A hotelier alleges that Booking.com is aware that its subsidiary, Agoda, resells rooms at unauthorized low rates, and suggests other hoteliers complain to Booking.com about the practice.

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        "author": "Greedy3996",
        "excerpt": "We haven't been able to remove them, but we have reduced the number of these bookings significantly by removing ota prepaid from both Expedia and bonkers. Also remove any and all discounts from the ota platform including Expedia fenced discounts.\n\n We also send a platform message to any that do come through advising the guest a that they have booked through a channel which is not an official partn",
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        "excerpt": "Those ones are reselling Expedia rooms that should be packaged. Best you can do is close all Expedia discounts.\n\n Also to all hoteliers here, make complaint to Booking.com.com (if they are reselling the stupid rates as \"partner rates\"). Write that its false advertising (usually amenities are wrong), you are losing revenue and getting complaints. If you are in EU then also go with EU laws angle, th",
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        "author": "mini1337s",
        "excerpt": "Turn off B2B bookings on Expedia. These vendors unfence package rates but there is so much revenue generated through them Expedia doesnt care, especially if you are independent.\n\n Expect your Expedia account manager to reach out quickly and ask you to turn it back on lol",
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        "author": "CressBoth3720",
        "excerpt": "We have stopped honoring any booking via agoda for the same reason. They keep selling our rooms at 50 to 70 dollars less than our advertised rate. If you don't have any contract with them do the same. Also, remember agoda is part of booking.com asian network. Don't let booking.com tell you that they don't know how agoda keep selling your room at low rates. Also, look at stacking in expedia and boo",
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        "excerpt": "What we did at our property is just increased the rates to everyone who’s leaking rates to super.com. Now we get no reservations from them and a really good number of direct reservations, but that’s probably not an option in many regions. Removing member only discounts on OTAs like Expedia, trip.com may also help.",
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        "excerpt": "Just a reminder, you can block rate codes in your PMS system. It isn't fool proof, and if you're branded, the brand will push rate codes through because of \"contracts\" but then won't let you read the contracts.\n\n OTA's can bite it.",
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        "excerpt": "Check your with Rate Mapper. I have manually closed these discounts before. Check what rate plan the reservations are coming in with and then cross check the allocations of how many rooms are allotted to the deep discounts.",
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        "excerpt": "Did you agree for CUG ? Super sells CUG rates. The first people to sign up before purchasing",
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    "post_text": "We own a hotel and we are honestly so fed-up of Super.com reservations . We DID NOT authorize the deep discounts that it offers and neither are those discounts present on the websites that we actually signed contracts with (Booking.com and Expedia).\n\nHas anyone successfully removed their property from Super.com? What are the steps you took? No one is responding to the emails available online and no way to contact anyone. (Extremely frustrated)\n\nI have been successful at reaching Agoda.com but no luck with Super.\n\nPLEASE HELP!",
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