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Australia
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Discounted tours 24x7
April 19, 2016

Anytime I log in I get cheap travel deals from this website. The service too is good.

Date of experience: April 19, 2016
New Jersey
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Like many here, I was directed to this website from Skyskanner. They had the cheapest price for a roundtrip flight to Edinburgh. Using my mother's credit card, I purchased tickets and immediately received a confirmation email. However, something didn't set quite right when I read that this email was just a "confirmation of your booking with us, not a confirmation of your ticket" and that the "airline" might send a request for a credit card authorization form. Weird, I thought, but it was late at night so I went to bed.
Woke up this morning and there was an email informing me that my booking was canceled because " fare has been expired by the airline and airline will cancel this reservation by today".
Sketchy English=sketchy company! I IMMEDIATELY dialed the 1-800 number they supplied, and apparently I was lucky in that I got through to someone right away. However, he did not speak very good English, did not give me a clear reason why my fare had been expired, took FOREVER to look things up, and then tried to tell me that I could re-book for a new fare that was about $150 higher.
Since the other website I'd looked at had a fare for only $50 higher, I told him no thank you. He then tried to get me to stay on the line saying "this reservation has already been made" and "you will not get this fare again". I told him to shove it and cancel my reservation IMMEDIATELY. He pretended not to understand me until I had spelled out "CANCEL MY ENTIRE RESERVATION" several times.
Fortunately, I received a confirmation email a few minutes later that my reservation has been canceled. However, now I'm afraid for my mother's credit card information. She moved mountains to help me get this flight, and if she gets charged twice or defrauded, it will be my fault. I really hate to tell her to keep an eye on her charges, but I'm afraid I will have to, after reading all these reviews.
Basically, stay VERY far away from these guys. It sounds like they use all kinds of bulls*** excuses to try and cancel your booking and part you from your money. I am surprised they are even still in business with this amount of fraud evidence.

Date of experience: June 18, 2014
Azerbaijan
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Used the mobile app
December 10, 2015

I used the mobile app to get my tickets. It worked perfectly well. Loved it.

Date of experience: December 10, 2015
Georgia
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Helpful site
December 10, 2015

This gives all the information about flights timing with the best deals. Its really helpful.

Date of experience: December 9, 2015
Finland
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This site provides multi-city tour in low price package. It really helps in the budget.

Date of experience: February 16, 2016
California
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Search for tickets on skyscanner.com ended up on bookairfare.com(which is the same agency - faregeek.com)
Bought tickets - my bank saw transaction and thank God they declined it. I got an email saying my CC was declined which was true story. I called the bank to let them charge it again. Called the agency - they said, ok wait for a few hours we will run it. A few hours later - nothing. Called again - they said - CC is declined. I called my bank and ask to be on hold, called to their agency, merged all calls(you can do it on android via menu option -> merge calls) after that I had 3 people on the phone - me, bank and them. He had no way, but just to confirm that now it's gonna be fine and he will also send me an email to authorize for new charge.
That's how I got to know that they are faregeek.com - because I received an email from *******@faregeek.com
By the way, they asked for $85 more for per person. I agreed.
A couple of hours later - nothing. No ticket, no charge at bank. Wrote an email to Josh - is everything ok?
He confirmed - everything is Ok.
I called them again - I get the same - you CC was declined. Ok, please book it. Sorry, no more seats on that flight, please buy another one. Sure - fine, go ahead. Ok, price increase by $200 each. No thanks, I don't want it. Fine, we will find you some discount. $100 reduced. Fine - go for it.
Sir, actually - I want it to be cancelled. Phone hang up.
Call again - ask for my status. I'm getting you have been processed. I'm asking for which flight? On 29th or 31th? I'm getting 29th. (original date for flight). I explain the situation and describing that it's too much of misinformation for such short period of time. I'm asking for trip cancellation for all my tickets. I'm getting - sir, it's $200 cancellation fee per person. I say - no way, you can't do that.
He assured me that all is OK now and I don't need to cancel it.
I call the bank to ask if there are any charges. No charges and no attempts. I close my CC, ask for new one.
Done.
I guess their business model is explained right now. THey will
1)Cancel you flight if you pay
2)make all sorts of excuses to ask for price raise
3)Waste your time, so you call them later and they will surprise you with new charges.

As soon as you do something with them, call them, get some information, hang up the phone, call again and confirm that information. That's how you start getting misinformation, hence it's all scam.

Date of experience: June 3, 2015
Mexico
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Trip to Venice
January 11, 2016

It was easy to book tickets through this site and reasonable too. The trip was too good. Thank you.

Date of experience: January 11, 2016
Denmark
1 review
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I have used this websites mobile app and its awesome. The deals are great and the speed is fast.

Date of experience: May 19, 2016
Denmark
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I travel frequently and have a list of travel websites. This happens to be one of my favorites.

Date of experience: December 28, 2015
India
1 review
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Good service
November 23, 2015

I am really happy with the service i have got from faregeek.

Date of experience: November 23, 2015
Nigeria
1 review
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Site is excellent
December 30, 2015

I have been using this site for almost two years and I have got the best service.

Date of experience: December 30, 2015
Australia
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Impressive service
May 24, 2016

I used the cheap flight ticket to California and was impressed with the service that I received.

Date of experience: May 23, 2016
Denmark
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No issues while booking
February 7, 2016

I have used this site many times, but never faced any issues with this site.

Date of experience: February 7, 2016
Illinois
1 review
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Prices are Reasonable
December 17, 2015

This site gives the best price for all the destinations.

Date of experience: December 17, 2015
South Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I had to reschedule my flight and they listened and tried very hard to accommodate my changes.

Date of experience: May 21, 2015
Virginia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was put on hold. I am writing this after waiting 45 minutes and I am still on hold!

Date of experience: March 2, 2016
CustomerExperienceTeam F. FareGeek Rep
over a year old

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. We apologize if our service did not meet your expectations as you have experienced a long hold time from the usual time frame. We are trying our best to reduce our more than usual hold time and we have taken every necessary action to nullify such instances & enhance the services as we believe in delivering best customer experience. We would request you to kindly share your booking ID, email ID and contact number so that we can check internally and have this case addressed on priority.

Illinois
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Good Job!
December 29, 2015

Keep up the good job. The service is good and the deals as well.

Date of experience: December 29, 2015
Illinois
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Very friendly
September 8, 2015

Accidentally made a reservation and sage helped me cancel it without being charged. Very grateful.

Date of experience: September 8, 2015
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Rates are good
November 3, 2015

Good rates of tickets and very friendly customer service.

Date of experience: November 3, 2015
District of Columbia
1 review
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Available always
November 21, 2015

This site hold good deals which is always available.

Date of experience: November 21, 2015

Overview

FareGeek has a rating of 2.9 stars from 554 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with FareGeek most frequently mention credit card, customer service and confirmation email. FareGeek ranks 237th among Plane Tickets sites.

service
85
value
81
shipping
51
returns
51
quality
70