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Interesting story, but what are we supposed to "learn" from it? Obviously we won't use this company for bookings, but what's the bigger takeaway?

Partners of kayak may be scammers? That's news to me, so that's useful to know.

American Express had good customer service? The fact that the author had to follow up to get a full refund indicates that it wasn't the most streamlined process ever.

Is there another lesson here?

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>Interesting story, but what are we supposed to "learn" from it? Obviously we won't use this company for bookings, but what's the bigger takeaway?

Why there has to be some "bigger takeaway"?

The title of the post itself says "Amoma.com is a scam". It doesn't say anything about teaches us larger things about life, the universe, and everything.

It's a personal story that explains why Amoma.com is a scam, and what happened to the author.

Not everything is some guidebook, or research paper, or philosophical study. It's a blog post.

I got a similar sinking feeling just a few days ago right after booking a flight through Kayak. It was a too-good-to-be-true rate on a flight from Boston to Barcelona with a company called Vayama. Vayama runs lots of little scams, like selling airline tickets before actually buying them from the airline, and cancelling the order if the flight fills up or they can't purchase them profitably. A quick web search shows hundreds (thousands?) of complaints against Vayama, but Kayak keeps pimping them.

Some people seem to say that using Vayama worked out for them, but with my trip 3 weeks away still I'm pretty on edge.

We're supposed to learn that Kayak is pants now, and they should feel bad.

You need a flight booking number to know if you actually have a ticket booked. If you've that, you're fine, if not, you have more planning to do.

Yeah, I don't think the article had a thesis at all. It was more of a narrative of events he'd experienced.

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