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Post by alicia on Apr 1, 2016 9:59:00 GMT
I had a guest who wanted to stay on Sunday 3rd April for 2 nights. I pre-approved. They tried to book and the price went up from AUS$190 to AUS$222 (my room is €130 for 2 nights). I dropped my price to €110 and they agreed. I pre-approved - WHERE IS THE BUTTON TO ACCEPT - messages have been going back and forth between us to sort this booking out. They cannot book until I confirm. I want to. I (and the guests) have been spending a lot of time searching help, google, phoning the Dublin helpline (holding on for 30 minutes) no joy. This morning they inform me they are trying elsewhere. What is wrong with Airbnb. It seems the bigger they get the less they care about helping hosts and guests. I don't suppose THEY will ever read this.
The above paragraph has been on the Community Centre page for 2 hours. I thought airbnb monitored that and I would get a response. What can I do? I've been with airbnb for several years, and enjoy the guests, but the inability to communicate when something doesn't work if so frustrating. Someone should start airbnb again and go back to being the caring and sharing.
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Post by High Priestess on Apr 1, 2016 13:20:52 GMT
I agree with Andrew, it seems to be a case of you not understanding the difference between an inquiry and a reservation request and how to work with both as a host. Particularly due to the large number of hosts which exist now, Airbnb is not always able to provide quick customer service. In fact one of the reasons that customer service wait times are high in some places, is because hosts call to talk to customer service about questions that they could get answered by exploring the website, and learning how to manage their listing and how reservations work, from reading the site or exploring the website, and/or reading posts on the host community groups. Ideally, hosts would not be calling customer service to ask how to use the website, but rather when they had a real problem with their account or listing or with a guest (and there are a sufficient number of those instances to keep Airbnb customer service quite busy!)
You aren't the only host who believes that you can get a response from Airbnb the company by posting on the Airbnb Community Center. THis is a very widespread misunderstanding, and unfortunately it's one that Airbnb has helped create by appointing an Airbnb hired independent contracting company to moderate the host community groups, instead of allowing hosts to do that moderation.
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