Lastminute running a practised scam
It seems this company is practising a click through Bait and switch scam. I got a price on Cheapflights.com quoted by lastminute including a check-in bag but when I paid for the transaction, the message I got was that it may take 3 days to confirm the booking which put me on alert as this was not something i have seen before. Then when they confirmed the booking they stated that it was excluding check-in baggage for which there was an extra fee which increased the total by 50%. I immediately tried to get through to them which is impossible as they do NOT publish a customer care number and their webchat agent a Mariglen just kept saying you confirmed the booking and if you have proof that this included baggage they would look into it. I stated that they will have the whole log recorded from when i came through to the booking and on what terms and under GDPR I requested that. She did not reply to that even when asked twice. As a customer who records the web history ? I have not needed to but maybe it is something I have to look into in future. I asked her for a copy of the webchat transcript which she said would be available at the end. It was not which is clearly another scam they pull to make sure you never have a record of the conversation. I then immediately notified my Credit card company of this as an attempted fraud; they told me that the billling was not even done by the company i expected but another one and the billing company had even retained my card details to sign me up for a subscription for a service I had NOT consented to. The credit card agent stated that as this was a suspected fraud, they would cancel the card and cancel the subscription and investigate the transaction. Hopefully this then results in a full refund which can apparently take nearly a month. In the meantime, I went back into the same travel search engine to see if that route still has has seats and pricing and surprise surprise lastminute is not shown but the price I paid did include baggage directly from the airline itself. So it is clear that Lastminute has not done this for the first time.
1 month ago
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