Booking Price Hike

[onemore]

During my on line booking process this morning I had a problem with my credit card details, so opted out of the payment section to sort it out with the bank, which took all of 3 minutes, went back online to make the same flight booking and bang in those three minutes the price jumped 50 dollars.

So is there a way of getting the Qantas website to forget I was there making a booking?

Thanks for any input.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

There is a theory that clearing your cookies and trying again helps. I think that’s a bit tin foil hat brigade but you never know....

 

[Hvr]

Clean the cache (Ccleaner) or use a different browser.

However, there is always the possibility that the fare bucket you were looking at may have sold out.

 

[onemore]

I don't think the fare bucket had sold out as there was no sub note to it saying "5 or fewer seats available" or anything like that plus it is a domestic booking mid Saturday morning, but anyway no problems could have been that.
A few of my friends have told me about this happening to them whilst making bookings but that has been over a couple of hours while they tried to sort accommodation out to suit the flight, but 3 minutes, something smells and the smell ain't nice.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Try incongnito/Private mode on the browser.

 

[VPS]

and let us know how you got on

 

[onemore]

Luckily, very lucky in fact that I opted out of the booking at the payment section, and as such received an email from Qantas advising me that I had until midnight to pay for the flight at the old price which I did, I realise it is only 50 dollars but it is the principle of the thing.

More to follow.

 

[onemore]

There is a search engine called "DuckDuckGo" which I am told is the way to go that it doesn't store any searches made, or so I am told I will give it a try next time, there has to be something.

 

[RichardMEL]

Luckily, very lucky in fact that I opted out of the booking at the payment section, and as such received an email from Qantas advising me that I had until midnight to pay for the flight at the old price which I did, I realise it is only 50 dollars but it is the principle of the thing.

More to follow.

Yes, the PNR had been created and the inventory reserved at that point.

I was thinking that this might have been what was going on when you came back.. and it may have timed out after 10-15 minutes and returned, or as happened here, the booking was "held" for you to come back to.