priceline

Maybe even enough to break the priceline/expedia market grip and bring people right to the chains website.

Thus if the number represents you paying $100 to priceline.com, it can only be used for a single transfer of 100.

The background of the Priceline guy is in using game theory and psychological tricks to maximize the addictiveness of slot machines.

Are you comparing published list prices, or the opaque prices through priceline / hotwire?

But airbnb has a long way to go to be Expedia / Priceline size.

Integrating with all the 3rd party ticketing sites (kayak, orbitz, priceline), and ALL the first party ones (delta, united...

That leaves Expedia, Priceline & TripAdvisor as the remaining 3 big players.

I'm a front end developer and would be happy to answer any questions @ hannah.buchanan@priceline.com.

I wanted to know how are you differentiating from much bigger player like Priceline findgroupdeals.hotelplanner.

Basically, we are trying to do what Kayak, Priceline and sites alike did to travel agents, but for loan brokers in the alternative lending space.

Rocketmiles, recently acquired by Priceline, helps frequent travelers vacation faster by earning huge rewards for booking hotels.

That's the whole point of Priceline, to apply these tricks to online shopping to maximize the revenue.

Airbnb is often several times more expensive than the opaque 3* hotel deals on Priceline!