Premium Price Mistake ex-EU (DoT Will Not Force United To Honor Tickets)

[username]

Suprised nobody started a whitehouse.gov petition

[Achas Veachas]

Suprised nobody started a whitehouse.gov petition

I guess even the idiots gave up on the whole WTP scam...

[ad120]

same here, id be in for a class action

+1

Class action would likely be useless for us.  Just the lawyers would make money.  I spoke with a lawyer.  Since United claims there was fraud committed by selecting your country as Denmark there is really no case.

While I am not a lawyer I believe there is argument here. I can choose to pay in Syrian Pounds, Chinese Yuan, or Russian Ruble if I fancy. I did not select Denmark as my residence rather I chose to pay with their currency.

I'd be in for a lawsuit not for the money and quite frankly I didn't plan on using my tickets. In today's travel industry, the passengers are at clear mercy of the airlines. Therefore whatever rights we do have we must exercise to send a message. Additionally it would generate negative publicity for United. Please feel free to PM me if you'd like for me to participate in a Class Action Lawsuit.

Suprised nobody started a whitehouse.gov petition

thankfully! 
One of those iillegitimises our claim!

[shidduch]

You are right that you can pay in any currency.  however, you had to fill out an address and select a country that address is located in.  unless you happen to have a danish address you were lying.  just because it defaulted to Denmark does not mean that you couldnt have changed it to the United States.  Unless you were totally oblivious to the country field there is no way that its not some sort of deception or fraud.

[rangersin4]

You are right that you can pay in any currency.  however, you had to fill out an address and select a country that address is located in.  unless you happen to have a danish address you were lying.  just because it defaulted to Denmark does not mean that you couldnt have changed it to the United States.  Unless you were totally oblivious to the country field there is no way that its not some sort of deception or fraud.

The system processed my ticket while it said USA at the top of the page. Just because I put in a wrong country doesn't mean that they have a right to cancel a ticketed flight. They admit that the Denmark site was a mistake on their (hiding behind a 3rd party vendor) part even for legitimate Denmark residents. This is like me ordering something on Amazon's UK site because it is cheaper than the US site. The internet is accessible to anyone anywhere so they should've compensated for that and if they want to have location specific discounts, should have a different system for that that doesn't allow US customers to access. Since US customers had access, the DoT should've taken up the complaint according to their own laws.

[shidduch]

You can make up moreh heterim, but there is no denying that the wrong country was put in for the address.  While I did that myself, Im not going to try to fool myself or others in thinking that I didnt have to put in the wrong country to get it.

[rangersin4]

You can make up moreh heterim, but there is no denying that the wrong country was put in for the address.  While I did that myself, Im not going to try to fool myself or others in thinking that I didnt have to put in the wrong country to get it.

There's a big difference between moreh heter and the law.
Entering in a wrong address may or may not cause the Statute to ve thrown out. As Iread it, tthere's nothing in there that talks about this, it only discusses US consumers and flights passing through US cities. It's very clear that online prices that are TICKETED and charged are final. If your website has a glitch and you dont have a failsafe or other mechanism to stop sales from being completed, then it is at your own risk in order to protect consumers.

[username]

If anyone has any info on a Class Action being brought, please let the rest of us know. Since Obama's DoT is in bed with United (http://youtu.be/5YGc4zOqozo) and won't uphold the law, we need to petition the courts.

so start it yourself!

Although it sometimes helps if several people are named as plaintiffs in the suit, a single person is generally enough to file a lawsuit so long as the attorney for the class has a good faith belief that a number of other people were injured in a similar way. It generally takes at least 30-50 people with similar claims, and sometimes many more, to qualify as a class action.

[Ergel]

And we have officially entered stage 7b. You guys are so predictable
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24330551-post470.html

[TimT]

And we have officially entered stage 7b. You guys are so predictable
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24330551-post470.html

Getting closer to 8a (honored)

[Achas Veachas]

Getting closer to 8a (honored)

[ShlockDoc]

The system processed my ticket while it said USA at the top of the page. Just because I put in a wrong country doesn't mean that they have a right to cancel a ticketed flight. They admit that the Denmark site was a mistake on their (hiding behind a 3rd party vendor) part even for legitimate Denmark residents. This is like me ordering something on Amazon's UK site because it is cheaper than the US site. The internet is accessible to anyone anywhere so they should've compensated for that and if they want to have location specific discounts, should have a different system for that that doesn't allow US customers to access. Since US customers had access, the DoT should've taken up the complaint according to their own laws.

OMG, MTFO.

[rangersin4]

OMG, MTFO.

I did already. I thought this forum was for anyone to post whatever they liked, including your opinion as well. The only hope is that it is intelligent and based upon facts.

[Aj3042]

And we have officially entered stage 7b. You guys are so predictable
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24330551-post470.html

Haha so true great link.

[Chapshnell]

This sucks, Government in bed with big corporations.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-25/did-united-put-a-whole-route-in-the-sky-for-one-very-important-passenger-?cmpid=yhoo

Yes sir, you are correct

[Chief Rabbi of New York]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-25/did-united-put-a-whole-route-in-the-sky-for-one-very-important-passenger-?cmpid=yhoo

Yes sir, you are correct

anything we can do? the chief rabbi wants to be mekarov people in Hawaii

[username]

There is already a CR of Hawaii.

[Chapshnell]

anything we can do? the chief rabbi wants to be mekarov people in Hawaii

די קענסט אויפהערן? געניג

[Chief Rabbi of New York]

There is already a CR of Hawaii.

there is a chabad rabbi
what about a chief rabbi?
also the chief rabbi of ny would like to go to help.

does anyone want to sponsor his ticket?

[Achas Veachas]

there is a chabad rabbi
what about a chief rabbi?
also the chief rabbi of ny would like to go to help.

does anyone want to sponsor his ticket?

I'm willing to sponsor a one way ticket to KBL...