usual good deals don't seem
to be popping up anymore. I've gotten better deals through
hotwire than priceline. Airline tickets may still be a good
deal, but I suspect hotels have gone beyond the model. I suspect
from their advertising that at this point they consider
the whole bidding thing to be mostly just advertising and
market research. (It occured to me early on that if they
harvested the info correctly, they could have a huge
database of market research. Who wants to go where, when,
for how much kinda thing.)