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Auctioning your property’s holiday rental availability couldn’t be easier! What’s more listing your rentals with bidabooking.com is completely free!!
We do not charge you up front for the use of the site and only collect a fee if we have been successful in helping you sell availability for your holiday home.
Bidabooking.com is the most cost effective way for you to market and sell your property’s rental availability at a fraction of the cost of most other marketing websites.
On registering with bidabooking.com you will be asked to provide personal informationfor our records. Only once your listed item has sold in auction will we charge our fee on the final sale price. (please refer to terms and conditions for more information)
We hope that the following guidelines will help youcomplete your auction listing successfully and help promote and sell your holiday rental.
Uploading your holiday rental details and availability
When registered you will have your own personal area where you can upload your holiday rental details, manage auction listings and amend your personal details.
Select the link ‘I want to upload my property’ by clicking on this and you will be directed to our easy to complete property upload form.
To simplify the process, we use standard headings, allowing you to free type information into each field.
If at anytime throughout the process you require assistance click the  to provide helpful reference.
Property Title: This is the first thing about your holiday rental any prospective guest is going to see. When viewing holiday rentals listed on the site, this is what will draw them to click on viewing the full details of your listing.
e.g. Beautiful modern 3 bedroom villa with panoramic views.
Intro Text: This is the short paragraph also displayed on the initial listing. Avoid too much detail, you want to grab the prospective guests attention so that they click through to get an in-depth view of your holiday rental.
e.g. A quiet and peaceful 3 bedroom 4 bathroom villa with a private pool and a 5 min walk from the marina
Property Description: Here you can really sell the benefits of your holiday rental in your own words.We give you 1000 characters to describe your holiday rental and its location in more detail.
Location and Property type: Make sure you select not only the country and region but also the area your holiday rental is located in. This will be key to prospective guests as they want to know exactly where they will be staying. Some guests will only search for holiday rental in a particular area, so be sure not to miss out!
You will need to tell them what your type of holiday rental accommodation it is, a villa or an apartment, how many bedrooms it has and how many people it can sleep. Some prospective guest will want a holiday rental that sleeps 4 with 2 bedrooms other will be happy with sofa beds.
Duration Stay: How long is the availability d you are auction. It might start on the 1st August, however is it for a 3-night stay or 2 weeks? You can choose anything from 1 night right up to a month at a time.
Start Date Stay: Simply select the date that your availability starts from.
Prices and Auction Duration: In this section you have a variety of options to ensure you get exactly what you want financially for your holiday rental. This ensures that it never ends up costing you money to rent your holiday home with out you making a profit in return.
Buynow! Price: If you wish you can advertise you full rate whilst listing your availability in auction. Allowing you the chance to sell your holiday rental at full price and removing it from auction if someone opts to pay this. If you advertise your property elsewhere at 350 a week then enter 350 in the buynow price box. If you don’t wish to use this option then simply leave it blank.
Reserve Price: This ensures you never allow your holiday rental to sell for less than you can afford. If the minimum you are happy to except is 250 then enter this. This section is mandatory. We advise you choose a reserve to at least cover your overheads for that period and net you a minimum profit.
We work in Sterling GBP Euros EUR and American Dollars USD so you will need to select the currency you wish to trade in.
Auction duration: Choose how long you wish the auction to run for, choose from 3, 5, 7 or 10 day auctions. If you’re not successful in selling it in that time, don’t worry as you won’t have been charged and you can re-enter it into another auction with the click of a button.
Auction Starting bid: Choose where you want the bidding to start. This can be 0.01p if you wish or in the hundreds. However we would advise not setting the starting bid to high as it will discourage prospective guests from bidding.
Accommodation: Here you can describe you holiday rental room by room. giving as much information as possible. State if the bedrooms have double beds, or if the bathroom only has a shower. Make it clear.
You can also let prospective guests know what services you provide whilst they are there and how frequently.
Amenities/Facilities: To make it as easy as possible we provided you with a list of the amenities and facilities most prospective guests are looking for in a holiday rental. All you have to do is click the tick box for each one that applies to your holiday rental.
Further details:
Outdoors: Does your holiday rental have a private outdoor area or share communal space? Tell prospective guests what is in this space.
How to get there: Lots of prospective guests may never have been to the destination where your holiday rental is located, or may be hiring a car or getting a taxi. Give them detailed directions on how to reach your holiday home and how long it will take. It is also a suggestion to include the local airport and public transport links if there are any.
Distances: Let prospective guests know what is in the surrounding areas. If there is a water park how far away is it. How long will it take to get to the beach or town centre and can they walk or do they need to drive.
Other Information: Allows you to enter in any other information that you think may be relevant to your guests. Things such as an unique outside area like a pool side bar, ora heated swimming pool for an additional fee , or anything else you think will help promote your property and prompt prospective guests to place a bid.
Payment Method: Bidabooking.com operates using Paypal and recommends it as a fast, safe and effective way to collect payment, however if you would prefer to accept payment by another method or offer multiple options such as accepting cheques, bank transfers or credit cards then you can list this information in this section. We also recommend stating if there is a security deposit or if you have st terms and conditions for your holiday rental.
Picture Upload: To support your personal description of your holiday rental you are also able to upload 4 photos to accompany this side by side. This is the perfect way for you to be able back up what you have said about your holiday home and gives prospective guests the chance to actual see what it is they are bidding on.
Photos can be uploaded in JPEG, GIF or PNG formats however try to avoid any special symbols in the titles as this may cause you problems with the upload and make sure your files are not to large. Its as easy as adding an attachment to an email,simply select the photo file as saved on your computer and hit the upload button.
As a sales tip try to ensure your photos are of the best quality, are bright and sharp. Photos are one of the strongest marketing tools available to you so make sure your property looks inviting and any prospect guest will easily imagine themselves relaxing there on their holidays.
Completing a transaction: Once a successful auction has closed, you will be notified of the winners details so that you can make contact with them to arrange payment for your holiday rental and organise all necessary details such as key collections. At the same time bidabooking.com will also notify the winner that they have been successful and issue them with an invoice for the final sale price on your behalf.
For more information on using the site or if you have not been able to answer your questions through the owner’s guide, please view our help page for our FAQs.
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