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Post by High Priestess on Mar 5, 2016 1:08:02 GMT
Some researchers from the University of Potsdam are doing a survey, here: ww3.unipark.de/uc/airbnbsurvey/Survey contact persons: Tabea Müller, Olga Abramova, Prof. Dr. Hanna Krasnova Chair of Business Informatics Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences University of Potsdam Email: tabea.mueller@uni-potsdam.de / krasnova@uni-potsdam.de PAGE 1 Omagine you are having a spare room in your apartment and you want to rent it out from time to time using a peer-to-peer platform like Airbnb, 9flats or Wimdu. You set up a profile on the platforms and you are lucky, you already got a few requests from people who want to rent your room. On the following pages you will see their profiles. Please decide if you would host them or not. PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5
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Post by Maria Lurdes (Milu) on Mar 5, 2016 13:55:38 GMT
That sounds like an interesting survey.
I had ANOTHER survery from Airbnb again, this one about the type of guests I'd let make changes to the booking. I think that's what it was about - I read the first page quickly, hit the 'continue' button and it didn't really make sense so I went back. But I couldn't get to the first page again! So I think the intent of the survey was as noted above. Lots of questions like "if the guest had five 5 star reviews" "if the guest had an average of 4 star reviews for cleanliness" etc. What I got out of the survey is that they may start to reveal the guests star ranking!
Sorry I don't mean to hijack this thread, it was just a kind of weird coincidence about "types" of guests although I know the university survey was about a different "type".
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Post by High Priestess on Mar 5, 2016 15:39:26 GMT
Maria Lurdes (Milu) ---- yes apparently we all got that survey. It was entirely about instant book and several other hosts got confused too because they weren't able to go back to the first page. But the first page just said all these questions apply to whom you would allow to book without manually approving them. Since I don't allow anyone to instant book, I said, "extremely unlikely" in answer to all the questions. Then I blasted them for pushing instant book on us in the comments section at the end and said, "homes are not hotels!!!" I know many hosts use instant book, particularly those renting out whole apartments (where this may make more sense to use) but as someone having guests in my home where I live, I dont' believe in instant book and I resent it being pushed on hosts, or hosts feeling they need to use it to get higher results in search results.
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Post by helgaparis on Mar 7, 2016 20:21:24 GMT
Interesting - I did not get that survey from airbnb, but I have Instant book on for the bed business, not for the whole apartment, lol.
I take pretty much everyone, but elder people where I fear they will fall from the mezzanine, inappropriate requests like 3 bikers for a small bed, and guys who want to check in at 8 am and leave the next day at 9 pm. Ah, and a third party booking for a homeless person whom an animal defender hat kidnapped the dog. Or dognapped. (He got it back after a media uproar). If people come over as very entitled in their request, I crush that notion or discourage the booking (both are fine) but otherwise I think it's not important who they are. If they have similar ideas and lifestyle, it's easy chatting and if they are different it is more interesting. I was against IB before and still don't dare it for the apartment when I'm not around to avoid damage. But after a 50 guests or so and a low in booking, I told myself, I'll risk it. I did not regret it, but it does not bring more bookings.
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