Dan
Expedia Customer service is terrible
Expedia Customer service is terrible Just spent over an hour first with an online agent and second with a "supervisor" and their customer service approach is terrible. I never received confirmation of a hotel reservation that I made through them, so I booked another hotel instead through a different entity ("Bookings.com - which is so much better). It seems that Expedia booked the hotel and failed to send me a confirmation for that booking and of course I got a no-show fee from the hotel for not showing up for a booking I did not even know I had. Expedia tells me that a confirmation email was sent to me "the system automatically sent it to you" but they have no ability to prove to me it actually went out. They do not keep copies of confirmation email that they sent to me (convenient isn't it). I have not record of ever receiving this email confirmation. They tried to get the hotel to refund me, which the hotel will not and should not do. The hotel did everything correctly. I would think a company like Expedia would own up to this, but they will not. They said it is our "policy" to not compensate customers for mistakes that customers make. Whatever happened to the approach of "the customer is always right". I told them if they could show me the original email that they sent to me, then I would own up to this being my mistake, but they cannot prove to me they sent it because they do not keep records of communication with their customers. They actually had the audacity to question why it took me 19 days to call them (the booking was for July 1st) and had I called earlier they might have been able to convince the hotel to refund me. Again the hotel did nothing wrong and why would it matter when I called. I was on vacation and did not want to deal with this to I finished my vacation and returned home. Stay away from this company. There are so many other options for booking vacations.


