Clear the cache!

I've found out that Priceline uses three variables to determine unique accounts:
1) Credit Card Numbers (Use AMEX Private Payments or similar to get multiple numbers)
2) Email address (How many places give out free email these days?)
3) Internet cookies (You can delete Internet cookies in Explorer under Tools->Internet Options->Delete Cookies)

Unlimited bids! Enjoy

pitflyer, I've been refused even after doing all three. I believe PL also compares billing address and name, so you might need to use not just a different CC number, but also an address, and perhaps have additional names on the CC account.

Are you sure you deleted your cookie? I've been refused too, puzzled over it, then realized I didn't delete the cookie right. Sometimes I go as far as to use another browser in case Internet Exploder is acting up. Never had the problem then.

I did better than deleting cookies: I used a different computer! Still I was recognized.

Not a problem for me, though. I mostly bid in San Francisco, where free rebids are plentiful.

This has been documented on TOBB.... PL is pretty smart at recognizing duplicate submissions.

What is TOBB, please?

"the-other-bulletin-board"

...which i will admit made me smile!

Maybe we should make "TOBB" an official term/acronym here

So TBOTOBB would be "That B____ On That Other Bulletin Board"?


Now if I get banned on TOBB, we'll know TB monitors this one.

I'll admit it <again>...

that too made me smile!!

You guys are good!

QUOTE (zbenye @ Apr 3 2003, 08:59 PM)

So TBOTOBB would be "That B____ On That Other Bulletin Board"? Now if I get banned on TOBB, we'll know TB monitors this one.

Boys and girls....play nice please!

I had the same thing happen (as WillTravel with his Canadian Visa) using (accidentally) the information from a credit card that I had cancelled. I'd be a little nervous about using this as a bidding technique though because they still have your info. (at least your IP address if you lied about everything else) and if it got to be enough of a problem for them they could probably go after you for it.

Anyone know if TOBB is somehow controlled by HotWire? If it's the one I'm thinking of it seems very pro HotWire and anti-priceline and it seems like they steer people away from getting the best possible deals. In fact don't they have a section to post all of the times where Hotwire beats Priceline, and then Hotwire comes out with ads on their site where they beat Priceline. Wonder if it's a puppet site?

Wow. Good info. to know, so that's how you know prices for so many places. And I caught it . Thanks for the insight.

Well if he's going to be busy deleting posts anyway...

I just had a microwave dinner ... Stouffer's slow roasted roast beef with mashed potatoes BUT what is the point of the "slow roasting" if we are going to microwave the damn thing for 5 minutes???

Send me a PM with a link in it as to which posts you would like edited/deleted.

You can edit for up to 45 minutes (or maybe it's 60, not sure)

Since Priceline considers your bid a 'purchase contract' to buy a hotel room if they have one to sell, I can see that using an invalid credit card can be considered fraud. I too have sometimes been tempted to go down that road (since it's easy to get invalid credit card numbers) but I think it's way too risky and can have too many ramifications.

Just my $.02. Obviously making a MISTAKE and entering a bad credit card is one thing -- but that's a one-off. A pattern of invalid credit cards is just asking for trouble.

Just another post in the long line of 'ok, this shouldn't really be posted' posts

If PL really had a problem with people using invalid card numbers, they'd simply present the "we're sorry but we couldn't find a hotel..." page instead of the "couldn't charge" page. Then there would be no reason to submit a bid with an invalid card number, since the whole purpose of doing so is to find out if PL will try to charge it, meaning a successful bid.

But I think they just don't mind. Eventually you buy something.

I used to use my husband account after my bid was rejected (We have different last names). Priceline used to accept it, but not anymore.

Next time I am going to use a different browser to see if I can rebid using my husband's account.

Hi,
what I do is use different credit cards to different e-mail addresses. Luckily for us our credit cards have to different billing addresses. Secondly, you could use different browsers. Third, make extra profiles in windows, linux or whatever you use as an Operating System.

Nevertheless, I was still unsuccessful . for my bid in Miami, something going on there?

Was the name of the person who is checking in the same in both cases? I suspect that is used as an indicator of a duplicate. Did you use a connection with the same IP address in both cases?

In some profiles yes ,but my name differs from my bf, naturally . I am using the same IP address since I use cable, 4 different credit cards.... + account at priceline UK.

I am not sure if they track IP addresses though. Otherwise as well they would have been able to track to me. Although I had a scare they found out, since I got this screen "that they were unable to charge credit card". Appeared that the bank issued a new one and made this, half way my pricelinebid, invalid .

I have been successful keeping my wife's account separate from mine, as far as Priceline is concerned. I use different credit cards, browsers (Netscape and IE) and email addresses. Our same physical address has not caused a problem so far.

Also, we have different last names.

I am wondering whether PL's computers take note of your IP address. With cable/dsl, this would be a problem; although, I'm sure that firing up the laptop through a dial-up connection as the second computer/browser would negate this problem.

Also, make sure that the billing address on the second person's card is different. My early (read: unsuccesful) attempts tell me that this is more important than a similar/dissimilar last name.