Priceline Hotel: 4* Dublin (Airport) Crown Plaza

[LAX]

First bid @ $85 with offer to raise $22 and resubmit. With both limited time and limited rebid zones, I went ahead and bid $107 and won the Crown Plaza. The nearest price comparison was on Hotwire at $119.

Your Offer Price Per Room, Per Night: US$107.00

Subtotal: US$107.00

Taxes & Service Fees: US$22.14

Total Charges: US$129.14

[thereuare]

Congratulations on your win!

Glad to see it went 'quick and easy' for you.

Enjoy your stay.

[LHFlyer]

Hotwire includes tax, so it would have been $3 cheaper.

[LAX]

I am at the hotel now, and noticed that the TV shows a credit (payment from Priceline) of EUR 72, which converts to USD 106.

It would appear that Priceline essentially sold the hotel for $1 profit. I'm not sure how the $22 offer to raise my $85 bid without changing any parameters is triggered, but am a bit surprised that PL wouldn't have initially tried to make more profit than this. With counter-offers I've been able to win for slightly less than their suggestion, but in this case I'm not sure if they would have suggested a higher rate if, for say, my bid was initially $100. Would they have tried to ask for $6 or possible more, since mentally it would have made me feel as if the margin to a win would have been marginally higher than the initial bid.