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Old 18th June 2009, 1:23
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#350 per month? where on earth did they pull THAT figure from? monthly based listings are a good idea - hostels.com is yearly if i recall correctly. personally id have thought you'd slash the price at the start... but what do i know?

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Old 18th June 2009, 1:40
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hmmmm.... greedy. they would want to be booking a much much higher percentage of my beds to warrant even a quarter of the remote sum. i call shenannigans on this one.
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£350 = $570 USD per month. $6,840 per year, about 8.5 times as expensive as Hostels.com.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone that tries it.
I doubt if anyone would like to try it... HB doesn't have 8.5 times more traffic than hostels.com so it would be a waste of money! I think they will fail as this premiere listing wouldn't generate as many bookings to make it profitable ever for hostels.
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I received a mail saying that the fee is only 250 pounds...
for Buenos Aires, but I thoigh it was annually....not monthly. Are they nuts?
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I can't imagine anyone thinking this is a good investment. Also, when are are the booking engines going to realize that not all hostels worldwide can afford such high fees. Shouldn't us little guys in Latin America get a better deal on stuff since we can only charge $10 +/- a night for a dorm bed?

Speaking of Booking engine API's. I'm going to hire a programmer to start writing .dll's to interface between our hostelpower PMS and the booking engines. If anyone is interested in doing this jointly, let me know. Or, if you already have some for Gomio, HB, etc., I'd love to know if I can get them.
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Looks like hostels are using the premium listings:
http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/england/london/
http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/spain/madrid/
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