Patsy R.
FRAUD-SCAM & FAKE 5-star reviews
FRAUD! SCAM! WASTE OF TIME! I purchased a flight ticket on neattravels.com. I immediately received an email and phone call from a Vaughn Miller at 1-866-400-0666 telling me my flight was no longer available. The new fare had increased by $500-600. I was purchasing for someone else so I had to tell the guy on the phone that I would need to get back to him. He assures me that nothing has been charged. The next morning the guy starts calling me claiming he found new fares. Still for $500-600 more than originally quoted on the website, again I tell him the fare and flight does not work. Finally he calls me again and offers me a fare for $200 less. I agree and he tells me i'll be getting an email confirmation. I get the email and its an invoice on paypal. I become super suspicious and tell him I do not feel comfortable paying on paypal and far less to a company other than the airline direct and I cancel my request since no ticket had been issued. I start researching for customer reviews. I notice that all the 5-star reviews are written in broken English. Meanwhile all the negative reviews are written in perfect English (these are real people's reviews and they all claim it's a scam). I also notice the company only responds to good reviews and that's when it dawned on me. Everyone I spoke to on the phone spoke with Indian accents. This company is creating fake profiles and writing their own 5-star reviews. I immediately call my bank and by this point this guy had already attempted to charge my creditcard without my authorization. Luckily my bank declines the charge and cancels my card. The guy kept calling me, so I blocked the 2 phone numbers and any email received from this fake company. Do NOT let their fake response fool you. They did in fact charge my card without my authorization. I had to cancel my card and get a new one. Banks will advise you to do this when there is fraud involved. This is exactly what Neat Travels is - a fraudulent company. If you don't believe me, call the 800 number yourself. It's a bunch of dishonest people with Hindu accents. You can also try this random number they texted me from +1 302 244 0731.
Response from NeattravelsJun 12, 2023
Dear Ms. Rubio, Greetings from NeatTravels.com! I’m sorry to hear about your experience with us. As we checked with our reservation team and got to know that your booking was cancelled and refunded in full, because the fare you booked was no longer available by the airlines. We are really sorry for the awful experience you had with us. We as a travel agency can only give you a cheaper fare but if at times the airline changes the fares or the selected cabin gets full any agency has no control over it, we can only update. This is the only reason why your selected flight was not confirmed and as soon as you booked, it did not get confirmed. And the beauty of being a legit organisation is that we do not charge you and then tell you all this. You authorised us to charge at first, to which we sent a payment request to you via PayPal(which is like one of the oldest mode of online payment platform), you were uncomfortable to make payment via PayPal. That's why we processed the charge. But when you denied after several attempts to speak to you. We immediately processed the refund for the amount charged. We are very sorry that we couldn't confirm your booking, as airlines fares are Dynamic in Nature. No travel agency has control over it. We are small but we are not a Fraud company. We are small and that's why we keep less profit to provide lowest possible fare options to our customer, unlike the big companies that charge a hand and a leg for same flight we sell. We wish you could have given a chance and spoken to us. We still wish to serve to your future needs if you feel like. Please feel free to connect with us for further questions - [email protected] or 1866 400 0666 Thanks & Regards Team NeatTravels



