Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!johnl From: johnl@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: Budget plays Bait-and-switch - (nf) Message-ID: <189@haddock.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 02:36:13 EDT Article-I.D.: haddock.189 Posted: Thu Jun 21 02:36:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:07:45 EDT Lines: 17 #R:rayssd:-47000:haddock:29800002:000:617 haddock!johnl Jun 13 21:35:00 1984 >On another tangent, someone made the comment about their travel agency >not willing to use another rental agency--I am sure they get kick backs. >How else do they stay in business? By the way, agencies will also >push one airline over another. They don't get kickbacks, they get commissions which are sort of the same thing, only perfectly legal, and are for most travel agencies their main or only source of income. As far as car places go, I always give them my Number 1, Wizard, Green Light, or whatever number when I reserve, and they always seem to treat me decently, even in Newark. John Levine, ima!johnl