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Post by Tournesol »

We are listed on this site without our permission and it appears you can book direct. They have lifted our photos and description from B.com. They say they are the largest b & B booking site in the world!
It invites you to list your property but we haven't...
Has anyone else had dealings with them?
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oasiscouple
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Post by oasiscouple »

This is worrying. Following your tip I checked and sure enough my B&B is on their site lifted completly from B.C including asking for credit card détails. Am I likely to have people turning up who have given their card détails and expect to stay? What can be done?
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Just phoned B.C and Bedandbreakfast.eu are affiliated with B.C so all is above board apparently. It is aimed at bringing in more bookings in competition with ABB.
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Post by Giraffe »

In England we have a national police fraud line where you can report frauds like this. Do you have a similar one in France?
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Post by Ecosse »

Bedandbreakfast.eu is one of BC's many affiliates, so if you're signed up with BC, you're automatically listed free of charge on this site. I *think* any bookings coming directly from bedandbreakfast.eu comes through your BC dashboard, so you probably won't ever know it's not a 100% BC booking.
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Post by Giraffe »

My comment overlapped with oasiscouple. Obviously not a fraud, but one to help you get more bookings. I've just had a booking from a French site affiliated with HA/OD - all the communications came through my OD listing.
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Post by petitbois »

you'll also find you are on cybevasion, & a few others - all bookings will look like bdotcom though - think that is why only approx 1in5 guests leave reviews
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Post by Tournesol »

Thanks all who answered, yes we are on cybevasion too. On that the url comes up as B.com anyway.
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