Post by High Priestess on Oct 15, 2015 6:04:47 GMT
Florencia
Repeated listings
I need your advice on this matter. I found that in my area there are hosts with repeated listings and believe is just not right and kind of spammy. So for example one host posted his property and then his girlfriend posted the same property under other host account. Same pictures, same calendar availability, same everything. Is this right to do? I haven't think on creating an account for my husband to get twice exposure. I think the site will look very bad and will ruin the search experience if everyone posts twice his property.
Fleur (fleur)
flag them.
Deborah (High Priestess)
I dont' think there is any violation in doing that....to me it seemsa bit similar to listing your place both on Airbnb and VRBO and TripAdvisor...I think there is going to be a limit of how many related people can list the same room/apartment. Perhaps two, perhaps three. I would not imagine that ten people would all list the same place.
Actually I think this problem sort of self-corrects. The more people list the same place on the same platforum (and even if only two do that) I think the "worse" this looks to prospective guests browsing for a place to stay. For one, if a guest sees a place being listed twice, the same place, by two or more people, the first thing that may occur to them is what occurs to me -- the thought of fraud or a scam. THe thought that one of these people is the real host, and the other may be a scammer. That kind of scam wouldnt' actually work well on Airbnb since hosts dont get paid until guests really arrive , so if there is no real place the host is offering, a fake host won't get paid...but guests dont know the system well enough to know which scams could work, all they know is it looks very fishy if they see the same place under two different people's accounts. So people who do that may actually end up having the reverse effect to what they intended -- scaring people off rather than attracting more interest with more "ads".
Think of it this way, too -- if a good number of hosts are doing this, you could smile and get mileage out of it by stating in your listing that , in contrast to other hosts who list the same place multiple times under different "host" accounts so that the guest doesn't know who is the real host and who is the phony one, you only list your real place once.
Repeated listings
I need your advice on this matter. I found that in my area there are hosts with repeated listings and believe is just not right and kind of spammy. So for example one host posted his property and then his girlfriend posted the same property under other host account. Same pictures, same calendar availability, same everything. Is this right to do? I haven't think on creating an account for my husband to get twice exposure. I think the site will look very bad and will ruin the search experience if everyone posts twice his property.
Fleur (fleur)
flag them.
Deborah (High Priestess)
I dont' think there is any violation in doing that....to me it seemsa bit similar to listing your place both on Airbnb and VRBO and TripAdvisor...I think there is going to be a limit of how many related people can list the same room/apartment. Perhaps two, perhaps three. I would not imagine that ten people would all list the same place.
Actually I think this problem sort of self-corrects. The more people list the same place on the same platforum (and even if only two do that) I think the "worse" this looks to prospective guests browsing for a place to stay. For one, if a guest sees a place being listed twice, the same place, by two or more people, the first thing that may occur to them is what occurs to me -- the thought of fraud or a scam. THe thought that one of these people is the real host, and the other may be a scammer. That kind of scam wouldnt' actually work well on Airbnb since hosts dont get paid until guests really arrive , so if there is no real place the host is offering, a fake host won't get paid...but guests dont know the system well enough to know which scams could work, all they know is it looks very fishy if they see the same place under two different people's accounts. So people who do that may actually end up having the reverse effect to what they intended -- scaring people off rather than attracting more interest with more "ads".
Think of it this way, too -- if a good number of hosts are doing this, you could smile and get mileage out of it by stating in your listing that , in contrast to other hosts who list the same place multiple times under different "host" accounts so that the guest doesn't know who is the real host and who is the phony one, you only list your real place once.
