BookIt Follow Up

Well, well, well.  BookIt.  You thought you could quiet me down.  But you haven't.  

Did you know that the hotel actually contacted me?  Did you realize that they're going to their marketing people now to discuss this matter?  Did you know that I let them know of the forums and recent victims of your stupid bait and switch tactics and how you screwed all of us over? 

No, probably not because you don't answer tweets nor do you look at your Facebook comments.  But that's ok.  

Even if the hotel continues services with you, they're going to be more guarded now.  The seed of doubt has been planted in their mind.  And no offence, they're a large enough company that could make a dent in your company if they withdraw their services/contract with you.  

I continue on twitter and other mediums to confirm to others how crappy you are.  I have to admit, it's been kind of fun.  

I don't have much to lose and probably lots to gain...the satisfaction of putting doubts in people's mind of not booking with you.  

I'm sure you're grateful for having dealt with me.  LOL!

Wholesale

It's amazing that a family of my size (tiny) has to buy at wholesale places sometimes.  I love checking out the wholesale catalog for certain stores.  

But I need to be careful.  OMG.  Seriously.  Those things are money suckers!  Oh, I'll just a bit of that, a bit of this.  Next thing I know, a couple of hundred dollars down the drain!  Granted, I do use the items I buy...but still!  Forking out a couple of hundred dollars at once is scary.  

So I hope to keep browsing instead of continually buying!  

Apps

Half of the fun of a smart phone are all the apps you can download for it.  Some are great for productivity...but mostly, for entertainment.  

I recently downloaded one called Airendipity and I just love it.  For those that follow PostSecret, it's kind of the same idea.  Airendipity involves you writing a message and then "sending" it out to the universe in the form of a paper airplane.  Of course, this is all online so these airplanes always fly!  

You can send whatever you want.  I chose to send some messages that were positive and that were my mantras to go by.  And it's neat because you get to see where your messages have been seen and people can add their comments to it.  

I've been reading a lot of messages from others that I don't know and sometimes even compelled to answer them.  Some are fun.  Some messages are extremely sad.  Some are just neat experiments.  In the words of Forrest Gump, you never know what you're going to get.  

I like that I can respond as some are cries for help and some are just so funny that you can't help but respond.  But in all my messages, they've been positive ones.  I think that if you're going to put something out, why not something good?  

Always great to have more positive energy out there.....maybe you'll get my airplane?

BookIt SUCKS

BookIt is an online travel company that truly just sucks.  I've never had a problem before with online companies, but this company is bad news.  Bait and switch tactics.  Non existent customer service.  Not honouring anything we've paid for.  And outright lies, lies, lies.  

The funniest part about all of this is that they just don't care.  Considering all the tweets, facebook messages, etc., they have yet to respond to me.  I find that amusing. 

BUT having said that, it also shows how crappy of a company they are.  So I may be one small consumer.  But my power as a consumer can be big.  I've taken to Twitter, Facebook, Complaints Board, Better Business Bureau.   BookIt has blocked my tweets on their feed because heaven forbid, they don't want anything negative on their feed.  But others searching BookIt will see all my complaints as a starter. One retweet from a company...and those followers can retweet, etc.  

Social media is a pretty amazing thing but it can be detrimental as that news can spread just as quickly.  My friends start passing the information on and so forth.  

And maybe the impact won't be "huge".  But the word is out there saying they suck.  And if I can prevent one person from booking with them, that's one less person having to deal with this crappy company and their lies.  

So BookIt...bite me.