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by Zorba
Tue Dec 20, 2016 3:57 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: HA pop up window freezes dashboard
Replies: 14
Views: 1132

Nemo I don't live in shadows just waiting for listing sites to expel me. If that happens, it happens.
Could you send me the work around by PM please, just in case it happens again?

If however it involves deleting cookies and history or blocking scripts, that no longer works.
by Zorba
Tue Dec 20, 2016 3:20 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: HA pop up window freezes dashboard
Replies: 14
Views: 1132

HA pop up window freezes dashboard

If this has been mentioned before, sorry. HA have a pop up window that blocks you doing anything else on the owner dashboard till you agree to sign up to online payments. You have to phone HA to get the window removed. It is impossible to properly log out if you don't - all you can do is close the b...
by Zorba
Sun Sep 18, 2016 7:43 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

I foresee a war of attrition, the big sites will simply make it more difficult to maintain multiple listing sites, and easier to use just one, theirs. In the end we throw our hands in the air ''surrender'' Apologies to the late Winston :D We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France Greece a...
by Zorba
Thu Sep 15, 2016 1:14 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

Into which section did he cut and paste the terms, Zorba? I am assuming the "Book with confidence" advice is to book direct with you!? He cut and pasted to the "payment terms" from the "addition information section" . Yes, we do have our own advice how guests can verif...
by Zorba
Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:37 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

I had a phone call from HA yesterday. A very pleasant young man based in France by his accent and number. I thought here we go.......but I was wrong. He said we had not added our booking terms. I told him we had but probably their changes had taken them off. I pointed him to the notes on pricing whi...
by Zorba
Sun Sep 11, 2016 9:34 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

Andrew H I think there is another side to this. You have to ask who are OD HA or Expedia, what assets do they have. The answer is virtualy none other than a couple of servers and a well known name. I would bet that even their office space is rented. They are trading on well know and respected trade ...
by Zorba
Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:59 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

So very good for the competition then.

I have seen it all before New Timber as I worked in management for both FW Woolworth and the Singer Company. Both big American companies that had ideas of how they would force their clientele to shop their way.
Where are those companies now?
by Zorba
Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:35 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

New Timber I was just adding a calculation on my last post when you posted. You need to see that. Your victory will be very short lived. After you have renewed, they will then force you to accept the service fee and you won't get a refund. I won't renew then, I know their games with auto-renew and a...
by Zorba
Sun Sep 11, 2016 3:51 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

I have just phoned HA again 4.20am Uk time. The usual security questions and this time I gave an complaint number. More Bla Bla Bla ................ so I said "please stop reading from the script. It is word for word the same as yesterday. " So the Indian lady says something like "you...
by Zorba
Sat Sep 10, 2016 12:45 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

Also when you go into more filters and see Payment Options bottom left of screen the box Accepts Credit Cards is already ticked so only owners accepting credit cards show. Payment Options Instant Book (2) 24 hour confirmation (11) Accepts Credit Cards On Owners Direct (11) Not when I check Apexblue...
by Zorba
Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:46 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

Welcome to online booking! Dear Kay XXX, Following our recent phone call, I'm delighted to confirm you are now signed up for online booking bla bla bla,,,,, Bla bla bla........ If this change was not authorised by you please contact us immediately - [/u]http://help.homeaway.co.uk/contact Bla Bla......
by Zorba
Sat Sep 10, 2016 5:01 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: OD using underhand dishonest tactics again - be warned!
Replies: 164
Views: 14242

I phoned HA very early this morning. I got through very quickly which is hardly surprising at it was 4.30am in UK. Asked the lady to stop quoting the travelers fee on my subscription only account. After a bit of pre-scripted stuff on her part she agreed. "Job done" I thought. Ten minutes l...
by Zorba
Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:21 am
Forum: Managing your garden and pool
Topic: Sudden Onset Greening and Cloudiness
Replies: 13
Views: 4797

I have posed this before - Cyprus is quite a bit hotter than the rest of Europe and when the water gets over 30C ~ 33C my experience this can happen. Chlorine lock as Teapot describes can be the cause but presumably your pool man has done a check. I disagree with him that levels over 50ppm will caus...
by Zorba
Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:12 pm
Forum: Managing your garden and pool
Topic: water quality
Replies: 25
Views: 8258

We do comply with French regs French regulations require any pool that is available to public use (classed as outside your immediate family and friends) to be declared to the ARS (Agence Régionale de Santé) who will send someone to analyze your water quality every month that the pool is open. This ...
by Zorba
Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:02 pm
Forum: Managing your garden and pool
Topic: water quality
Replies: 25
Views: 8258

HTH is German from Brenntag the chemical giant and it's just a copper algaecide same as anyone elses copper algaecide. Maybe yours is, but I have just bought another 3 litre can today of HTH total Blackshock . The stuff is made in Ambrose France. There is more to it than just copper sulplate. Their...