Expedia promised a refund last October, but where is it?

Q: I booked a KLM flight as a result of Expedia past yr. KLM canceled the flight due to the fact of COVID in October. Expedia told me to wait around 12 months for a refund.

When no refund arrived, I contacted Expedia. Expedia claims KLM refunded me, even although I paid Expedia. KLM statements they refunded Expedia, which then need to have refunded me.

Soon after some again and forth, Expedia advised me to get hold of my lender. I contacted Chase, my credit score card business, to dispute the charges, but it was also late. Expedia has stopped responding to my requests for a refund.

I have evidence of all communications. I want Expedia to refund me for the amount of money of the flight. I am out of options. Can you assist me get my $427 again?

A: You should really have gained a prompt refund. Section of Transportation regulations govern your ticket if you employed Expedia in the United States. The procedures involve the airline to challenge a refund inside 7 enterprise days if you paid out by credit score card, and 20 times if you paid out by dollars or examine.

I reviewed the paper path among you and the various get-togethers. What a tangled net. You might be correct, they are blaming each and every other. So, who is eventually responsible for your refund? Your on line journey company, Expedia.

It took your income and agreed to act as your agent in obtaining the flight. Right after KLM canceled your flight, Expedia really should have ensured that you had a lightning-fast refund. It should not have handed you off to KLM.

What about your credit history card? A Chase agent informed you that much too substantially time experienced handed for your demand-back ask for. Which is nonsense. Credit rating card firms can assistance their consumers if they want, but they opt for to lower off all requests just after 60 days. They declare that the Reasonable Credit rating Billing Act is not going to make it possible for them to dispute promises extra than two months aged. But the regulation won’t stop banks from dealing with older disputes.

A temporary, well mannered e-mail to Expedia might have completed the trick. I would have forwarded all of your correspondence alongside with a polite address letter to a single of the Expedia executive contacts who I record on my web site, elliott.org. If that failed to work, you could have attained out to KLM. I publish their govt contacts, way too.

I contacted Expedia. “My agents confirmed the refund has now been processed, and the buyer has been notified,” a agent advised me. “It seems like the delay was due to an agent mistake, so we have apologized to the shopper and additional a $100 voucher to the traveler’s Expedia account for the inconvenience.”

Christopher Elliott is the founder of Elliott Advocacy, a nonprofit shopper firm. Make contact with him at elliott.org/help or [email protected].