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Online booking for villa. (Unsure if its a scam)

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  • 19-07-2011 5:06pm
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    smjpl
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭


    Does anybody know how to find out if the villa you book is legitimate? Booked the villa off a website (Their own website. Not a holiday search engine). The company are from the UK. Tried to phone them numerous times today and just got answering machine. I paid the deposit a while ago but unsure now and don't want to pay the rest without absolute confirmation.

    Cheers all.


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    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    There's no real way of knowing if it is a private business or family rental operation.

    They may be on holidays for a while, hence not answering their phones.

    Is it a .com or .co.uk website?


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    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Run a whois on the website and see if their contact details are available. If it's privately registered then it could very well be a scam.

    http://who.is


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    smjpl
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭smjpl


    Its ".com".

    Looked up alexa.com
    It says the website is 10 years old. Also the domain name is registered to the same name & address of the guy that I am dealing with. These seem like promising factors I think. Or can you put in any name & address when registering a domain name? The fact that its 10 years old seems good though.


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