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Originally Posted by chillrob
I never said I "expected" anything. I actually was given free rooms in Vegas for awhile just from having played poker in Atlantic City. I was surprised by that, but happy to take advantage of the deals. I don't know why you think it has anything to do with a sense of entitlement
So now that it's over, is your attitude, "Well, I knew that would never last," or "They're jacking the prices on me!"?
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it is just a huge change in actual price charged, and nowhere near the rate of inflation.
Oh, right.
You're complaining about the inflation rate on a non-equilibrium room price. If you get rooms through comps, or comped rates, the expectation of what you pay is based on their expectation of your donkage. Only if you're buying things off the free market is the expectation of what you pay based on what you actually paid X years ago.
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Honestly I don't see how the problem with the issue is very much related to the search sites at all; the search sites changing wouldn't reduce the actual prices
Because transparency allows the companies to set equilibrium prices based on what they deliver rather than what they can con people into thinking they deliver.
For the lower end hotels, that's going to be a downward pressure because nobody stays at the IP because they think it can deliver $50/night worth of goods. They only get to charge that because they conned people into thinking they were getting $30/night worth of goods for $20/night.