Are you familiar with Priceline Gambling? My bff Chad and I have a mutual problem with it. This has led Chad to many last-minute vacations after his day dreaming of resort hotels got him an unexpectedly low accepted offer. I love Priceline gambling for rental cars, hotels, plane tickets....
This morning I looked up plane tickets home for Christmas, and they were over $400!! I decided to try my luck at Priceline, put in a $200 offer...and got accepted! WHAT? Then I, in my neurotic way, checked kayak.com so I could revel in how much money I saved--and then saw that they offered flights for less! WHAT? HOW DID I WASTE MONEY? HOW DID THE TICKET PRICES CHANGE SO QUICKLY?!?!?
so I am kicking myself, calling Priceline, trying to figure out how on earth I can cry my way out of this ticket because I just cost myself $50!! AHH! I'm on the phone for a while; the guy says he can cancel it with a $150 cancellation fee. No thanks! So I sulk on how I lost money.
Then I check again and turns out kayak is fooling me because when it takes me to the Delta site the tickets ends up really being $455! And again I am happy! Thanks, Delta, for fooling kayak and Priceline and me! And yay that all of this drama took place in a ten minute window, and just indicates my incessant cheapness.
James missed out on the Murdock cheapness somehow. I'm afraid I'm the cheap one in the marriage-- he is more likely to feel that it's not worth the trouble and anxiety invested. (In this case he would be right.) But I can totally relate with this story. How wonderful that you really DID get a great deal.
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