#airbnbhelp

[nityarawal]

"Shallow," Sing-Along @ladygaga & Bradley Cooper @2bradleycooper "A Star Is Born," (Fangirled glorious movie/songs 5 years! Stayed at @AirbnbHelp to watch! Lol @netfix)

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#SongOfTheDay2 #SOTD2 #Shallow #CensoredSongs #LadyGaga #BradleyCooper #AStarIsBorn #Ma

[grindinworldwide-blog]

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[optimizemybnb]

Thank you @cohostmarket for featuring my services! CoHostMarket fills the gap Airbnb created when they stopped focusing on cohosts. Sign up for a profile on their website, it's very easy. #cohostmarket #airbnbcohost #airbnb #airbnbhelp #airbnbexpert (en Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3dronJNOr/?igshid=lgxhbxrk1f2h

[strmasters-blog]

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Connect with #ShortTermRental #Entrepreneurs worldwide & be a part of #STRMasters #Community to learn new strategies, promotions & tricks to get your #business back on track amid this #COVID19 Outbreak.

Join us on: http://bit.ly/str-community

[tsmhm]

A tweet

RT @Dr_AlexM: In the interest of my own personal safety as well as public safety, @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp: Can you explain to me and everyone else why the host who sent me this message is still active on your platform? This person is clearly a threat and should not be allowed to host guests. https://t.co/JJHA1mRwLQ

— ErinLuhks (@ErinLuhks) Jun 19, 2022

[spamreports]

Multi fisher, 3 targets 🎯 @PayPal 🎯 @PNCBank_Help 🎯 @AirbnbHelp

⚠paypal·co·uk·*·icu

URLs @openprovider_nl @openprovider VPS Garant-Park-Internet LLC

Same threat actor, same registrar, this time switched to multiple vps providers.

They switched hosting today:

from 45.143.138.68

to 62.109.22.187

New host notified:

[optimizemybnb]

I was recently featured exclusively in #HouseBeautiful. Basically it's me trying to scare off would-be #AirbnbHosts 🤣 We have plenty of mediocre hosts. I don't know how these folks find me. If you have recommended me as an expert source, I highly appreciate it. I don't have an outreach team so it's valuable. Thank you! #airbnbexpert #airbnbhost #superhost #industryexpert #howtoairbnb #airbnb #airbnbtips #airbnbhelp #vacationhome (at Hanoi, Vietnam) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_V2_QhJwQ8/?igshid=vp5gdyq4cbhf

[strmasters-blog]

Now, it’s more important than ever to build a guest persona. Who is more likely to stay at your short-term rental? Most of the international conferences, events, and shows are getting canceled and because of the severe travel restrictions around the world, international travelers won’t be booking your rental space for weeks or even months to come. A lot of states and cities are adding additional measures and lockdowns.

This is the time to target locals. If you have an Airbnb/Short term rental in an urban area, then promote it as a space where young adults can self isolate after arriving from an international trip. People with aged parents can choose to book your space to protect themselves and their loved ones by isolating one another.

Nurses,medical stuff and people working in sectors that offer essential services and other medical professionals are also looking for hostels and other spaces where they can put up after a day at work so that they do not risk infecting their loved ones. Make sure that your business info reaches them.

Read more on 👉 http://bit.ly/sustain-airbnb . .

[captain-metronews24]

Help! There’s a Bear in My Airbnb

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[voyanyc]

@Janonautas Algo muy parecido me pasó a mí en NYC 😤 Me cancelaron el alojamiento justo antes de coger el vuelo hacía NYC, no me ayudaron en nada. Llegué y no tenía donde ir! Eso cuento en este post: https://t.co/RcyAnTWTzV Muy Mal #Airbnb, Muy Mal.... @airbnb_es @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp

[airbnbfestivals]

If a guest goes through Airbnb’s refund process for COVID19, are hosts affected? E.g. those reservation funds are taken from the host and given to the guest

My question is: has any host been affected by a guest going through the COVID19 refund process? In other words, has Airbnb taken that money from you and provided it to the guest if the guest’s claim is approved?

For context, read below:

I’m a guest that has a reservation for my brother’s college graduation but that is no longer taking place due to its cancellation for public health safety.

I now have a reservation, about 1.2k in total, that I don’t know what to do with! I’ve asked the host to provide a full refund if they can and I let them know I understand if they cannot. I’m aware this is difficult for both parties. I also let them know I want to avoid going through Airbnb’s COVID refund process (I’m aware of the steps) and they asked me to please accept the credit Airbnb is offering as this is a financial blow to their family. I feel terrible! But if the refund process doesn’t affect them, then I’ll continue with that.

I am also asking them about their understanding on the issue but wanted to get different answers from this community and open it up for discussion.

Just as a final side note:

The way companies respond during a crisis will ultimately impact them in the long run. From what I can see, there are many disgruntled firsts and hosts and something very bad could be brewing for Airbnb. If your business model doesn’t account for the people that keep you in business (both guests and hosts especially) then what kind of business are you running? Tweet your stories to @Airbnb and @airbnbhelp with #airbnbrefund for visibility and proper action from the Airbnb team.

