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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.
Flock is a piece of shit, and they definitely overstepped at best, but this wasn’t impersonation. Impersonation is saying “hello I am grue I would like to cancel my reservation” while they said “hello I am Bobby with Flock and I’d like to cancel the reservation of grue.”
Should the hotel have gone through with the cancelation? No. But this doesn’t even constitute fraud.
Falsely claiming that they have standing to cancel the journalist's reservation is fraud.
It isn’t though. Fraud requires you (paraphrased) lie in order to deprive someone of money, property or rights. That isn't happening here. Journalist is getting a refund, there was no property loss, and staying at a hotel isn’t a right.
Again, they are pieces of shit, but the closest this could get to being illegal is harassment. And honestly if this is a one time thing I doubt it would even fall into that.
You’ve got more chance of going after the hotel for breach of contract but I honestly doubt this type of thing isn’t covered in their legalese.
Tortious interference would be the common law contract claim against flock but it would be hard to prove significant damages.
Fair enough, far cry from impersonation though.
This was a crime.
Also, the hotel reservations in question were for a Flock conference happening today through the 20th in Atlanta (which is where Flock's headquarters are). According to this article (which I also posted in its own thread), there will be a rally against Flock tomorrow evening downtown.
I'm not especially surprised that Jordan got extra 'fuck you' attention from Flock, considering he's the one that pointed out in a youtube video that Flock cameras are stupidly insecure.
Man, fuck those assholes. They don't want anyone with their shit together to be there.
Needs more JPEG. I know my eyes are going downhill as I age, but this is fugly. I just barely can read it.
Click the image to see. Bigger version
Thanks, but the problem was I was attempting to read the image posted here, not at the source. I hate when file hosts do that.
..that's a thumbnail though? I don't think OP manually added the image.