[Avodah] skiplagged.com

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 09:15:07AM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote:
> > skiplagged you are lying about your destination to get cheaper tickets
> 
> There is a precedent and recommended practice of lying about your
> destination to a non-Jew.

But... for safety. You would have to show it's allowed when you aren't
acting out of fear and in addition are getting them to agree to making
less money than they would have had you been honest.

It would be like saying that it's okay to lie about how great shape your
car is in to a prosepctive buyer when selling it by citing "kallah na'ah
vachasudah" as "recedent and accepted practice".

I don't see how this is relevent to nidon didan.

>> They have sued skiplagged.com

> That's not a real proof... It may be a great example of yelling after
> Yi'ush.

So? So it's proof of yei'ush. Yei'ush doesn't make geneivas mamon any
less geneivah, never mind geneivas da'as.

>> Chilul Hashem

> If the amount of easily identifiable Yidden skiplagging is disproportionate
> to their % of fliers, then it may be an issue.

> Im Ikesh Titpatol comes to mind.

This argument I hear, since the airlines are perfectly willing to sell
more seats than they have.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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