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| Subject: | Re: UKNM: Lastminute.com...website or webhype? |
| From: | Quentin Langley |
| Date: | Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:42:30 GMT |
The only time I tried to use Lastminute.com 19
attempts to add something to my shopping basket
failed. But it was not entirely wasted. I walked
(yes, WALKED!) into town and found a travel agent with
a "beat any price" guarantee, quoted them the
lastminute.com price, and they beat it.
--- Roger Randolph <surreylad
hotbot [dot] com> wrote:> Happy New Year UKNM!
>
> As a Brit exile in Yankland, I thought I'd make the
> most of my 2 week millennium visit to the UK. I
> heard a radio ad urging me to "do something
> lastminute.com". I'd already head about how the UK
> web industry had been wowed by the Lastminute.com
> phenomena but I have to say I was seriously
> underwhelmed.
>
> Maybe I'd been misled, but I thought the site was
> supposed to have loads of choice and fantastic
> deals(??) Once the thing actually downloaded, there
> were a few mundane hotel offers at none-to-enticing
> rates, and some 'once in a lifetime events' and the
> kinda prices it'd take a lifetime to afford.
>
> Anyway I had a great New Year's Eve in London, so it
> didn't matter too much in the end. But is that site
> really the standard bearer of New Media in the
> UK???? my New Year's message is a quote from a group
> with a name that describes what I will probably be
> after dissing Lastminute.com on this list....Don't
> believe the hype.
>
> Roger (and out)
> BAM Marketing, Chicago
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