This Is the No. 1 Secret to Cheap Travel That Your Travel Agent Won’t Tell You

9. They sometimes ask you to pay before you really have to

The agent might be trying to meet a quota. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images

According to Travel Weekly, some travel agents ask customers to pay as soon as possible, often by telling something along the lines of the airline is withdrawing the airfare, so you need to ante up now. This does occasionally happen, but chances are that your travel agent hasn’t met his or her sales quota for the month and needs your money to make the goal. “All my big bookings are generally due the month I’m on holiday, just so that my commission pay doesn’t drop whilst I’m away. Don’t fall for it,” said a travel agent to Travel Weekly.

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