I don’t.
I understand how easy/hard it is to build applications that work right all the time.
Plus, for travel (topic of this rant) there are always the complicated algorithms for price…and comparing prices is difficult. For instance, I thought that some flights were cheaper tonight, when I was about to buy them, than they were last week. I figured it was just typical fluxuation. Turns out, i entered my cities backwards and the roundtrip that wasn’t what I wanted to do, was cheaper. But the round trip I wanted to do was the same price.
Then we can’t use our freq flyer passes, cause they want double. Blah blah blah. What a pain.
So then I start looking into hotel rooms. And this little Lanai room looks like fun. I browse around the site a bit, then get to a page that’s got some funky layout. Ignoring the funky layout, I enter the dates I’m interested in. I get a price results page.
Top of the page says lowest price is 199.
Down at the room details, the first room is 179. But it’s description starts with a comma. That is “, Traditional…” so there’s some missing information, obviously. There are “null” values in the description too later on. And I figure that I just got to this page in an unexpected way and that the system is screwed up.
Then I see a little further down, that this Lanai room is 179 too. And these rooms have their own secluded pool with a little waterfall. Wouldn’t Sal dig a little waterfall? Book it and argue the point later when talking in person at the front desk with a little heartbroken 3 year old…
Car rental sites were also similarly broken. Compact car? $131. Mid-size is 123. Full size is 105. Premium car is only 91 bucks. How does that work out? Are people really so worried about gas prices that they want to get sub-compacts? I dunno.
All I know is that I’ve got an assortment of questionable reservations…