[nostrebored]

It’s because booking purchases the rooms wholesale, and typically well in advance of the stay dates. They can offer you a lower price because hotels use them to make their business more predictable.

[gunnihinn]

I work at Booking. We do not do this and never have. Other OTAs do, like Expedia. It’s the merchant vs. agent model.

[nostrebored]

Oops, sorry!

[jhugo]

I hear this a lot, but do you have a source? They should have got absolutely wrecked at the start of the pandemic if they were doing this.