Daft.ie - an outrageous increase in charges

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robert moon

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I advertised my apartment on Daft.ie in January 2022 the charge was €75
I advertised my apartment on Daft .ie last week the charge was €265
An outrageous increase .
Any ideas who I should contact to report this ?
 
You obviously agreed to the charge - you did have the option of using a different advertising channel or channels

That's what (quasi-)monoplies do - charge whatever they want
The solution is to use a competitor - nothing like competition for keeping prices down
 
NoRegretsCoyote said:
Am astonished you even need to advertise in the current market.
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As Coyote said above, if it's really annoying you there are other routes to letting it out.
I was amazed at the increase recently also, I decided not to use Daft for the first time ever so I just put it out there using other online mediums and with how high demand is now, I still had a hundred replies in minutes.
 
The charge to advertise a house for rent on daft is €195 or €209 or €229. I just checked there. That's a ridiculous price increase. People will have to vote with their feet.
 
robert moon said:
I advertised my apartment on Daft.ie in January 2022 the charge was €75
I advertised my apartment on Daft .ie last week the charge was €265
An outrageous increase .
Any ideas who I should contact to report this ?
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I don't see any €265 charge.
Just €135, €149 and €169.
 
Excuse my ignorance - what are the other online mediums one can use to advertise an apartment in Dublin ?

I was charged €265 for my advert
 
Contact the HR department in large local employers. They will be delighted and pass your details on.
 
Yes last time I used Facebook. To be honest, the quality of respondents is not as good as what you get from Daft, but you get what you pay for I suppose. There are so many people looking for places that if you're willing to sift through the bs applicants from Facebook you will still find plenty suitable candidates.
 
Towger said:
Contact the HR department in large local employers. They will be delighted and pass your details on.
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Sometimes the company themselves will enter into a contract with you and lease the property medium term from you to have available for their staff.
 
It is interesting though. Daft listings are pretty much a barometer for availability and prices… if (esp decent non price gouging!) LL’s aren’t using it then the stats are pretty distorted?
 
luckystar said:
It is interesting though. Daft listings are pretty much a barometer for availability and prices… if (esp decent non price gouging!) LL’s aren’t using it then the stats are pretty distorted?
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Unfortunately, I don’t think it would really matter.

Daft produce reports that are hopped on by the media and taken at face value without any question of their methodology, accuracy, representativeness, etc
 
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