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Oyster.com for all of my personal information. my documents, my birth certificates for my kids, all that stuff you can scan in and send up to the cloud. thats one thing people are starting to use a lot more of right now. >> heather: so thats a storage program? >> thats right. >> heather: okay. >> absolutely. you store and there is many of them. oyster.com is one of them. there is many of them, but people are doing that now. in the olden days, they would put it in a safety deposit box or hold stu...

Unlimited number of vacations for you to many destinations. they are adding more destinations all of the time. they are rying to cat-- trying cater to families or a couple groups. they have negotiated condos single family homes. a lot of inventory you would not find. >> 30 destinations but you have to pay the 500 bucks. for those who dont want to spend the money tell us about this. oyster.com. >> it is a hotel tell all. there are trip advisors and other sites out there that will tell you hotel r...

>> reporter: picturesque. >> in the picture it is quite beautiful. >> reporter: but when patty arrived, she got a stunning view, all right. >> what was it? >> it was a sea of solar panels. literally a sea of solar panels. >> reporter: only when she complained did the hotel offer to switch her room. experts say these photo fakeouts are getting so common -- >> some hotels outright deceive you in their marketing. >> reporter: the travel website oyster.com now sends investigators to hotels around th...

Same spot reveals the truth. its not as private as you might think. the picture comes from oyster.com. its a website thats trying to separate fact from fiction. lets get the details from ellie seidman, the co-founder of oyster.com. how do you get these photos? the hones that are not the hote ones? >> we have a reviewer that visit all the hotel sigh sites. they visit the hotel, cover it from "a" to "z," so you know exactly what youre going to get. >> so its like a zagats is for the restaurants. >...

>> quickly, how can you authenticate that picture, that not so great photo from the hotel website? that it is from where it says its from. >> i mean, you know, we were actually there. our photo, the advantage that oyster.com has is we actually go. its a product that you cant see before you buy and cant return once you bought it. we go ahead of time to see its there. >> lets check out a pool. one picture thats absolutely gorgeous. youll see this hotel website saying the pool is marvelous, wonderf...

>> that makes no sense. >> it makes no sense from any angle. >> lets hope a little more has made sense. we thank you for being here, ellie seidman from oyster.com. thats a wrap of our msnbc coverage. weve got updates and breaking news as it happens about 30 minutes from now. we look forward to seeing it happen. have a good one. ♪ [ female announcer ] start your morning... hey. what are you doing up? i thought id take a drive before work. want to come? [ female announcer ] or make his day. yeah...

Absolutely. >> what about the couple walking along the beach outside their home? nice quiet, gorgeous beach. and the couple starts walking, not so much. >> lets zoom out. >> thats once again, hawaii. youre supposed to have a very nice view from that beach. its relaxing and lovely. next one. youre going to see that one. that is construction. youve got cranes there on not only the hotel but just in the whole community. thats not so nice right there. what do people say when they send in these notes...

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Well, have you ever looked up a hotel on line, thought it looked pretty good. you booked a room. then you get there and you think, nuclear power plant wasnt in the picture. >> some times what you see isnt really what you get. the website oyster.com is trying to change that. vicky maybury reports. >> reporter: you waited all year. and youre finally going on vacation. how about a steaming hot tub for two in montego bay, or an intimate wedding in punta cana. check out the delicious buffet in the do...

Comforter. >> reporter: from the toilet. >> the bathroom is so important to people. you would be surprised how many people spend time on our website looking act the bathroom photos. >> reporter: to the thread count. >> we will peel the sheets and take a look. >> reporter: no detail is too small or too insignificant. the pencil holder. >> why not? were here. we have the camera. may as well show everybody the most that we can. we take pictures that we dont edit. we dont doctor them. no photo shop....