Competition is increasing among Olympics accommodation sites, and some competitors have taken to questionable methods in an attempt to gain advantage over others.

Today our system flagged a number of inquiry emails sent by the owner of www.2012-accommodation.co.uk in an attempt to attract our users to his website.

We hope to discourage any such behaviour in future, which is why we are publishing the email here.

Whilst we are obviously not happy about someone using our site to send unsolicited marketing emails, for us the most important thing is, to make sure that anyone who received that email, is clear about what is being offered. Those of you who received the email got a variation of the following:

"I am emailing you to see whether you would be interested in advertising on my site, www.2012-accommodation.co.uk

Interest is coming in from all over the world. This can be seen by the flag counter and stats at the foot of each web page on the site.

I am offering property owners and businesses adverts for £10 per property. This is a one off fee until the end of the games.

If you would like to advertise your property, then please register and complete the forms adding as much information and photos as you possibly can.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Mike Ranson."

In our opinion, the email suggests that traffic is significant, yet the reality is that 2012-accommodation.com currently has almost no traffic whatsoever. In addition, the email offers a price of £10, yet the website reads £40.

Of course everyone is free to make up their own mind. To make that easier we have added 2012-accommodation.com to our Olympics accommodation site comparison.

Currently 2012-accommodation.com's Alexa Rank is in the 6 million, and a total of 2 other websites have decided to link to them. It therefore ranks lowest amongst all the sites we compared.

Mike, good luck but please stop contacting our members through our website.

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