Actually what you would want is unfortunately offered by AirBnb but not by booking.com. It would also be a big plus for me to be able to say I want 1 day unbookable before or after any booking. IT wise a pice of cake. They should do it.
I now have a similar situation here in the UK. I was called by an asian sounding guy claiming to be from google who requested I verify the property. I told him I didn't want it advertised this way at all.
The Advert showed both my telephone number and full address.
I had already received requests from people for the room directly on my phone and at the time had not realised how they got my number. One guy turned up and said he wanted to stay a week but didn't have the cash with him. Exactly what I never wanted and why I use agencies like BDC and AirBnB.
Anyway the google guy said in order to remove the listing I needed to verify it first which I tried but you cannot remove entirely. All you get is a large red banner saying permanently closed. It is googles way of blackmailing you into staying.
Because I never requested to be a member of goolge my business I called BDC and they appeared to know nothing. Who knows? Anyway they have tol me it may take a couple of days (15/04/2019) for them to get google to take the advert down. So it would seem it was BDC in the first place who instigated this thing.
What I did find out was, that it is possible to blank out the address.
You cannot remove all telephone numbers but I found you can replace them. So I put in BDC's help line.
Also I have been adding images to the ones from BDC with slogans such as Google Sucks. Also Added text to show people the advert is illegel.
In addition it is possible to change the location so I have moved from Weymouth to the Outer Hebrides.
I am still waiting for an acceptable answer but will be reporting the situation to the ICO for what I consider is a breach of the GDPR rules and could carry a huge fine.
Actually what you would want is unfortunately offered by AirBnb but not by booking.com. It would also be a big plus for me to be able to say I want 1 day unbookable before or after any booking. IT wise a pice of cake. They should do it.
I now have a similar situation here in the UK. I was called by an asian sounding guy claiming to be from google who requested I verify the property. I told him I didn't want it advertised this way at all.
The Advert showed both my telephone number and full address.
I had already received requests from people for the room directly on my phone and at the time had not realised how they got my number. One guy turned up and said he wanted to stay a week but didn't have the cash with him. Exactly what I never wanted and why I use agencies like BDC and AirBnB.
Anyway the google guy said in order to remove the listing I needed to verify it first which I tried but you cannot remove entirely. All you get is a large red banner saying permanently closed. It is googles way of blackmailing you into staying.
Because I never requested to be a member of goolge my business I called BDC and they appeared to know nothing. Who knows? Anyway they have tol me it may take a couple of days (15/04/2019) for them to get google to take the advert down. So it would seem it was BDC in the first place who instigated this thing.
What I did find out was, that it is possible to blank out the address.
You cannot remove all telephone numbers but I found you can replace them. So I put in BDC's help line.
Also I have been adding images to the ones from BDC with slogans such as Google Sucks. Also Added text to show people the advert is illegel.
In addition it is possible to change the location so I have moved from Weymouth to the Outer Hebrides.
I am still waiting for an acceptable answer but will be reporting the situation to the ICO for what I consider is a breach of the GDPR rules and could carry a huge fine.
-Paul-