priceline.com offers discount to long lost twins

Often when paying a fraction of the price of a traditionally booked room it's easy to 'blame' it that you received a 'priceline room', but these rooms existed (and filled with other guests) long before the discount booking services existed, and in reality it's often the case that the desk clerk just assigned you a room at random, with no 'ill will' intended. We see comments from users who are disappointed because they received 'a room next to the elevator' while others are disapointed with 'a room furthest from the elevator'. To further this discussion, everyone also has a different opinion as to what is a 'good room'. You can read multiple reviews of the same hotel and they can range from 'loved it' to 'never again', proving that this is an industry wide issue. Add to this that not every room in a hotel is created equal (some face a freeway, others are next to an elevator, others on a high floor have a great view, while those on a low floor may have no view, etc), so it's oftten difficult, although necessary, to classify an entire hotel as a whole. The root of the problem is that star ratings are subjective and there is no consistency within the hotel industry, which leaves a LOT of room for interpretation, and therefore each company and hotel guest can have a different opinion of what rating a hotel deserves. Star Quality Issues: these can be legitimate, but only sometimes to the fault of priceline.

In my opinion there are two main complaints:

Priceline.com offers discount to long lost twins