$100 cash back from Webjet when booking travel for $500 or more using PayPal.
Details of the offer:
yes, and their international fare always more expensive than other online travel agent.
I was looking for airfares to the USA recently, and compared Jetabroad, Expedia, Zuji and Webjet. Depending on the date none was consistently cheaper than the other. Sometimes Webjet had the best price, sometimes not.
As always, shop around.
But always has a massive booking fee :)
Webjet charge total of $50 booking fee (some BS $30 processing fee + $20 for another BS Price Guarantee fee). So I think Mod should update the title to show only $50 effective cash back.
Also, the price with Webjet is higher than booking directly with some airlines. I haven't tried it with all the airlines, but you can test out with V Australia, MEL-LAX, there will be extra charge of "V Australia Airline Levies - $15" which you won't be charged if you book directly on V Australia website.
So this so-call $100 cash back is actually only $35. Since this is still cheaper than booking directly with the Airlines so I won't give this Neg -vote but I won't give this +vote either. Don't forget that you have to fork out extra $100 to earn $35 and I don't know how long will it take Paypal to credit you.
I wasn't aware of Webjet's fees, but one must be aware that all travel search engines charge fees. For example, Zuji's price is always higher than going direct with the airline, but then you'd have to ask yourself how the web site could make money otherwise. At least Webjet is up front about its fees, rather than rolling them into the flight price.
Your example is also the worst case scenario (request a price guarantee, and also fly with V Australia). Most of the time customers will be $70 better off, assuming identical prices between sites, and assuming other sites don't charge invisible fees.
Having a higher price isn't a fee.
A higher price isn't a fee, but it can hide a fee.
For example, zuji.com.au claims No Booking Fees on their site. I compared an October 1/October 2 return flight from ADL-SIN with Singapore Air's web site.
Zuji: $1237.34
Singapore Air: $1218.17
Exact same flight, quite a different price. Does Zuji still have absolutely no booking fee, or is it already rolled into the price? Either way the customer still pays. At least Webjet is up front about it.
@Cluster: excellent comparison, but have u show the total cost? at the end the customer want to see which one has the cheaper airfare, isn't it?
i just did price beat with flight centre for flight from sydney to singapore at the end of march. sq website show the discounted price $820, zuji price was 780. I went to flight centre, got additional $20 off with their price beat policy. webjet price at that time was 830 + other fees, i don't have to mentioned the total cost.
I hate these search engines. What a shockingly large fee they charge.
Just let them do the searching, then book directly on the airlines website.
Notice how they don't seem to like the real budget airlines like Airasia. And they exclude Jetstar from this offer.
Another method of squeezing money from the less net-savvy folk.
AirAsia and other budget airlines pay no commissions to search engines/travel agencies. I recall reading a couple of years ago that Flight Center stopped recommending Singapore Air after it ceased paying commissions. Use travel agents and search engines with care.
The nice thing about search web sites is they are so quick and easy to use. In the time it takes Flight Center staff to produce one quote I can search all the major search engines and get dozens of quotes.
Doesn't Webjet charge some massive booking fee? I guess this would cover that.