This is the content of the ad1.php file. Leave it blank or include your ad.

Hotels.com Repeat? Roomvalues.com becomes Getaroom.com

Dave Litman and Bob Diener, expired non-competes in hand, have been toying around for a few months with a new site – the somewhat awkwardly named roomvalues.com. For those of you who have only known Hotels.com as a part of Expedia (or IAC), Dave and Bob were the original founders of Hotels.com.
Last week, [...]

The article starts below...

Written by Travel News on July 7th, 2009 with no comments.
Read more articles on Tips and Tricks.

This is the content of the ad2.php file. Leave it blank or include your ad.

Dave Litman and Bob Diener, expired non-competes in hand, have been toying around for a few months with a new site – the somewhat awkwardly named roomvalues.com. For those of you who have only known Hotels.com as a part of Expedia (or IAC), Dave and Bob were the original founders of Hotels.com.

Last week, according to DN Journal (a website which tracks the buying and selling of domains) www.getaroom.com was sold at sedo.com for $30,000.

Just as rapidly, roomvalues.com has been re-branded getaroom.com.

Given current softness in the market (with no improvement in sight) and the huge upswing in consumer “deal searching” the timing could not be better for a major launch.

As an added twist, roomvalues.com is pushing consumers to call their call center for even lower prices than those listed on their website. Talk about full circle from the days when websites buried their 800 numbers in an effort to drive to web.

Comically, “Get a Room” was lodging.com’s tag line. (Lodging.com was purchased by Cendant and has now been folded into Orbitz….)

Tags: , , , , ,

Related posts

Written by Travel News on July 7th, 2009 with no comments.
Read more articles on Tips and Tricks.

This is the content of the ad3.php file. Leave it blank or include your ad.

Related articles

No comments

There are still no comments on this article.

Leave your comment...

If you want to leave your comment on this article, simply fill out the next form:




You can use these XHTML tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> .

This is the content of the ad4.php file. Leave it blank or include your ad.