 In December 2017 lastminute.com group decided to scale up its positioning in Germany and bought Comvel GmbH, founded 2004 in Munich, which operates the travel website weg.de, one of Germany's best-known online travel sites which had been a wholly owned subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Group since January 2014. weg.de offers its customers the entire range of travel options, with its primary focus on package holidays and all-inclusive vacations.In 2009, lastminute.com attracted much criticism on consumer sites and blogs regarding their association with highstreetmax.com, a brand owned by Adaptive Affinity, in turn owned by US corporation Vertrue.The company was accused of subjecting customers to negative option selling, whereby if they click or do not untick a certain box they find later that they were subject to unauthorised credit card withdrawals for membership schemes they had not signed up for, whose details they were not advised and whose supposed benefits they did not see.