Possible way to get extra bids, within 24hr period - anyone else exper

[slick_gd]

So I am looking to book a hotel in Copenhagen for this Saturday and begin my bidding process. There is only one available zone in Copenhagen, with 2*, 3*, and 4* options.

My first bid was for a 3*, which got rejected (no surprise there). So I closed the browser, re-opened a new one and re-bid just on the 4* (this trick is a fairly well known way of squeezing another bid) and got rejected again. All things are normal so far, and I should be out of bids at this point.

But after the 4* rejection I added the 3* zone and was able to bid yet again! So in essence I bid:

3* (4* automatically included) - rejected

4* - rejected

4* & 3* - rejected

I expected to get 2 bids, but getting the third bid was a complete surprise to me since it is technically an exact copy of my first bid. Maybe there is something in the way PRICELINE classifies bids/re-bids where you can skirt around this. In PRICELINE's eyes it could have been:

3* - checked box

4* - checked box

3*/4* - checked boxes

All different, yet based on PRICELINE's rules the first and third should be identical and should not have been allowed.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[thereuare]

Technically your second bid should have been rejected as well since the star rating you select is the minimum you're willing to accept, and PRICELINE searched for both 3* and 4* hotels on your 3 star bid... thus making your 4* only bid a duplicate as well.

There have been instances where users have been able to have a duplicate bid go thru, simply based upon some glitch in the system, but this is much more the exception than the rule and i wouldn't think that the above would be able to be replicated on a consistent basis and can't be relied upon as a strategy in the future.

If we begin to hear similar stories then perhaps it would be viable, but for the moment i'm guessing it's just a temporary glitch in the system.

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