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Post by rhonda on Dec 1, 2016 6:07:32 GMT
Today's Email:
"Coming December 6
Smart Pricing will soon apply to all open nights on your calendar, instead of 4 months at a time. To keep your price in a range you like for all nights, check your pricing and availability settings."
Certainly this could not imply that any "open nights" will revert to Smart Pricing unless we manually check each listing every other hour of the day.
I can't make any sense of this statement.
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Post by Maria Lurdes (Milu) on Dec 1, 2016 13:19:04 GMT
I took it to mean that your base price is the valid price used outside of smart pricing time limits. So smart pricing affects all rates within the four-month window, and your basic rate is what is seen for the far in the future dates. If you set your calendar to only take bookings x months in advance ( to prevent next year bookings), smart pricing wil only show up on the dates that are open and available. Something way in the future isn't an "open night" so smart pricing will happen only when that night becomes available.
Did I just confuse matters?
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Post by High Priestess on Dec 1, 2016 15:06:54 GMT
I think this Smart Pricing will only apply if you have Smart Pricing turned on. Airbnb isn't forcing Smart Pricing on hosts...at least not yet....
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Post by helgaparis on Dec 1, 2016 18:45:03 GMT
I read it contrarily to Maria Lourdes: till now, prices adapted within 4 months, from now on all prices are subject to smart pricing.
Which seems idiotic, as future prices are low for the tool. It takes in booking demand to calculate the prices and the demand is always low far ahead.
I do hope Deborah is right and it concerns only hosts using the tool.
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Post by rhonda on Dec 1, 2016 19:05:44 GMT
Thanks Maria,
I've never chosen to use their Smart Pricing but have looked at it and always hit the No Thanks button within 30 seconds.
I was under the assumption that you could change any one or more particular day to their 'smart pricing' if you really wanted to fill up your vacancies. I did not realize when you hit the USE Smart pricing it would carry forward for 4 months until manually changed back by the host.
Your explanation made perfect sense. I don't have a time limit for reservations, and it always makes me roll my eyes for people who book 9 months - 1 year in advance.
Now I understand that if one chooses to use smart pricing there must be a button to allow it to be active for 4 months; if your days are blocked (as you stated, the option to put a limit on how far in the future reservations can be made), it's not an open book anyway, it's blocked, off market, not 'open'.
My first thought is "Holy Cow!, I don't have a clue what tomorrow will bring, and here I'm making a commitment for an upcoming year?
Funny how time flies, all those bookings from 2015 for 2016 all took place with no glitches.
I wish they'd stop with these "Bright IT ideas", and go back to the beginning.
I can understand the discrimination issue, other platforms provide no information about guests; but now removing the listing Titles and Host pictures until you search into the listing is another ding-a-ling move.
As a guest, I'd like to know right upfront if the property is waterfront, cabin style, or a wood shed in CC's back yard (a little birdy told me there's lovely fluffy cuffs out there for a nominal fee); and if my potential hosts photo is showing her and her 15 great-grandchildren in surrounding tents, I would not consider this a good fit, and it would have saved me 25 key strokes before I could figure out how to get back to the main list and where I left off.
Thus, all this stuff they keep making up, is only making it less User Friendly, removing the capability of host's pointing out the Label or particular advantage of choosing their home.
I frequently ask my guests how they even found my listing, as I can't.
I suffer CRS, aka Self-proclaimed Selective Memory.
I don't remember any of their answers, except the repeats that can find it in their Trips.
Good clarification, Thanks a lot Maria.
Now: myy question of the day is how in the world did December 1st arrive so quick?
Many alohas to all,
A ponderer
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Post by rhonda on Dec 1, 2016 19:12:47 GMT
Aloha Helga,
Your comment reminds me of some older platforms for hotels that show the dirt cheap rate for an open night.
The "Best Price Guarantee" one, and Captain Kirk with his bidding on the room rates.
The wording was "Smart Pricing will soon apply to all open nights on your calendar, instead of 4 months at a time."
I'll guess we will have to wait 5 days to double check the pricing the guests are quoted and immediately phone AIRBNB if incorrect. Change it or let the guest cancel.
Oh, the Good Ol Days........
With much aloha,
Should have ignored that piece of useless information email
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Post by cc on Dec 1, 2016 20:06:11 GMT
According to Smart Pricing, the going rate I should pay my guests to stay here is $35/night. 😆
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Post by High Priestess on Dec 1, 2016 20:39:16 GMT
Ha Ha CC -- so the Smart Pricing shows a negative number for your house...your guests aren't supposed to pay you, you're supposed to pay them instead? Good one!  |
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Post by rhonda on Dec 1, 2016 21:09:19 GMT
CC......You better turn that baby on.
I'm moving in with you!
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Post by cc on Dec 1, 2016 21:12:52 GMT
Jeez, y'all--I have an older Hispanic lady who didn't respond with an arrival time--so had been seated in the sun for 30 minutes when I happened home....
Why didn't she try to phone me up?
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Post by cc on Dec 1, 2016 21:13:33 GMT
Ha! I can't afford you, Aloha!
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Post by rhonda on Dec 1, 2016 21:23:23 GMT
Probably so, at $35 per night, I ain't moving on out, ever.  |
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Post by rhonda on Dec 1, 2016 21:34:59 GMT
I just had a repeat guest did same thing. I was outside working, he emailed me at 5 pm to say they'd arrive around 7 pm. I grabbed tenant, ran down to the beach for sunset swim, quite exciting as I found the largest shark ever. Guest arrived all apologies at 7:30; my response was I was delighted he finally answered, but wished he'd written sooner, as I could have enjoyed more enjoyment myself. I don't get it either. My latest struggle with guests, which I've already figured out. Another emailed me stating he forwarded me his entire itinerary for his trip through the Airbnb message link along with my personal email. Say Wat?  I wrote back I didn't receive it, and just want to know his ETA to the home. Perhaps Santa will deliver a 24/7 reservation desk with employees, as my guests just can't seem to get it through their heads in my request for their ETA that I have a life at and away from home. |
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Post by cc on Dec 1, 2016 22:02:49 GMT
The lady has no idea that she can't walk all over town for her needs! Plus her cell phone has a connection port that I've never seen before, that they may not sell on this continent, so her phone's 💀.
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Post by Maria Lurdes (Milu) on Dec 2, 2016 2:54:12 GMT
Since we're talking about guests and ETAs - today I was at the supermarket happily looking down every aisle. It was only 2pm and although I had guests arriving, I knew that check-in time was 4pm so I had some time. As I'm trying to choose between Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia I get a call from my neighbor who tells me that two German ladies are outside looking for me. I ask him to pass the phone to them, and I tell the guest that it's not yet check-in time and as such, I wasn't expecting them. I'd be happy to welcome them once I'd finished my shopping, which I expected to take an hour. The frau seemed a bit agitated by this. I suggested that they go to the coffee shop down the block and I'd meet them back at the apartment in an hour. In the end, everything was ok but they were definitely bugged that they couldn't just come earlier and that they had to wait. Then they asked if they could check out late. How late, I asked? Oh, around 7pm. HA. Nope.
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