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by hobbo
Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:08 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence
Replies: 5
Views: 1114

Unfortunately guests think it means that the property has been awarded the certificate - not the owners - & it gives the impression of a superior listing. I fulfil all the criteria but as I won't do instant bookings will never get it. Kyreniagirl, instant bookings are not part of the criteria, ...
by hobbo
Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:54 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence
Replies: 5
Views: 1114

I would Never put one of those on my website, it's purely a marketing ploy, you put it on your own website so if someone is interested in your rental and they see it and click on it, it takes then away from your website and on to their site with hundreds of your competitors Righ there you could hav...
by hobbo
Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:49 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence
Replies: 5
Views: 1114

Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence

I've just checked regarding their 'certificate of excellence' criteria in their FAQ to the question 'Do commercial relationships with TripAdvisor influence Certificate of Excellence? the answer is No, Certificate of Excellence recipients are determined by travellers through their ratings and reviews...
by hobbo
Tue Nov 28, 2017 5:19 pm
Forum: Managing your property
Topic: Increased Tax
Replies: 8
Views: 2636

I don't know about Turkish VAT, but in UK, it's the VAT rate when the payment is received/invoiced that is relevant not the date the holiday is taken. So if guest pays in advance, they pay the reduced/nil rate. that would be great and also fair however.. ' Each month the owner (or agent) will have ...
by hobbo
Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:11 pm
Forum: Managing your property
Topic: Increased Tax
Replies: 8
Views: 2636

Hi Hobbo We were concerned this was going to happen in the UK as lowering of the VAT threshold was being suggested. We don't actually spend a great deal where we could recover VAT spent so it would be a big problem for us. I assume this is going to impact all of your local competition, do you track...
by hobbo
Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:33 am
Forum: Managing your property
Topic: Increased Tax
Replies: 8
Views: 2636

Increased Tax

Looking for advice. We rent our Turkish villa out and have been successful in getting good quality bookings (12 weeks already booked for 2018) including several repeat bookers. The Turkish authorities are reclassifying short-term rentals as commercial income from 1/1/2018 which means getting a busin...
by hobbo
Sun May 21, 2017 10:52 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Contacting guests when on commission based sites
Replies: 4
Views: 895

Contacting guests when on commission based sites

Hi I'm currently thinking of moving on to OD and HL commission from subscription. My question is at what point in the booking process do owners receive the guests email address ? A new rule from the Turkish government requires the submission of passport numbers etc to be entered into a state provide...
by hobbo
Fri May 19, 2017 9:51 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Promote my Place users
Replies: 145
Views: 43301

just built my PMP website would someone be able to PM me a code please
by hobbo
Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:55 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: HL sort order...
Replies: 8
Views: 1667

At last an answer to the sort order from the renewal team. Customer service have denied that it exists. There is a priority bias given to: 1st Commissioned listings, 2nd Subscription listings with Online payments and the new contract (3% charge and payments sent after guests arrive) 3rd Subscription...
by hobbo
Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:36 pm
Forum: Social media
Topic: Facebook Likes
Replies: 19
Views: 7827

Re: Facebook Likes

Just keeping up with the last four requests on the 'post your facebook page....." for likes, and 'liked' them. However, is there somewhere on your own page where you can see who exactly liked you? Do you have to post or message in order for someone to know where that extra like came from? One ...
by hobbo
Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:12 am
Forum: Social media
Topic: Post your Facebook pages to be 'Liked'
Replies: 151
Views: 103891

https://www.facebook.com/Villa-Zeytin-Koru-625840757448755/ Just going through and clicking Like, could take a while but will get to everybody!! so if you get a like from Stuart please return the favour!! I've got halfway down page 9 and received a warning from facebook, apparently I've liked too m...
by hobbo
Thu Feb 04, 2016 5:01 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: HL sort order...
Replies: 8
Views: 1667

Update I have heard from others who confirm that their simple search results were only showing online bookable properties sorted commision/subscription then following a cookie/cache clean the same search showed 'all' properties (presume all... who knows) with a sort order heavily weighted towards co...
by hobbo
Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:45 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: HL sort order...
Replies: 8
Views: 1667

Very worrying info Hobbo. Any ideas what the missing 568 properties had in common that caused them to be hidden by your cookies ? I can't say for 100% but I can't remember seeing a listing that wasn't a 'Book online with Payment Protection' . I have just counted these and the number is not exactly ...
by hobbo
Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:17 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: HL sort order...
Replies: 8
Views: 1667

I need to do more research.. just searched Bournemouth on my laptop and got 310 properties (no filters set) and yes sort order appeared random, same search on my desktop (same computer as I did Kalkan research on ) same search Bournemouth (no filters set) only 94 properties found with the last 29 su...