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Travelocity Stole $2,594.55 Of My Honeymoon Money!
James booked two flights for his honeymoon with Travelocity, but when it became obvious that their visas weren't going to come in on time, James asked Travelocity if he could reschedule. They assured him that he could, so James followed their instructions and FedExed his tickets back to Travelocity. He then waited for them to call to complete the transaction. They called 2 days after he was originally scheduled to leave and left a message saying that he could now reschedule. When he called them back, Travelocity said that they'd neglected to inform the airline that he was going to be rescheduling, so they'd been marked as "no shows" and were out of luck... and out of $2,584.55. More »
movies
Summer means movies, but don't get stuck paying $12 per ticket or $7 for a bag of popcorn. Instead, check out these nine ways to slash your movie budget without missing any summer blockbusters.
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9 Ways To Save At The Movies
Summer means movies, but don't get stuck paying $12 per ticket or $7 for a bag of popcorn. Instead, check out these nine ways to slash your movie budget without missing any summer blockbusters.
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hidden fees
Accurately Compare Airline Fees With Handy Charts
Finding a competitively priced airline ticket is tricky enough without each airline having its own myriad of fees and individual policies. Fortunately, the Airfarewatchdog blog lists most of the fees for the major airlines in one place. Combine it with their checked bag fee chart, and now you know all the fees. This makes meaningful comparison much easier. Otherwise, you might have to go through the entire ticket purchase process before you could figure out your total including fees. They are also "the only site that lists low airfares on all airlines, including Southwest. And [they] include special fares that you can only buy on the airline's own sites."
Those extra airline fees, compared airline by airline [Airfarewatchdog]
Checked bag fees, airline by airline [Airfarewatchdog]
whoops
How Do The Detroit Lions Feel About Season Ticket Holders? "F--- 'Em"
Kevin Furlong is a season ticket holder with the Detroit Lions. As masochistic as that sounds, it seems that Kevin didn't appreciate an email that the Lions inadvertently sent him concerning a problem with his tickets. The email read: "Lance...he is not talking about you here. Mark was asked to speak to these people and he said no. F... 'em until next year." More »
buddy passes
Why Airline Buddy Passes Suck
This week, travel guy Christopher Elliott talks about the growing worthlessness of buddy passes—the travel vouchers airline employees get for family members, or unhappy customers sometimes get as a peace offering. For examples, "on American Airlines, it’s often less expensive to buy an advance-purchase ticket than to use a buddy pass, once you factor in all taxes and fees." And Continental will add a $100 to $400 surcharge per buddy pass starting this Monday, rendering the "perk" of a buddy pass entirely moot. More »
apologies
The Washingtonian is reporting that a few disgruntled Radiohead fans who were forced to circle the parking lot rather than actually watch the Radiohead show they paid to see (and to park at... parking was included in the ticket price), were offered replacement tickets. In New Jersey. Now, we failed geography and can barely read so we don't actually know where this so-called "New Jersey" is, but it sounds like it's not in Washington D.C. Let's take a look at the map. Nope. Google maps says that the closest NJ Radiohead show (Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ) is a 3 hour drive from the Nissan Pavilion where the first disastrous show took place.
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Disgruntled Radiohead Fans Offered Free Lawn Tickets In New Jersey
The Washingtonian is reporting that a few disgruntled Radiohead fans who were forced to circle the parking lot rather than actually watch the Radiohead show they paid to see (and to park at... parking was included in the ticket price), were offered replacement tickets. In New Jersey. Now, we failed geography and can barely read so we don't actually know where this so-called "New Jersey" is, but it sounds like it's not in Washington D.C. Let's take a look at the map. Nope. Google maps says that the closest NJ Radiohead show (Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ) is a 3 hour drive from the Nissan Pavilion where the first disastrous show took place.
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tickets
Reader Santiago CC'd us on a letter to Ticketmaster's parent company, IAC. As we've mentioned before, Radiohead fans are upset with Ticketmaster for linking to and promoting a "partner" ticket reseller that is charging exorbitant amounts of money for hard-to-get Radiohead tickets.
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Dear Ticketmaster, Stop Scalping Your Own Tickets
Reader Santiago CC'd us on a letter to Ticketmaster's parent company, IAC. As we've mentioned before, Radiohead fans are upset with Ticketmaster for linking to and promoting a "partner" ticket reseller that is charging exorbitant amounts of money for hard-to-get Radiohead tickets.
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good company
Regal Cinema In Boise, Idaho Is Awesome, Even When You've Clearly Screwed Up
Dave did something really stupid last weekend (no offense Dave), and bought two tickets to see "Iron Man" on the wrong day. He didn't realize his mistake until Saturday, when he thought he was going to go see the movie. We would have never even bothered to call Regal to beg for ticket leniency, but Dave tried it anyway—and the theater actually exchanged the expired tickets for two new ones. More »
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American Airlines Is Losing $3.3 Million A Day
Every day, American Airlines gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror, thinks about the $3.3 million dollars it lost yesterday, brushes its teeth and gets ready to lose another $3.3 million. Fortune says the hemorrhaging began in January, and while red ink is no stranger to the airline industry, they're running out of things to cut. More »
tickets
Ticketmaster is directing fans seeking hard-to-find Radiohead tickets to a ticket-reselling partner website called "Tickets Now."
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Ticketmaster Now In The Ticket Scalping Business?
Ticketmaster is directing fans seeking hard-to-find Radiohead tickets to a ticket-reselling partner website called "Tickets Now."
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above and beyond
The Lion King Sent All This Stuff To A Hospitalized Reader
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Aer Lingus Accidentally Sells Transatlantic Flights For 5 Euros Each
Aer Lingus is apologizing to some 100 customers to whom it accidentally sold transatlantic tickets for a measly 5 Euros. More »
golf
Why Does The Masters Tournament Need Your SSN In Order To Sell You Tickets?
Reader Robert writes:I guess I will never get tickets to the Masters, because I am not sending them my SSN.More »
fees
Ticketmaster charged reader Keith $655 in convenience charges to for two tickets to tonight's Rangers/Devils playoff game. Of course, the tickets in section 118 cost nothing, but we still won't give them the benefit of the doubt. Ticketmaster boasts that special brand of evil that wouldn't object to levying several hundred dollars in convenience charges to a free Raffi concert.
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Ticketmaster Levies Entirely Believable $327 Per Ticket Convenience Charge
Ticketmaster charged reader Keith $655 in convenience charges to for two tickets to tonight's Rangers/Devils playoff game. Of course, the tickets in section 118 cost nothing, but we still won't give them the benefit of the doubt. Ticketmaster boasts that special brand of evil that wouldn't object to levying several hundred dollars in convenience charges to a free Raffi concert.
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DC Tickets And Tows Stolen Car, Releases It To Thief, Then Sends Collection Agency After Owner
Steve Steinberg refused to pay a parking ticket issued after his car had been stolen, so the Washington, DC Department of Motor Vehicles sent a collections agency after him. Steinberg's car was stolen in September of 2006. After he reported the theft, Steinberg says, the DC police and DMV ticketed his car, towed it, then released it to the thief. More »
Hundreds of speeding tickets in Boulder, Colorado may be invalid thanks to a resident who complained about one of the city's photo-radar vans, which frequented a spot clearly marked "no parking" and "tow-away." Said police commander Robert Thomas: "You can't have a van breaking the law and a citizen getting a ticket for breaking the law — that's not right." [dailycamera] (Thanks to Matt!)
