Hall St, Cancelon and ChangeYourFlight offer you the chance to recoup your costs and give deal-seekers a place to find bargain.
Whether it’s due to an illness or a similar unexpected event, travellers sometimes have to cancel trips on short notice – a truth that can be financially painful if the flight, hotel room or vacation rental is non-refundable.
Every year, travellers worldwide throw away about $10 billion in pre-paid hotel bookings, and $7 billion in unused flights. Thankfully, in the past 12 months, three secondary market websites – similar to Craigslist, eBay and StubHub -- have debuted services that take some of the risk out of purchasing.
Read full story at: http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20121015-new-sites-let-you-sell-unused-trips