Is this true if you go directly to to the airline’s website? We usually check google flights and then the airline directly.
Jym, we did this through BA after checking others and they were less on their website. But checking for prices on other price checking web sites, they did differ. I was surprised (not a big traveler compared to daughters) that the airline sites were many times less directly than going through others like Expedia or student travel. It was enlightening to see lap tops side by side with different numbers, not huge differences, but 20-50 dollars is still significant.
BA?? British Airways?
did I miss how to “privately browse”? Can someone please share or (sorry) repeat?
I’d like to learn how to privately browse and eliminate cookies too! Please! Thanks!
Private browsing:
On Firefox, go to File - New Private Window
On Chrome, go to your menu and New Incognito Window
On Microsoft IE, try Control-Shift-P
Yes, Jym626, British Airways, it was actually cheaper direct this time than other sites. My browser has “in private browsing” but as another poster listed, others have their own.
I also have to have my daughter help me ad block…another annoying thing. ; )
@Happy2help, you live up to your name! Very helpful information–thank you!
My good buy of the day - Two new wedding dresses for $400! I attended a Sample sale with my daughter.
Is there a private browsing for Apple iOS ? I generally browse and then buy later on the airline website. I don’t browse airline website prior to buying–browse other sites.
@walkinghome, why 2 wedding dresses? Glad you got great prices but most only need one.
@HImom - None of us had been to a sample sale before but what we quickly realized was that there was no way that she could make the decision on the dress without at least seeing it in the mirror or talking to someone that knew about alterations. Knowing that she could easily sell either one on-line later made it a no brainer.
Private browsing is a function of the browser, not the OS.
Ok. Thanks. Will have to see if that makes a difference. Have never tried private browsing.
A bit of advice to all of you who use ebates. I’ve noticed that I don’t always receive credit for orders I place so I’ve been keeping a list at my computer where I jot down the purchases I make with the cash back button. I write down the store, date, shopping trip number and order number. That makes it easy to compare the list against pending cash back on the ebates site.
Just last week someone was nice enough to post on this thread that ebates was giving an extra $25 back with a cosmetics purchase of $100 at Macy’s. I placed one order for the cosmetics and another Macy’s order for shoes. They quickly posted credit for the shoes but after a week I still hadn’t received credit for the cosmetics. I have to say that ebates customer service is wonderful. There is an online form to report missing purchases and they make the correction immediately. It required an additional email to get the $25 promotion, but they responded promptly and corrected my account.
I love using ebates, but it does require some attention to make sure you get all the rebates.
We travelled overseas recently and hadn’t received the new USAA card before we left. They are switching from MC to visa, and the visa comes with no international fee. We used discover (which is diners club over there) where we could because there is no international fee but had to use the MC when discover wasn’t accepted. Was anticipating a bill with the 1% international fee that the MC had previously charged, but USAA has sent us the new cards and transferred the rather large balance to the new cards— with no international fee!!
Ebates is giving 15% cashback today at 250 of their partner stores.
@HImom : “flying as patient?”
@Happy2Help : Yes, I’ve heard that clearing the cookies makes a difference in what the airline shopping sites will make available to a shopper as well. Additionally, it has been reported that Apple users get higher rates than Windows users. Something about assumed class of computer-type user. (Don’t shoot the messenger.)
An email from Amazon’s MyHabit:
Looks like they want to consolidate everything under one big roof of Amazon.
@Waiting2exhale, yes, I buy tickets to fly to my medical appointments. I search online on itasoftware.com (mostly on my iPad mini–sometimes also on my PC desktop) and then generally go on our PC desktop computer and buy the tickets directly from the airline website. It works pretty well. I try not to make myself crazy with the price differences and do the best we can.
I have also heard that they have slightly higher pricing for Apple users tha PC users, but have never gotten firm proof one way or another. I generally trust my desktop PC more than my smaller Apple devices for purchasing airline tickets, sothat’s why I’ve been using the desktop for purchases.