I call it marketing, but it would be nice if there were a way to add an address to the filter with a single click.
If your username for gmail is user@gmail.com ...
Now if you want to use ebay with that address, use user+ebay@mail.com Now all mails will come in, pre-tagged for bins. They've done your work, for you.
Edit: its also good for finding out who's sharing addresses without your consent.
And besides, many sites that are necessary for doing business think luke+priceline@somewhere.com is an invalid email address. (And all of Priceline's competitors agree, and Kayak/Hipmunk are meta-search engines so don't solve the problem.)
That said, Priceline does allow you to unsubscribe from their marketing and only receive relevant emails, which is probably the ideal place to attack this problem.