I am currently on hold with Expedia as I'm typing this. Let me give you a rundown of my experience:
I booked a return trip to Dublin, Ireland around late May in 2023. Due to personal circumstances, I had to cancel. Their policy stated a $400 cancellation fee but the flight price was refundable. I contacted the company regarding this and the customer service person seemed helpful. Their suggestion was that I wait 7-10 business days for the refund to come through.
Fast forward two weeks and - curiously - I checked my bank account [I'm not a frequent online banking user] and the money was not credited to my account. I called the customer service line a second time after those couple weeks and asked what had happened. They informed me that the previous customer service representative had made an error and that they would sort it out. Please wait another 5-7 business days. Okay, fine.
The third time they claimed they had sent it, but the bank was holding out on me. Please wait 5-7 business days. This is starting to sound rather suspect.
More days down the line, the next customer service drone tells me that the previous two drones didn't file the e-paperwork properly, and that they'd really done it properly this time. 5-7 business days, you know the drill by now. This goes on a good five times in total until we get a change in the narrative in late July.
31st July: the customer service drone beyond that issued me with a gracious and courteous "Sorry for the inconvenience of denying you your own refund for two months" which was kinda rich of them to say. They let me know that they'd forward the issue to the customer escalations department and that they'd contact me within 72 hours to fix it. Eight days later no call had been made.
This time around I've been quite curt and belligerent with them, their escalations department turned out to sound surprisingly similar to their regular department and they sombrely informed me that all of the drones before them had, in fact, not processed the refund. Not that they hadn't done it properly, but simply that they hadn't done it at all.
I just got off the phone to the escalations department supervisor, who just filled me with the latest batch of "we're totally gonna refund you this time" so here's hoping they actually give me my money back. Despite his suggestion of compensating me with offers, travel credits etc., all I want is my money back.
If I could give this service zero stars, I would. Please God, let me never have to deal with Expedia ever again. I would rather contract the bubonic plague than go through that again.
If you've read all of this, I thoroughly suggest you go to a dictionary and read the definition of the word "expedite" and realise the cruel poetry in this company's name. read more