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Please see below the exchange which is my review on trip advisor and the dive centre's response. Trip advisor does not allow me to respond back to the dive centre's requests for me to answer.

You will then see the dive centre has the engaged one of its employees to pose as a tourist asking me for answers about its view of my review.

It then becomes clear that they are actually employed by the dive centre, this is done purely in their own commercial interests and deceitfully so. They only admitted they we employed by the dive centre after I spoke to you.

Dangerous operators, don't use them if you value your life.
Review of Skopelos Dive Center
Reviewed 26 May 2019
I went diving with them last yes and had poisonous air, i’m Guessing their air filling intake was near the kitchen or some other toxins, however once I got below 20 mtrs my vision went fragmented, and I was about to pass out, I carried out a safety assent, the assistant (dive master to the instructor) saw my eyes / pupils were dilated but didn’t even connect with me and assist me to the surface, I was in and out of consciousness, instead he waited for me to reach the surface and then began to blame the experience on me being dehydrated!! I wouldn’t put my life in their hand again, ps I was previously an instructor not a novice.Show less
Date of experience: August 2018
Ask ashleymanfred1 about Skopelos Dive Center
This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC
SkopelosDiveCenter, Ιδιοκτήτης at Skopelos Dive Center, responded to this review
Responded 4 weeks ago
Hello Sir or Madam,

It is very important what you are mentioning!

Could you please give me some more details about your dive? Which day was it? What was the first name of the Divemaster being with you? Which was the diving site? We are a small business and not many people work for us, I trust them all, and I am sure if something like that had ever happened I should have been informed.

Obviously it was not the air quality since we use the same procedures for filling the tanks five years now and no one has ever complained for something like that! But just the fact of someone surfacing from 20m is something our Dive master's/ Instructors would have reported to me because such a thing is very rare.

Please let me know some details.

6 Jul 2019

Hi mate i saw your comment on trip advisor and im looking to go there. Is the only one diving center..
13:25
7 Jul 2019
I think there are others on the island, I was probably unintentional but I was then how they dealt with it that was worse. Do a search for dive centres on skopelos through google, I can recommend any others as i’ve Not used them.
Enjoy
07:51

I search for it is no one on the island and i call them say about bad reviews and ive been told is fake reviews... So i dont know
10:30

When you dove with them? This year?
10:31

When you dove with them? This year?
10:31
I went diving with them last August
16:36

2018?
16:38

So maybe they better now.. But i saw they answered on reviews why don't reply?
16:38

You remember the name of the divemaster so i can check if is there the same guy??
16:41
Today
You can call the dive centre, ask them about the review and find out how the dive master was at the time, they pretend not to know me from my review but they must have a record of my diving with them if not they are worse than i said before. on their response on trip advisor they ask me to tell them the dive master (his name I can't remember) and the date. They should know all this if they keep records for safety as is required of PADI locations.
They say this should have been reported to them, i agree but it seems they chose not to record it. As the instructor how's group i was with was fully aware of it as i split from his group to ascend, he didn't follow the rules either as he should have aborted the dive and taken the whole group up with me for safety. He spoke to me about it when he got on the boat after he finished the dive with the rest of my original group.
I have a witness that i was diving with called Chris (and their could not have been many divers called Ashley in September last year. I would respond to their review on Trip advisor but it won't let me as I've not visited the dive centre again since.
08:13

Oh ok this is really important but you also must have your logbook and the divemaster sign up for you so you have his padi pro number..but before you tell me last August now you saying September
11:22
Hi I get the impression that you are from the dive centre, if so, you should have the details of the dive, the dive centre did not ask for my log book and did not complete it, if they are following the PADI procedures they should have logged all dives and all divers and all staff that conducted those dives.
i was sent pictures taken by the instructor on the previous dive, they do know who i am.
As fir you correcting me about the month i dived the it is obvious that you are from the dive centre.
11:55
I do work for the dive center but its not very important me personally i need to no the truth cause im servicing the compressors this summer and its not to a kitchen change filters when its time etc.. All my questions was personal
Maybe you should have mentioned that before you started to pretend you are an impartial party or a tourist!!

I wrote good and bad reviews. my bad reviews were taken down... just another fake company. i also noticed that 'businesses' with good reviews are in real life very bad businesses... how come? fake reviews. absolutely unreliable. 5 star reviews businesses and you go get a 1 star experience. strange huh?

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Absolutely awful customer service as a owner!
I had two bookings for November and this afternoon I got a very rude email
from trip advisor stating that they were cancelling m my bookings as it is not a whole house that the guests would get! It never stated it was! It states very clearly that it’s a double with En suite and parking.
Tripadvisor get very upset if you set rules in your home and they also charge a lot more than air b do.
For the same booking with air b I would pay £3.50 with tripadvisor they wanted £25! I’ll stick with air and never use tripadvisor again!
Very very rude staff.

I recently asked Tripadvisor to remove my listing under the data protection act as I am a sole trader. I had been advised that this was my right under the legislation. Trip advisor got me to fill out a GDPR form which they acknowledged receipt of but then nothing more. When I chased it they said I was out of time on this complaint?? But I was waiting for them. Anyway, they’ve given me a new case number and will be back to me at some point, but if they continue to ignore me what then? Kind of ironic when they host reviews from people who may or may not exist and we have to comply with their rules but they don’t comply with the law of the land??

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''Rip Off Prices

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Food is very average, and again expensive. Staff is usually short of, and management hide in the reception, oblivious to people waiting.

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Recently have posted a review on their site about our woes & troubles with PIA, on 2 separate occasions they have now removed the reviews. Even though they were 100% correct and we had provided ticketing information for the flights.
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