Priceline Now Allows Canadian Addresses

[byeloe]

Priceline now allows proper Canadian billing addresses for Hotels and Rental car bidding. Their terms and conditions also reflect this.

[dc3]

I discovered that a couple of days ago and posted it at TOBB (as Virageadroit). I went through a bid as far as the credit card entry thing. Did you try a Visa card?

[byeloe]

Hi

Yes I saw your post over there and thought that I would update this board as well. A friend used a CIBC visa today with success.

[dc3]

Thanks - this will be good news for the real people on the local scene. Some folks thought they were in on some kind of swindle with that loophole thing - though I liked it because it was sort of a secret workaround - made me look to be in the know.

[WillTravel]

I wasn't able to add a credit card with a Canadian address to my profile. Someone on Flyertalk suggested this workaround and it works. I tried it with a new email address - I don't know how it would work with an existing one.

Go through your standard bidding procedure, but don't sign into a profile.

Enter the credit card information with the Canadian address.

You'll be prompted to create a profile. Do so.

Proceed with bid.

(I purposely did this with a bid that I thought would not work, because I was only trying to create a profile.)

[dc3]

You can now use a Canadian address for a saved credit card profile. You just have to be careful when entering your postal code that the format is LETTERNUMBERLETTERSPACENUMBERLETTERNUMBER Any other way and it gives an error. I have confirmed this several times in practice.

[free4ever8]

On priceline.com when completing info on cc , priceline requires US mailing address for non US customers . Is this a loophole for priceline ?

Has anyone come across this? When I tried to email Priceline under CONTACT US , the rule I stated is clearly stated there...????

[thereuare]

Loophole? Huh?

As this thread discusses accepting Canadian addresses is a fairly new event for Priceline and some of their documentation may not be converted yet to their new policy. Some have reported a problem creating a profile with a Canadian address, but no problems with submitting bids without using a profile.

If you have a problem just following the techniques discussed here: PRICELINE FOR NON-US Customers