Yes, your description is rather good, so I just borrowed a few phrases and replaced with my own place names....
....just kidding....
Seriously, this has been an ongoing problem for me as others in my area have jumped on the bandwagon, and not only what we call the Fizzbos (meaning FSBO= For Sale By Owner), also some of the professional Real Estate Agents who offer summer rentals. It started with a few key phrases, (I'm not going to type the exact phrases here because that will send Google to this site instead of mine!).
At first I was annoyed, same as you, but short of trademarking those phrases (and the professional agents do), there's nothing I could do about it, so I treated it as imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
I didn't say anything to the copycats, mainly because I want people in my area with similar accomodation to mine to refer inquiries to me when their place is booked, which is what I do for them. This is a small town and those people are my neighbors, even though I may not know them, but I can appreciate that's not the same situation in a big city like Edinburgh.
However, when it got so far as to copy the name of my home in the title of their Listings as well, which is "Name-of-Town Beach House", that worried me, because we've been marketing under that name for several years and are fairly well known.
In fact, somewhere on this board, there is a post from me asking for help to rename my house to something that couldn't be copied. Lots of helpful suggestions, but in the end, we decided we had too much invested to let it go and carried on. It's now perhaps a year later, and interestingly, it's no longer a problem. They have dropped it, finding their own unique names instead.
Generally, I think the copycats are the newbies, and what comes with experience is the realization that you need to differentiate yourself from the competition, not look and sound the same as anyone else.
I still have a realted problem though. I've had to limit the information that I include on my personal website because I know I'm being tracked, especially my rates and what it includes. I know that some send me fake inquiries to get copies of my reply letters, terms and conditions. One even had the nerve to ask me for a sample lease.
I'm not saying that you are not perfectly within your rights to complain to the listing site about plagiarism, I'm just sharing my slightly different perspective on the situation.
So as far as the man who is copying the description of Edinburgh is concerned, he has already admitted plagiarism, so you can certainly ask him to change it, but I don't think the description of Edinbugh is what is enticing to them to your property rather than theirs, it's the description of the property itself.
However, I think what I'm saying is that this is only the tip of the iceberg and whilst you may stop it on this occasion, you're not going to stop it altogether.
The trick is to stay not one, but two steps ahead and that's the value of this site. People here are very generous and share their ideas. You'll find that you build a stockpile of new ideas that you can implement when the competition get too close. They will always be trailing behind, scratching their heads as to how you keep doing so well.
My 2 cents.
,daily cleaning (19.50€ per hour) . He is also offering breakfast at 10€ per person per day. However, I show up in the search engines, and there is no sign of him.
when she is only trying to make an income, but at least she has altered her advert.
