What Viator Is Doing Should Be A Crime!
1 star is way too generous. My experience with Viator as a supplier falls deep within negative territory. The star rating system should be more like:
-5 - 4 -3 -2 -1 - 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5
Viator would without question be -11. This is the WORST company I have ever dealt with for any reason. There is no rhyme or reason to anything. If you have an issue or a question, you'll NEVER get actual support. Nobody knows their job, they don't hardly know English, no single support department can handle all questions so they endlessly transfer you back and forth between the same "departments", if you request a supervisor they have to "schedule" a call, but when a supervisor does actually speak to you they don't know anything either.
Every single call I have made to "support" has been a complete waste of time. They don't let you change you email in your own account in spite of there being an "edit" button. You have to call, and when you do call they don't know how to do it and tell you that there is a "security process" to change email addresses, but that is a nightmare that just dead ends.
When you get a reservation, at the bottom there is a "print" link that goes to another page that says, "Sorry, invalid link" or something, so you can't get a printable version of a reservation. When a customer books a tour they cannot select a "time" in spite of the tour saying "Time of booking". It shows the date, but there is no actual time.
I hate Viator with a passion. Nobody that works for Viator has ever actually owned and operated a tour company, but they think they're "all that" and completely unanswerable because Google is in bed with them somehow, so they get pushed to the top of SERP, way above organic SERP results while your website built on hard work gets forced down, and a bunch of crooked, hyper-rich pasty faced evil weaklings rake in all the dough in their mafia-style protection racket as they make suppliers grovel and suffer.
And here is the big big secret... Viator only pays their suppliers once per month, instead of weekly or upon completion of the service. Hundreds of millions or maybe even billions of dollars builds up in their system as tour bookings come in. It is highly likely, can't say for sure, but highly likely that Viator, along with many other such "services", use this massive amount of supplier money to make short term or overnight loans to banks to facilitate their debt obligations, quietly earning them millions of dollars in fees and interest. They wouldn't tell you this, but it is a glaringly obvious potential to anyone who knows anything about banking and finance. Here is a breakdown of what these companies do with YOUR money...
"Companies, including non-bank financial institutions and corporations with excess cash, make money by lending to banks overnight—primarily through repo markets—by earning interest income on short-term, collateralized loans. They capitalize on high-volume, low-risk opportunities to turn idle cash into yield, with interest calculated on the spread between the cash loaned and the repurchase price of securities (like Treasury bonds)"
This is what they are probably doing, and it should be illegal. You're welcome.
1. Mai 2026
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