Hotflightdeals

They offered me a rate and then said economy not available but they would still charge my card and keep me on stand by

Stay away if you don't want to loose you money, time and nerves (and leak your personal information to scammers hands).
First they said the flight I booked online is not existed anymore and they can offer one which is 2 times more expensive. When I said I'm going to buy tickets straight from the avia company, he started to offend me saying "I have all your personal information and credit card numbers".
After 20 days he initiated a charge of $1500 from Spirit Airlines, which was succesfully declined but I had to block and wait for a new card anyway.

I made reservations to the Dominican Repúblic their advertise prices of 300 dollars turned into 600 hundred, but thats not the worst, after 3 weeks i decided to check with Delta my confirmation and to my surprise, Delta informs me that my reservations were canceled and that all i could receive was credit for i purchase a non refundable ticket. I Email Shelby Jonhson for she sold me the tickets, but she ould not answer my emails, i called her but they ould not put her on the phone. I was forced to buy a plain ticket from Delta for 973 dollars for i have to attend to my wedding on December 23. The lack of respect, the lack of humanity and the blame game they played is shocking, the had the nerves to ask me to pay more money to buy another ticket through them, no apology, no we are sorry, they just blamed Delta for cancelling a flight that i did not ask to be cancelled. I will make people aware that Hot flights deal is a scam

Guys please do your self a favor,if you are here looking for hotflightdeals review...let me tell you this company is cheating to steal your hard earned money they will get you the ticket first they will trap you and then take advantage of you to do a robbery and sell you ticket at a very high price...these kind of companies needs to be prosecuted

I bought cheap tickets on 05/21/2023 that they offered on their website. On the same day they said that these tickets are not available for this price and offered much more expensive one.

Recent Discovery: This company previously flew under the name "Best Air Fares." THAT name has a F on BBB. And it has a one star rating on its Trustpilot page. It looks like they stopped using the name a year ago. They are attempting to move forward under a new name, but their game is the same.

Here's the rest of the story:

I spoke with a CSA named Damien who was friendly enough when explaining that they couldn't book the flight through American Airlines because the cheap flight I wanted was full. It didn't occur to me that it was a scam. He offered a ticket through Frontier that was more, but only a hundred or so. So I went with it as the only option available.

During our two phone calls, he spoke quickly and I had difficulty following what he was saying. During the second call, he explained the charges would be split in two. But I said okay. He also stated that I might have to approve the second fee as banks sometimes decline those charges.

This struck me as odd, but I said yes, thinking that this is all related to the cost of the ticket. So I agree to it. A little later, I got the itinerary, went to Frontier's site, and note that the the cost of the ticket was significantly less than what he quoted to me. I also noted that he'd added his email, not mine--which he had--to the account.

I contacted Frontier who told me that I had been charged everything they were going to charge me. Which means that the other 114.00 was coming from Hot Flight Deals. My best guess is that this is their newest effort to make a profit. If they hadn't gotten greedy--had only charged, say 5%, I might not have blinked.

I've booked flights, rented cars, and motel rooms through other services a few times. And never been subjected to an extra fee--at least not one large enough to get my attention. There is NO reference to this extra fee anywhere on their site.

I just found a reference to extra charges in their terms and conditions, but it's vague. "You may be charged additional sums by HotFlightDeals.com to offset increased fees, fuel surcharges, taxes, and fluctuations in foreign exchange markets or any combination thereof."

None of this applies to my situation. There is nothing in that which would have anything to do with my purchasing a ticket for a domestic flight online.

Final Note of Warning: Please note that many of the positive reviews are suspicious. If you'll check them, you'll note that this is the only review that most of them have written under this name. And many of the "American/English sounding" names are oddly spelled. If you will check their FB page and elsewhere, you'll see the complaints are many.