Kurtis l.

Tripadvisor has turned into a one stop shop for everything travel, or so they want you to think. The problem is that you book trough them and pay them money. But then you are on your own when the booking does not go through or there are problems. I used Tripadviser to book a rental car. Trip advisor offered a pre-payment with a discount. I did this as it was a much better deal. When getting the car, Budget Car Rental put a hold on my card for another $900. This didn't make sense as I prepaid and bought the insurance, but I grudgingly went along with it. Upon return of the car I assumed everything would be released. But after the long flight home I noticed that they charged me for the full price of the rental? What happened to the prepayment? They charged me twice.
I of course went to Budget with no response. Then I went to TripAdvisor as they are the ones that made the booking and took my money. They say it's not their problem...I think it kind of is because they sold me a booking that THEIR vendor did not support. I paid TripAdvisor the money initially and not Budget. Tripadvisor should not be selling services that they cannot support or have the power to help when issues arise such as this.
The simply say its not their problem and they are simply stealing your money.

This business is actually a pretty good scam. They say they specialize in your watch and brand so I send it in and I pay to sent it in because I could be ever get the pre-paid shipping to show. I send it in to have a simple part repairs and to be buffed and polished as it was one of their choices of services. Well they then come back to me a few days after they receive it and say the part I need has been discontinued but now I have to pay triple of what I paid to ship it to them, to get my watch back! It's kind of brilliant of a scam. You have people send in their watches, say you can't fix them and charge an outrage shipping charge to get it back. It's a $700 watch so of course I'm going to pay $30 to ship it back. And the service that I wanted to begin with, which was a polish and a buff, they did not do! Why? Is that machine discontinued as well? What I find upsetting is that I can buy this watch on Amazon and even walmart.com (which I'm not happy about by the way) and yet they say the part is discontinued? But they are still making the watch... anyway I would suggest staying away.