Monday, April 23, 2007

GTI Last Minute Home Exchange offers

Hello Green Theme,



We haven't anything organised for this summer yet. Could you put our property on the "last minute" part of the site? Many thanks for all your help. Tom Hunter.

Hi Tom

Yes, I will do that for you, but for future reference you can do this yourself. You just need to login to your own member area using your email address and password, and then click on the hyperlink "Boost my Profile". I will also include an item link to your GTI Home Exchange listing HE10545 in the weblog, which may bring you some more enquiries.

It is also worth adding for the benefit of new GTI Home Exchange members that this feature is intended to assist members who haven’t yet arranged an exchange when their exchange dates are getting close (three months away or less). We rely on members to respect these terms and only place themselves on this list as appropriate so that the Last Minute feature can be a really useful tool for members still searching for an exchange.

If you are a new member you won’t see information or a link to add your listing to this separate list during your first week of membership (when you should be searching all the listings thoroughly , including the Last Minute offers still available, and contacting members with your own exchange offer). Note: once the feature is available in your member area, if you click the link Boost my Profile, this will add your listing to the Last Minute Offers list for a month and cannot be removed before then (you will see a countdown of how many days your listing has left on this list (in red) each time you log on). (On occasions members mistake this information to mean that this is the total length of their membership subscription remaining, but it merely refers to the length of time their listing will remain on the Last Minute list.) Once the month has expired if you wish to remain on the Last Minute Offers list, you will have to login to your member area and click on the hyperlink Boost my Profile again to be placed on the list for a further 28 days.

Very best regards.

Kath
Green Theme International Home Exchange
http://www.gti-home-exchange.com
email: gthomeexchange@btinternet.com

GTI Home Exchange blog resumes publication

Regular readers of the GTI Home Exchange blog may have thought that I have been figuratively 'struck dumb' owing to the lack of posts during April, or that I had become lost for words. But this was not so! On returning to our French location, we were happy to find that we were now able to benefit from a highspeed internet connection in our village, something which we had sorely missed before. We promptly signed up for the service, but then our troubles began. Our landline was cut automatically (as we anticipated according to the terms of the contract), but our ADSL service provider was unable to re-establish the connection of our line. It appears that we have been at the mercy of two major telecommunications suppliers who are not able to agree between them on the terms of provision of the service, and as a result, we the customer, have been caught in the middle. I am pleased to report that we are now back in action and I have posted this brief item by way of apology for the interruption to the continuity of the GTI Home Exchange blog and our email customer service. I am happy to say that at no time did the telecommunications problem affect the operation of the GTI Home Exchange web-site.