Uffizi Gallery - non-ufficial sites
Jun 9th, 2020, 05:11 AM
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Uffizi Gallery - non-ufficial sites
This has just popped up in La Repubblica a leading Italian newspaper albeit somewhat behind the times (no pun intended!).
A US registered company called BoxNic set up a number of domains such as uffizi.com, uffizi.net, uffizigallery.com, uffizigallery.org and so on to lure people to book visits through them at higher prices than was available through the official site which is https://www.uffizi.it/en
The company has been obligated to pay $120,000 to the Uffizi.
Generally most Fodorites are careful with whom they deal with and this particular Forum is one of the best in helping each other but one always has to be careful.
A US registered company called BoxNic set up a number of domains such as uffizi.com, uffizi.net, uffizigallery.com, uffizigallery.org and so on to lure people to book visits through them at higher prices than was available through the official site which is https://www.uffizi.it/en
The company has been obligated to pay $120,000 to the Uffizi.
Generally most Fodorites are careful with whom they deal with and this particular Forum is one of the best in helping each other but one always has to be careful.
Jun 10th, 2020, 06:23 AM
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This has just popped up in La Repubblica a leading Italian newspaper albeit somewhat behind the times (no pun intended!).
A US registered company called BoxNic set up a number of domains such as uffizi.com, uffizi.net, uffizigallery.com, uffizigallery.org and so on to lure people to book visits through them at higher prices than was available through the official site which is https://www.uffizi.it/en
The company has been obligated to pay $120,000 to the Uffizi.
Generally most Fodorites are careful with whom they deal with and this particular Forum is one of the best in helping each other but one always has to be careful.
A US registered company called BoxNic set up a number of domains such as uffizi.com, uffizi.net, uffizigallery.com, uffizigallery.org and so on to lure people to book visits through them at higher prices than was available through the official site which is https://www.uffizi.it/en
The company has been obligated to pay $120,000 to the Uffizi.
Generally most Fodorites are careful with whom they deal with and this particular Forum is one of the best in helping each other but one always has to be careful.
Jun 13th, 2020, 12:47 AM
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Official website tickets Firenze Musei Uffizi e Accademia
It doesn't help that they used b ticket for the official name.
They should be asking the name register to force the unofficial to give up the names. They should also be harassing google and the other search engines.
It doesn't help that they used b ticket for the official name.
They should be asking the name register to force the unofficial to give up the names. They should also be harassing google and the other search engines.
Jun 13th, 2020, 08:31 AM
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Traveller Nick - I understand that the names have been cancelled but the risk is that if these individuals are really sophisticated they will re-invent themselves just as the torrent sites do.
