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Unbelievable rental adverts!

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    Rasmus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    taz70 wrote: »
    I know there's been threads on this in the past, but I couldn't see one to add to.

    I just came across this fabulous house on Daft and was immediately struck by the amount of light flooding in the kitchen, the massive rooms .... then noticed the non-Irish electrical socket and a quick search later, found the bedroom image came from a US website.

    Daft ad: http://www.daft.ie/searchrental.daft?id=1316653
    Image online: http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/6269818/list/Readers--Choice--The-10-Most-Popular-Bedrooms-of-2012

    Has anyone else seen any other "too good to be true" adverts lately?

    How can that agency get away with this? (Unless the photo on the U.S. website is actually the Ballsbridge apartment? That is, a bedroom in Dublin decorated by Chalet interiors in Denver, Colorado.)


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    silja
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭silja


    Bad English in the ad too- it's a scam. If you contact them, they will probably say they are abroad and if you Western Union them money, they will send a key or something.


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    TheBandicoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭TheBandicoot


    This is a huge problem on daft lately. I have email alerts set up and I'd say that more then half of the ones I got this week were fake. They're easy to spot- the quality of the place is way too nice for Dublin, there's no phone number, the contact is foreign, there's no mention of rent allowance and the price is way too good.

    I flag them straight away and daft deletes them within an hour, but it is very annoying.


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    Rasmus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    silja wrote: »
    Bad English in the ad too- it's a scam. If you contact them, they will probably say they are abroad and if you Western Union them money, they will send a key or something.

    They have loads of ads on DAFT though, and other sites. http://www.propertyvision.ie/ There is also a picture of their shop on the website.


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    U.P.O.
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    Rasmus wrote: »
    They have loads of ads on DAFT though, and other sites. http://www.propertyvision.ie/ There is also a picture of their shop on the website.

    The picture of their shop on their website looks like a really bad photoshop to me. It even says something Solicitors on the sign (i know its possible theres a solicitors upstairs or something but it looks totally fake anyway - the logo above the shop, the TV in the window, all the "properties" in the window are the exact same too etc...)


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    Rasmus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    U.P.O. wrote: »
    The picture of their shop on their website looks like a really bad photoshop to me. It even says something Solicitors on the sign (i know its possible theres a solicitors upstairs or something but it looks totally fake anyway - the logo above the shop, the TV in the window, all the "properties" in the window are the exact same too etc...)

    Yeah you are right, now that I look at it more closely. This was 33 Berkeley Road in 2009:

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    taz70
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭taz70


    TheBandicoot wrote: »
    I flag them straight away and daft deletes them within an hour, but it is very annoying.

    I reported the ad before I posted here, but it doesn't seem to have disappeared yet.

    Love the photoshopped store front. What detail!


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    beazee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭beazee


    They'll even help you out with your mortgage provided you speak Russian / Latvian / Lithuanian:
    http://translate.google.com/www.propertyvision.ie/ru/


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    beazee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭beazee


    taz70 wrote: »
    Love the photoshopped store front. What detail!
    0gBwZei.png
    In case it was removed from the website


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    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,798 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=670833
    If you look at the photos here though it does look like the shop exists.....

    Why the fake photos I wonder.....


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    gaius c
    Registered Users Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭gaius c


    I'm used to dealing with letting agents who have fake (or expired but not removed) ads up to draw potential tenants in to their real stock but this is quite ambitious really, isn't it?


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    TheBandicoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭TheBandicoot


    As an example, here's two ads I got tonight that were fake.


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    ams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭ams


    Came across a few fake ads last year - always wanted you to do a transfer of money or something dodge for an unbelievable looking apartment.

    When I put the image on the ad into google images it returned an apartment for rent in Barcelona!


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    ams wrote: »
    Came across a few fake ads last year - always wanted you to do a transfer of money or something dodge for an unbelievable looking apartment.

    When I put the image on the ad into google images it returned an apartment for rent in Barcelona!

    Maybe Ryanair are getting into the property rental game.


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