First of all thanks to all of you who have emailed me regarding my new online booking engine and online travel store. I hope you enjoy using them and you can shop with confidence as you know I am always there behind your bookings to help you out with any questions you may have.
That brings me to the reason of this blog entry - I urge you to watch where you are doing your online shopping for travel and any other items. Make sure you know it is a reputable supplier. I know many people purchase online but in the last 2 days I have been reading reports about consumers who have lost a lot of money buying online.
The first was purchasing tickets for Olympic events. Someone set up a company and professional looking website selling event tickets that they never had. Come the time to fulfill the orders they apologized that they were unable to secure the tickets and filed for bankruptcy closing their doors leaving many consumers out money and sitting with airline tickets to China, a hotel room and nothing but a TV to watch the events . In many cases this happened to family of Olympians competing in the events.
The second is a scam that is going around to purchase your international driver's licence for anywhere from $60 up to $200 online, when you should be buying it at CAA for only $15!
Just a reminder to be careful where you are doing any online shopping. If it is travel related and you don't see it on my site, give me a call or email and I will gladly help you out and make sure your bookings go through a secure and reputable tour operator. What I have available online is a small fraction of what I book for clients.
Cheers,
Carl
www.carlhenderson.ca
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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