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Nor should you. I was meaning to ask, though, when are your prices going to match everyone else's? I did some travelling around New Years, and found your prices were $580 whereas your competitor's (forget who) was $510. That pissed me off, as I really wanted to book through you guys. Your site is fantastic, but at the end of the day money talks.

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Yeah, I hear you. If you can tell me the specific flight, I can probably explain. At this point, our prices should match.

It was a WestJet flight from Vancouver to Calgary, leaving (I believe) Dec 30 and returning Jan 3. I bought the tickets on the 26th or 27th. Not sure of the flight number itself.

Some vendors don't include taxes and fees in their listed prices. Hipmunk does. That could be the discrepancy.

Nah, it wasn't. I remember them saying something about doing search through another agency so as to have access to all flights, but the flight in question wasn't even listed on hipmunk. It seems to be better now. Now I just have to convince people to use it. Speaking of which, if they can figure out how to let people buy on points that'd be fantastic. Not sure if the airlines have made that API available, but it would be great.

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