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Economic theory[edit]

There has to be more of an economic theory behind the Name Your Own Price system, at the very least as a kind of bidding. It seems to me a rather important innovation in the evolution of the Price system. 71.246.25.169 21:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that sort of discussion (with some sources) belongs more at the Name Your Own Price article than here. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Call for backup[edit]

I've heard Lisa Loeb and Ben Folds backed Shat up. Were they on the same ads, or N? T.J. Hooker 05:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Priceline.gif[edit]

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booking.com[edit]

I read that "In July 2005 Priceline.com acquired booking.com, which is No.1 in Europe on online booking" but I only have the source in Swedish and I can't rate it's credibility. If anyone can confirm and include this info, it might be good. A source in English with some of this info is: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070301/pcln10-k.html --DavidGGG 19:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Priceline is the Brainchild?[edit]

Sounds a bit pompous to say this is a "brainchild". That certainly implies a sense that Priceline is somehow the next best thing since electricity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.110.102 (talk) 23:31, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does Priceline still accept money losing bids?[edit]

From SmartMoney 1999: "Priceline takes a bid from a consumer and matches it against the inventory offered by any of the 18 airlines with which it does business. (Airline tickets account for the bulk of priceline's total volume.) Often, there is no match. Last year, only about 7% of the guaranteed offers from consumers actually resulted in a sale -- usually because consumers bid way too low. When there is a match, priceline gets to keep the difference between the bid and the offer as profit. Fair enough, but priceline is accepting bids on many tickets where the company is actually losing money. "Priceline.com has chosen to sell a substantial number of tickets below its cost in order to increase airline and adaptive marketing revenues, build a record of successful transactions and enhance the priceline.com brand," according to the company's prospectus. In fact, it's hard to tell just how many tickets priceline is selling below cost, or at how much of a loss. What happens to that 7% sell-through when the company tries to actually make money on the tickets it sells?"

Can Priceline.com Ever Make Money? - Investing - Stocks - SmartMoney.com http://www.smartmoney.com/investing/stocks/can-pricelinecom-ever-make-money-6969/#ixzz1IHJ4Y5h4

Fxm12 (talk) 13:34, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism[edit]

I deleted a great deal of the content in the 'Criticisms' section for lacking encyclopedic quality. It was highly opinionated and speculative, lacking citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.142.168.140 (talk) 16:10, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing, COI editing[edit]

Leslie Cafferty, the Vice President of Corporate Communications & Public Relations at Priceline.com has admitted to using Wiki-PR, saying "we are using them to help us get all of our brands a presence because I don’t have the resources internally to otherwise manage." Paid editors on this and related articles should familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which strongly discourages them from direct article editing. This article should be closely watched in the future for edits from accounts such as User:Leeuwenvan, who has repeatedly tried to insert copyright violations. Gobōnobō ⁺ ^c 23:04, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned up the "Acquisitions" section. Each item is now just a report of the acquisition with a citation to a press report. I'm not seeing much hype that needs to be removed right now. (The article about Priceline's founder, Jay_S._Walker, though, could use some attention.) John Nagle (talk) 18:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"all of our brands a presence" .. are there other companies involved? -- Green Cardamom (talk) 19:04, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"This is not accurate. Priceline.com did not actually ever use their services. They just had conversations with the agency. Ksoward1 (talk) 17:47, 20 August 2014 (UTC)ksoward1[reply]

CEO clarity[edit]

Suggested Introduction: There are a couple things I've noticed about the page that should be updated to ensure accuracy. First and foremost, the CEO of priceline.com is Chris Soder. Of note, Darren Huston is the CEO for the Priceline Group, which includes priceline.com, Booking.com, KAYAK, Agoda and Open Table. Below are some links that support this suggested change. Please let me know any questions. I’m looking forward to joining the conversation. Thanks!

• Bloomberg.com: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/PCLN:US/profile • Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/profile/christopher-soder/ • Businessweek.com: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=2943968&ticker=PCLN — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ksoward1 (talk • contribs) 14:23, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Name Your Own Price Discontinued[edit]

"Priceline officially ended its Name Your Own Price deals for flight bookings in 2016, rental cars in 2018 and hotels in 2020" per references in this article. Hence paragraphs under the History heading suggesting it is still active are incorrect. 76.88.21.177 (talk) 00:17, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]