Stop triggering death flags, Kogasa.

Reader-added tags include "Driving up the price", "Reservation sites are often scams", and "Trivago".

Moonspeaker said:

Reader-added tags include "Induced expense", "Reservation sites are often scams", and "Trivago".

The same hotel being Hotel Moscow in the Chungking Mansions?

If so, he should be expecting that...

"Shrewd"? More like fraudulent.

Had an Amazon seller try to pull the same thing.

I remember reading about some dodgy hotels in the US were doing this in the leadup to the solar eclipse in 2017. Cancelling older, cheaper bookings that had been made before they were aware of how much people were paying for last-minute bookings.