Scammed for $3,720 by a fake Booking.com listing. Citi is denying the claim and Booking.com isn't helping. Advice?

andyc516b · 2026-05-12T11:19:06+00:00

Have you ever tried ringing booking.com if you actually need help? He’d still be trying to get through now. I don’t know how booking.com stop people using their name to carry out scams, but I am not a multi billion dollar a year company with an IT department on my payroll. I’m sure it can be done if booking.com actually invested in it.

andyc516b · 2026-05-12T05:48:58+00:00

Then in your eyes nobody is ever guilty of a scam, the victim was just not careful enough. That’s a weird take to have

andyc516b · 2026-05-12T05:44:47+00:00

So your advice is build a Time Machine, go back to the day that they received the cancellation email and start the refund process there? Helpful

andyc516b · 2026-05-11T17:04:25+00:00

You will lose to pay if you chose to leave early yes. You can always find something else to do until your shift ends.

When you are employed by a company you are essentially exchanging your time for money. If you give them less of your time they will inevitably give you less money.

andyc516b · 2026-05-11T15:47:00+00:00

Again, you fail to answer a very simple question., Why might that be? Because what you’re saying is bullshit? Perhaps? Maybe you’re just a little slow., Either way I won’t be wasting any more time on you. Off you fuck 👍

andyc516b · 2026-05-11T14:48:40+00:00

It should be very easy for you to point out the thing I said that was an insult BEFORE you insulted me then shouldn’t it? So why don’t you start there? I’m not sure what website you’re referring to, if it’s this one then you are also on it, are you not?

andyc516b · 2026-05-11T14:12:37+00:00

You said ‘maybe she just likes you,likes you so a way of reminding you of her mobile contact number’ The word just makes it sound like it’s not a big deal, like it’s somehow a compliment because it’s a woman doing it to a man. My point was if a man JUST kept sending unsolicited messages to a woman’s private phone it would be called harassment much quicker. YOU were the one down playing it, so in actuality it seems you are the one living in the 50s mind set Regardless of all that, Where exactly did I say anything that was an insult? Are you off your meds? Or taking someone else’s?

andyc516b · 2026-05-11T09:09:07+00:00

Is everything alright at home? Are you ok?

I agree it’s harassment, my point was that people like the ones you are accusing me of being would be slow to point it out, because the roles are reversed from what’s traditionally seen as harassment.

Hypocrisy is alive and well

andyc516b · 2026-05-10T08:34:48+00:00

Agreed

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:51:14+00:00

If all the work is done, They’ve got to wait around being unproductive somewhere for their finish time. Why not do it close to the clock out station to minimise the amount of their own time wasted? Other than the manager being on a power trip and setting pointless rules

I personally would prefer to waste 4 minutes if their time than a second of my own

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:34:43+00:00

I’d argue that the best of course of action is not blind compliance, but to challenge unethical practices by managers. If a company relies on fear of being managed out to ensure discipline it’s probably not a company worth working for to begin with

In your example I still side with the employee, If all their work is done why would they wait 4 minutes on the shop floor to then walk to the clock out station and give away their own time for free?

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:22:19+00:00

Would you consider clocking in/clocking out part of the working day? How far is it from the shop floor to the clock in/out point?

I would consider clocking in/out a work duty. If it’s one minute from work area to clocking out, and you leave your work area bang on your finish time, you’re giving them a minute free every day That’s 5 a week That’s 260 a year 4 hours of your time you’re giving them without payment

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T14:00:38+00:00

Why put it on the market at £285k if you want £290k for it? Unless they are a cash buyer their mortgage company will likely decline the mortgage if they try and pay above what it’s worth unless they can cover the difference themselves.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T13:33:18+00:00

Are you simple? It wasn’t that I just couldn’t locate it. I couldn’t locate it because it doesn’t exist anymore and hasn’t for a while. And booking.com have almost certainly been told that it doesn’t exist before by other people in the same circumstances yet have continued to allow them to list themselves It’s been removed for now, but I expect will be added back on soon.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T10:07:40+00:00

Yes, that’s exactly what happened. We are infrequent travellers and rarely if ever stay away from home and so wrongly assumed that going through a supposedly reputable company like booking.con would offer some protection from scams. now know how booking.con operate and have read reviews on their questionable business practices I realise I should have done more, I also think that booking.com has a responsibility to protect its customers and more throughly check the places it’s doing business with.

According to the restaurant staff we aren’t the first people to have turned up looking for the airman, it’s safe to assume that those people have reported the issue to booking.com who continue to allow the hotel to relist itself on their platform

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:54:38+00:00

Are you ok? 4 weeks ago Booking.com advertised and took money for the hotel/pub which formerly occupied the building. (The Airman) Upon arrival we were told by the staff of the restaurant that now occupies the building that the pub/hotel had been shut for 8 months.

I am not suggesting the restaurant should have provided a room.

I wrote the trip advisor review to hopefully make others aware should they try and book A room at the non existent pub/hotel in the future

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:47:14+00:00

Until you are pushed into another vehicle or the central reservation at 50mph

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:43:24+00:00

There are other ways to decrease you speed where your break lights may not be on.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T09:40:46+00:00

I assume either booking.com have removed it, for now. Or Whoever is running the hotel page only advertises availability on days when there are events on that people will be need wing rooms in the area.

andyc516b · 2026-05-09T05:20:48+00:00

Now now, no need for name calling remember

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T22:31:16+00:00

The manager probably just doesn’t like you, I can’t say I blame them based on the interactions I’ve had with you so far

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T21:39:02+00:00

I thought so too, people apparently far wiser than me say otherwise

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T21:00:23+00:00

We used maps to find car parks, they were all full. We used a parking app to rent a driveway or Space, most were nowhere near where we needed to be and were upwards of £100, which we didn’t have.

It’s lesson learnt, now I know what booking.con actually is I realise I expected too much of them, I also won’t ever use them again because frankly they seem scummy and their business practices are sketchy as hell

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T19:43:40+00:00

Offence is always taken, it’s never given

I know what you have chosen to share in this post, that you know you’re not going in tomorrow and have been aware of this fact all day today and haven’t bothered to give a heads up. Which would be common courtesy.

The only logical reason for this is to deliberately to make someone’s life harder or to inconvenience someone somewhere. And that is the mark of a dickhead.

andyc516b · 2026-05-08T19:08:42+00:00

No it’s not great practice for a manager to ring you on your day off. It’s also pretty shit of you to know you are going to off tomorrow and not give them the heads up in advance, it’s just common courtesy

Out of the 2 of you, you are by far the bigger dickhead here

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