Anyone who thinks that they are going to get a $2.00 hotel room needs their intelligence insulted.
Anyone who advertises a $2.00 hotel room deserves to lose their ar$e on the deal. Bait and switch is illegal and immoral. No matter the "advertised" price, the seller has the obligation to live up to their posting or suffer the consequences.
Maybe so, but from a business standpoint, Expedia will wish they'd absorbed the loss. Instead, they cost their company goodwill far in excess of the difference between the advertised and correct hotel rates.