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Something doesn’t add up for me. How can a Flock representative call the hotel chain and cancel a room not reserved in their block?
Whether he made the reservation on his own or not, if it was made as part of the block of rooms for the conference, that’s cancellable by the company.
Now, if he made a reservation like any other random person staying at the same hotel during that time.. wtf?
The notion of the organizer of a conference with a big block of rooms accidentally or on-purpose social-engineering a hotel clerk to cancel an unrelated person's room doesn't surprise me at all.