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Priceline.com, an online travel agency offered a name your own price option. However, by 2005, Priceline began to de-emphasize this system, [10] and added published price options on its websites. [9] A 2014 academic study showed that posted prices can guarantee higher profitability to service providers than the name-your-own-price mechanism. [11]
Priceline also sells discounted cruises, as well as tours and attractions. In 2002, Priceline licensed its Name Your Own Price travel system to eBay. [9] In November 2007, Priceline “permanently” eliminated all booking fees on published airfares. In April 2014, Priceline.com Incorporated changed its name to "The Priceline Group Inc."
In 1996, Jay S. Walker founded the company in Stamford, Connecticut, which launched Priceline.com, an online travel site, that used a Name Your Own Price bidding model. [4] In 1999, the company became a public company via an initial public offering, making Walker, who owned a 35% stake in the company, a multi-billionaire. [5] [4]
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Walker is also curator of TEDMED since 2011, and a founder of Priceline.com (now known as Booking Holdings) and Synapse Group, Inc. In 2000, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion. [1] By October 2000, his estimated worth was down to $333 million. [2] As of 2013, he is not on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires. [3]
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