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Tripfab launches to eliminate the travel middleman.

3 points| mtjl79 | 14 years ago |betakit.com | reply

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[+] tony_landis|14 years ago|reply
Hi Michael, your site looks pretty slick. Reminds me of airbnb a bit.

The way I understand your marketing pitch, you hate expedia and are going to undercut their prices. I compared one of the top hotels you list in la fortuna with expedia's rates and they are matching tripfab. Seems like their cancellation terms are more lenient also.

http://d.pr/i/LFjl http://d.pr/i/oe1s

Actually, the rooms are shown twice and they could actually be beating your rate, hard to tell. When I tried to proceed to get the tax breakdown I got an error page.

Expedia has a lowest rate guarantee, so how can anyone really hope to undercut them any way?

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For reference:

http://www.expedia.com/Arenal-Volcano-Region-Hotels-Arenal-K...

https://tripfab.com/en-US/costa_rica/la_fortuna/arenal_kioro...

[+] lnguyen|14 years ago|reply
Nitpick: It's not that they're eliminating the "travel middleman" but that they're removing removing unnecessary layers and being a better "middleman" by lowering costs for the consumer.