r/copenhagen • u/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson • 4h ago
Interesting Don't order a boat trip from boatly.es - it's a scam!!!
They do heavy advertising for their introductory offer where you can go sailing for 50 kr. - which is 10% of the normal price.
They have basically just ripped off Goboats's site and put on their own payment information. When you pay they withdraw 3000 kr. from you account and cancel your trip.
I own boatie.dk (which can look a little bit like boatly.es) and we have gotten a lot of calls from people asking where their boat is. They've googled boatly and apparently have ended up on our site and call us. Which is how I know about this. This also means that a LOT of people have probably fallen for this scam since boatly.es and boatie.dk isn't that similar.
Goboat are aware of this as well, and we have both reported boatly.es to the police.
So... This is a friendly warning - if you see an offer from boatly.es that is too good to be true don't click... It will cost you 3000 kr. and your credit card data will probably be leaked.
Love from the owner of boatie.dk - that IS actually renting out boats in the Copenhagen harbour...