Hotwire is teasing me with these promo emails advertising ridiculously low prices for car rentals; when I click through to their page, the price has increased by nearly 40%! I would understand if the email was over 24 hours old...but I just received the promo email 3 hours ago! What gives? Meanwhile, Hotwire is making money just by having the teasers go out and driving us to their site - they don't even have to sell anything to have this annoying little exchange (a.k.a. complete waste of my time) pay them dividends via advert revenue. I'm beginning to find Hotwire really icky for their use of this recent email. I don't usually write flaming emails to companies, or post to message boards about it, but this annoyance inspired a heartfelt response, which I might post later for entertainment purposes. Anyone else have this experience with Hotwire? Any ideas on how to get them to own up to their promises or at least just get them to stop the fakery? I don't care if they have fine print in gray text all over their email saying "prices may change", they're full of it if they think they can do this *in the span of just 3 hours* and not have people start talking about it for what it is. Post your stories here if you have any suggestions...
