Smartbuy Flight Ticket Scam! They are hiking the prices!

[eatpepsi]

I recently wanted to plan a trip to srinigar with my family, we are 4 in total and since i have a massive amount of reward points on my HDFC infinia, i figured i will redeem some for the flight tickets ...
Lo be hold look at the price differences quoted on the smartbuy portal where i can use my reward points vs the actual website partner which is booking the flight ... Its a massive 20k rupees price difference, can some on help me understand this ????
Image 1 ; HDFC Smartbuy



Image 2: Cleartrip




Image 3 : Indigo Official Website

 

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Flight buisness is a scam buisness, use a vpn and you'll get a different price every time.

 

[Chaitanya-a]

Best (and cheapest) way to book flight tickets is Skyscanner. These airmiles and all are scam

 

[ARV]

I recently wanted to plan a trip to srinigar with my family, we are 4 in total and since i have a massive amount of reward points on my HDFC infinia, i figured i will redeem some for the flight tickets ...
Lo be hold look at the price differences quoted on the smartbuy portal where i can use my reward points vs the actual website partner which is booking the flight ... Its a massive 20k rupees price difference, can some on help me understand this ????
Image 1 ; HDFC Smartbuy
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Image 2: Cleartrip

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Image 3 : Indigo Official Website

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Bro, dates are different, in smartbuy its 9th May & 13th May but cleartrip its 8th May & 12th May. Of Course there will be difference based on various factors e.g no of people looking at the flight at the same time etc.

 

[drshenoy]

same issue in hotel rooms also, booking.com has half the rate compared to smartbuy

 

[eatpepsi]

Bro, dates are different, in smartbuy its 9th May & 13th May but cleartrip its 8th May & 12th May. Of Course there will be difference based on various factors e.g no of people looking at the flight at the same time etc.

no i checked with correct dates as well ..

 

[yolofino]

When people say they got "free flights" with credit card reward points, I laugh at them. Almost always you have to pay more when booking through points redemption platforms and also you have to accumulate the points for months to redeem those flights.

Nothing beats direct cashback (even if it's 2% cashback) in the next month itself in your credit card account. Amazon vouchers are fine too. But "reward" points? No, they are not reliable.

 

[TheMentalist]

When people say they got "free flights" with credit card reward points, I laugh at them. Almost always you have to pay more when booking through points redemption platforms and also you have to accumulate the points for months to redeem those flights.

Nothing beats direct cashback (even if it's 2% cashback) in the next month itself in your credit card account. Amazon vouchers are fine too. But "reward" points? No, they are not reliable.

Completely disagree.. my 1L purchase in December using Magnus will sponsor a round trip (Mum-Del) for my family of 5 by just paying 5k extra as taxes. CB card can only sponsor a round-trip cab ride to Navi Mumbai at best.

 

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Agreed. Reward points are just gimmick

Maybe but there's an art to get the most benifits out of the system, not everyone has figured that out or optimise it.

For example see this.

 

[purush]

How we using it, does make the difference

 

[sleepysurya]

no i checked with correct dates as well ..

Please cross check. I checked on smartbuy and indigo with same details and there was no difference (excluding convenience fee)

Smartbuy - total is 152k - I cropped total as was I lazy to black out contact details.


Indigo webiste

 

[BlueFlash]

Completely disagree.. my 1L purchase in December using Magnus will sponsor a round trip (Mum-Del) for my family of 5 by just paying 5k extra as taxes. CB card can only sponsor a round-trip cab ride to Navi Mumbai at best.

How is this possible bro ? A round trip Bom-Del costs somewhere like 8K, for 5 folks it's like 40K, leave the 5K extra and adding some buffer of another 5K, still makes it 30K reward, and this is on a 1L spend on magnus ? A freaking 30% reward ratio !!! Care to elaborate please

 

[gurubhai]

Lo be hold look at the price differences quoted on the smartbuy portal where i can use my reward points vs the actual website partner which is booking the flight ... Its a massive 20k rupees price difference, can some on help me understand this ????

Bro there is something with cleartrip.
Recently I booked an indigo flight for 6.5K from smartbuy using cleartrip.
I checked prices on ixigo, mmt and 1 more and price was same so I went with smartbuy...
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Now after 4-7 days I received an invoice email from indigo for that flight (this indigo generally sends everytime) and the price in the invoice was 5.6 or 5.7K only.
So something is fishy. I was thinking of asking here but was lazy xD xD
To whom i shall contact.. smartbuy people or cleartrip people.. why indigo sending me 5.7K invoice for a flight ticket I purchased for 6.5
.
Also if you getting 20K cheaper on cleartrip.. is it cheaper on mmt, ixigo and other platforms too?

 

[HimachaliJeeper404]

So are we suggesting to use the Skyscanner app only to book the cheaper tickets or do we have any other website which can offer cheap tickets.
Please guide if there's an existing thread going on the same topic .

 

[Bharath Ram]

Smartbuy prices are on par these days. No discrepancy. You can book directly from Smartbuy

 

[Hemang]

Ye

How is this possible bro ? A round trip Bom-Del costs somewhere like 8K, for 5 folks it's like 40K, leave the 5K extra and adding some buffer of another 5K, still makes it 30K reward, and this is on a 1L spend on magnus ? A freaking 30% reward ratio !!! Care to elaborate please

Ye 30% return ka raaz pata chala kya bhai ?