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Mother-son pair cost hotels over ¥100 mil in no-shows

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Dumb and dumber

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Vince, do you refer to the designers of the Ikyu.com business model that made this hack possible?

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n some cases when a hotel forgets to notify the booking site of a cancellation, customers still receive points even in cases of a no-show.

Surprising how much of this happens in the hotel industry especially in Japan where the systems are outdated, information is not shared properly an industry is held to ransom by a few ancient systems..

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Take credit card details.... if no show, first night is charged.

Works in Europe pretty well.

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Good, more thank likely many of us tried to get reservations made but sold out and could not accommodate a room so more than likely ended up getting a higher cost room or change travel dates which is very inconvenient at times.

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This sounds like a civil matter (lawsuit), not a crime. Swearing is also a crime in some areas. Maybe we should enforce that too.

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Ulysses, et al:

The onus should be on the companies that do the booking and assigning points. They did not steal the points, they were given them - they were taking advantage of a loophole that the company left open. We've all had to cancel reservations before, this shouldn't be a crime. Civil matter (lawsuit by the company) at the most. This invites private companies with strong pulls of govt to entice prosecutors to arrest former customers.

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The onus should be on the companies that do the booking and assigning points. 

Wrong. The onus is on the thieves. Don't blame the victims.

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Tom young:

I respectfully disagree. Jeff Bezos of amazon, for example, is not a criminal, despite him also using a loophole in tax law to pay essentially 0 in taxes. By your definition, he is a thief too. I believe the onus is on the govts to eliminate loopholes in such a case. Its not fraud, its exploiting a legal loophole.

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Is it illegal to book a hotel? Is it illegal to cancel a booking? Is it illegal to acquire the points that's part of the booking?

We can have the same argument about eat-all-you-can and drink-all-you-can restaurants. What if I ate all of the food and drink all of the drinks? I abused the system, sure, but was it illegal?

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Thanks for the idea!

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If it wasn’t illegal, then why the need to use fake names.

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That's a lot of work just for some crummy points.

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I don't think they should be arrested, we need to stop always siding with the businesses. The business had a problem, they can fix it and suck up the costs.

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