27/07/2025
Samina Ahmed admits she’s obsessed with travel. The 46-year-old single mother, who recently left her job as an IT engineer in Leeds, England, said she’s taken her toddler on “more holidays than most people have in a lifetime.”
What keeps Ahmed both on the road and in the black? She books almost every trip on SpareFare.
Founded in 2016, this eBay-like marketplace pairs unfortunate travelers looking to sell nonrefundable trips, flights and hotel nights they can’t use to bargain hunters like Ahmed who take over the reservation. For one vacation, that meant paying around $1,200 for an all-inclusive trip to Thailand that originally cost around $4,700.
SpareFare’s most popular listings are package holidays. The biggest sale so far? A $46,000 two-week trip for two to Fiji’s all-inclusive Turtle Island resort, which an investment manager in California snatched up for $33,000.
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