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I found this website yesterday http://213.174.150.37/ or http://www.booked.net and then searched for my property. I then put in my property name and lo and behold, I'm listed! So, I tried to see if they can book me (since I am available via the GDS on some websites) and they can't. I tried dates that had no bookings at al and it came back with
This hotel has no rooms available for the dates of your stay, but we can suggest other available hotels.
Available rooms from Wed 19 Oct 2011 , to Fri 21 Oct 2011 , for 2 nights for 2 adults per room
WTF?!?! I do have rooms for those dates.
So it appears that this company is listing properties that they don't have ability to book so that they can sucker people in and then offer them a different property.
I sent them a complaint (likely going to fall on deaf ears) but I have also submitted it to Google via https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en with the specific URL to my property. I think people should carefully check their own properties.
Do you think I should post this on the PAII so others can check as well?
This hotel has no rooms available for the dates of your stay, but we can suggest other available hotels.
Available rooms from Wed 19 Oct 2011 , to Fri 21 Oct 2011 , for 2 nights for 2 adults per room
WTF?!?! I do have rooms for those dates.
So it appears that this company is listing properties that they don't have ability to book so that they can sucker people in and then offer them a different property.
I sent them a complaint (likely going to fall on deaf ears) but I have also submitted it to Google via https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en with the specific URL to my property. I think people should carefully check their own properties.
Do you think I should post this on the PAII so others can check as well?