Posted on 08/29/2017 3:55:37 PM PDT by bgill
Saturday, a KXAN crew booked a room at the Best Western Plus in Robstown, a small town 20 miles west of Corpus Christi. An internet search showed room rates for a two queen bed priced between $120 and $149 a night. But, when it came time to book the room at the hotel’s counter, that price nearly tripled.
“What’s the total going to be?” reporter Wes Rapaport asked the hotel clerk. “$321.89,” the clerk responded.
A few minutes of questioning ensued about why the price nearly tripled. In a video recorded conversation, the clerk admits the $289 room rates are not what the hotel normally charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
Robstown Enterprises, Inc Phone: (361) 767-3900 Name: Samir Patel Job Title: Principal https://www.manta.com/c/mtbwq4f/robstown-enterprises-inc
I paid triple the normal rate for a room in Redmond, OR last week to watch the eclipse...AND had to take a three-night minimum. Can I go after those price gougers, too?
I bet the last name was Patel.
“You get three guesses on the owners and the first two don’t count.”
Elephant Riders of the Ganges? Isn’t this “diversity $hit” great?
I did not even finish reading your post. I swear on the King James Bible.
Patel and hotel and Best Western give me the creeps.
“Supply and demand sport. That’s how the free market works despite your emotions. And as for Indian owned hotels, I’ve always had a great experience. Very hard working and responsive. Immediate attention of an owner on-site in my experience.
And did this news crew swear off selling advertising from selling the story?
Walter Williams article on price gouging (just food for thought).
Before PC took over the country they criticized people named Patel in”Glengarry Glen Ross.”
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Ok, so the people who don’t want to pay $300 can keep going another hour down the road. The alternative is the price is $125, but there are no vacancies, and you STILL have to drive another hour down the road.
The Patel family owns probably 50% of the motels in the southern US.
You have a hotel room you could sell for 100 bucks. Something that YOU didn’t make happen makes everyone in town want to rent that room from you. You could sell it for 300 bucks easily.
I want to hear a non-communist collectivist argument that you should rent it to whoever needs it the most, and should not maximize the profit. Maybe this hotel owner knows that grime and mud about to be tracked in. He knows his linens and towels are about to be destroyed. He knows the guest laundry will get a hammering as guests put flood dirty possessions in the washer. He knows supplies will be hard to come by and he may have to drive a few hundred miles to restock. And YOU come along and just want him to eat all that because “it isn’t FAIR!!!” LOL /s
So he adjusts his price to deal with HIS costs.
For bonus points, what about some news crew scavengers taking up a room that some poor displaced flood victim might have needed.
“To each according to his needs”, Now where did I hear that?
I prefer the Indian gas station owners to the Muslim ones. Talk about shady.
Read the article. The advertised price wasn’t what they were charged.
Greedy, lazy news crews should book their rooms 2 hours north and drive back and forth. Otherwise, they are occupying local rooms that should go to hard luck displaced locals!!!! There, let’s see the news crews defend their selfish hoarding ways....
That's not unique to this hurricane situation. The prices that come up on a search (google, Travelocity, etc) are never "available" when you try to book.
Last week I searched for a room in Flagstaff AZ. Search showed rooms at $89....the lowest actual was $128
+1
No, there is only a law against price gouging during a catastrophe (in Texas there is a law against it).
You can’t find any rooms in Flag this time of year under $100..tourist season
Bingo.
Odd...I’m always able to get a room at the posted price.
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