stuseattle Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 We actually need rooms for two different night, non-consecutive. The bidding process took a little while . . here's how it went:First Session: 3/31/11Bidding on Friday, April 29th:$40 4* DTW only REJECTED$45 4* Add Taylor REJECTED (Taylor only has 2* hotels)$45 4* Change Night to Sunday, May 1st REJECTED$35 Add 3.5* Back to First Night REJECTEDTried to move back to second night, with the 3.5* category selected but Priceline was calling it the same session.Second Session: 4/3/11Bidding on Friday, April 29th:$45 4* DTW only REJECTED$40 3.5* DTW only REJECTED$45 3.5* Add Taylor REJECTED-- opened new session in different browser, just in case --Now bidding on the Sunday Night:$48 4* DTW Only - Sunday Night REJECTED$51 4* Add Taylor - Sunday Night REJECTED$48 3.5* - Sunday Night ACCEPTED EMBASSY SUITESEmbassy Suites will be just fine for us . . plus, don't they have that breakfast buffet?I'll go back to try the Friday bidding again in a few days . . . might have to go a bit higher for the 3.5*Of course, we went to PRICELINE via Betterbidding.com . . . love this site! Link to comment
AaronJB Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Congrats on your success and thank you for your compliments on Betterbidding. :)Excellent deal! ES properties have both the breakfast and an evening reception.Thank you for sharing your win and using the site's PRICELINE link to start your purchases and searches.Enjoy your stay. Link to comment
stuseattle Posted April 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 I've also posted this priceline win separately, since it was a different session, but wanted to follow up on the first post:Went back, on April 7th, to try bidding on that first night again. Here's how it went:$48 4* DTW only REJECTED$45 3.5* DTW only REJECTED$49 3.5* Add Taylor REJECTEDWent back today to try at a higher rate . . . since it's a Friday night we want and it's two rooms. This time, we got it . . .here's how the bidding went:$56 4* DTW only REJECTED (Got Priceline offer to rebid if I raise to $71 . . that was too high for me)$56 3.5* DTW only REJECTED$58 3.5* Add Taylor ACCEPTED w/4* property Westin Detroit Metro Airportstu Link to comment
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