Google's positioning its own sales, reservations, booking, and ticketing services as intermediaries adds significantly to the cost of many services, including travel services.
They act as intermediaries with theater box offices, selling tickets via a phone call or mouse click so you can avoid spending a rainy Saturday morning waiting in line at a theater 15 miles from home.
Chrome has decided that consumers aren't yet ready to trust the online intermediaries for that kind of big-ticket item.
At a press conference he railed against "intermediaries" and "contracts unfavorable to Aeroflot" relating to foreign ticket sales and foreign financial operations.
At a press conference Okulov railed against "intermediaries" and "contracts unfavorable to Aeroflot" relating to foreign ticket sales and financial operations.
This exploits the fact that two tickets split at an intermediary station can be cheaper than buying one ticket all the way to your destination.
Just two hours before the ceremony was to begin, a 25-year-old scalper who identified himself only as Trent, received a call on his cell phone from an intermediary seeking 20 tickets for a corporate client.
Perhaps intermediaries cheated them.
And camels are plausible intermediaries.
"Beware of intermediaries!" they said.
