Holidays... Facebook group agents MLM?

[holidaynewbiekinda]

Haven't been on holiday in goodness knows how long. 14+ years. Never been as an adult.

Looking to book a holiday snf stumbled on a few Facebook groups whereby people sell unwanted holidays. Then came across some people posting saying they could arrange the holiday. They are very pushy and it seems their prices are higher.

Is this MLM or just independent travel agents? If the latter, am I paying thd commission or are thr prices just more? Almost double

Yes they are MLM's. Don't buy things off anyone on facebook as a general rule, it is a very dodgy lawless place at the best of times.

You can see a list of MLM travel companies here https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/travel-mlms to compare against.

You'll be paying their commission and commission to their uplines so really noway they could be cheaper than doing it yourself.

Don't buy a holiday from a Facebook group. Huge risk that none of them exist and its all scams

Thank you for the responses. I've searched the same holiday they're selling me and it's half the price so I'm confused. They're very very pushy. Repeated messages. I'll look at that list.

Thank you

I suppose you just need to block them if they're messaging you after you've said you're not interested.

I'd be surprised if small online 'agencies' which in reality will be a person and a laptop can compete on price with either package operators or DIY using booking.com/airbnb etc and booking the flight direct with the airline.

For the 'sale of unwanted holidays' you'd have to look carefully into the cost of name change fees, which are usually high to stop people snapping up bargains and flipping them for a profit, meaning it's unlikely that a genuine unwanted holiday will be a good buy unless the seller is virtually giving it away, in which case they'd probably have been better off cancelling or changing the date with the operator.

That's the Inteletravel (Inteletravel is the travel company front but the real money is made by recruiting TA's via PlanNet Marketing which is a pyramid scheme). It's caused a lot of misery for a lot of people who signed up and lost money as 'travel agents'. I wouldn't want to contribute to that by being a customer.

Thank you for the comments.

I suspect they're trying to recruit me in that case.

There are so many other ways to book a holiday. Don't touch anything on Facebook.

Thank you. I was thinking I may find a last minute deal from someone selling a holiday they couldn't go on but I suspect pp is right Re name changes and it gets complicated.