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[essentialmassagetherapyllc]

@Airbnb Passing on my experience with this “service”. My wife and I arrived in Barcelona to meet a “host” to let us in to an apartment we had reserved through @Airbnb we arrived early. While waiting a loud, extended fist fight broke out. Screaming, sounds of furniture banging into walls, objects flying off the balcony were all features of our wait. We contacted @HOSTMAKERCo & described our issue. Literally the conversation ended when I was told by one of their employees “ this is just part of the experience We contacted the apartment owner, and, in the moment, she agreed to refund our money. Then, after not seeing a refund in our account we made several attempts to contact Oana, she refused to answer the calls or return messages or emails 45 minutes spent with @AirbnbHelp on the phone, I was assured they would help, and be contacted within the hour. 6 hours later after no contact, I took to Twitter to get some attention. Only getting any response after jumping into a thread about another complaint @Airbnb eventually gave a response. The owner emailed you... Oana responds that @HOSTMAKERCo inspected the property and everything was ok When was this? We saw the host rep while walking away with our luggage on foot to find a hotel. He never entered the building. I watched him walk away.So @AirbnbHelp response amounts to “the owner says no refund” then silence. @Airbnb business model apparently doesn’t include being responsible for any thing. It is just fancy classified ad listings with no more assurance you will be treated fairly than a Craigslist ad. Of course, in hindsight, this a consistent @Airbnb experience. The previous week staying in a different city, it took 3 days to get hot water in the apartment we stayed in. The listing for the apartment didn’t mention it was located in a graffiti covered neighborhood, and there was a commuter train less than 20 steps from the door. @Airbnb is just another Silicon Valley skimming billions of reg hard working peoples money, pretending to provide so some sort of service if everything goes well then ok. If you have some sort of problem, they give you no back up of any kind insult to injury wasted time. (at Barcelona, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDdn_FhUZ4/?igshid=v4mv3x270b2p

[megied]

A tweet

@AirbnbHelp how does an Airbnb Luxe reservation not fall under the COVID19 policy? Do you really want me to travel to Bali under these circumstances?

— Megied Alkassab (@megied) March 16, 2020

[tamboradventure]

Is It Time to Break Up with Airbnb?

Posted: 10/08/19 | October 7th, 2019

There is no denying that Airbnb has changed how we travel. It got people out of the hotel/hostel quandary, gave locals a way to monetize their extra rooms and earn more income, and got tourists into different parts of cities, spreading the benefits of tourism around to a wider part of the community.

It wasn’t the first company to do this, but it made this kind of travel widespread and socially acceptable. The idea of “renting someone’s home” is now seen, not as weird or unsafe, but as a perfectly normal way to see a destination.

I’ve been an Airbnb user since its early days (it began in 2008) and have had some wonderful experiences using the service: the Swiss couple who made and shared dinner with me, the folks in Paris who left me wine as a welcome gift, the retirees in Tours who put a candle in my breakfast croissant for my birthday, the couple in NZ who gave me veggies from their garden, and countless other wonderful experiences where I got to meet locals and learn aspects of life that I might not have otherwise. (I’ve also hosted some really fabulous people too. The site works both ways!)

Over the last few years, I had gotten out of the habit of using Airbnb, instead staying with friends, in hostels, or hotels on points. However, while I was on my book tour over the summer, I decided to start using the service again.

I was nervous about doing so though.

From overtourism to hosts with multiple listings to companies using it to run hotels to a general “whatever” attitude toward complaints, there are a lot of problems with Airbnb. It is no longer the whole “people renting out their room for extra money” service it markets itself as.

I’ve read all the stories. I’ve seen the data.

With over six million listings, Airbnb is one of the biggest booking sites out there. In the first quarter of 2019, it booked 91 million room nights. By comparison, Expedia booked 80.8 million.

But I figured there had to be some gems on the site.

And what kind of travel expert would I be if I didn’t know Airbnb’s current state?

I went in determined to not rent places that were not people’s homes — that is, any rentals run by folks with multiple listings or property management companies, which have the effect of raising rents for everyone. While Airbnb has a lot of problems, the “commercialization” of the service is the biggest.

The growing number of people buying property just to rent it out on Airbnb is driving rent up for locals1 and forcing them out of the city. A recent study from the Institut d’Economia de Barcelona shows that rent in Barcelona’s most touristy areas has increased by as much as 7% between 2012 and 2016.2

Furthermore, in 2016 (the most recent data I could find), true home sharing, where the owner is present during the guest’s stay, accounts for less than 20% of Airbnb’s business in the United States; 81% of Airbnb’s revenue nationwide — $4.6 billion — comes from whole-unit rentals where the owner is not present.

A search on the website Inside Airbnb shows that a high percentage of units are rented by people with multiple listings: in Venice, out of 8,469 listings, 68.6% of hosts have multiple listings; in Barcelona, out of 18,302 listings, 67.1% of hosts have multiple listings; and in Los Angeles, out of 44,504 listings, 57.8% of hosts have multiple listings.

That doesn’t really scream the “just a person renting out their extra space” model the company likes to tout.

And I found avoiding that a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Even having spent hours trying to weed those kinds of homes out, I was fooled in London, DC, and Santa Monica: those listings existed solely to be rented out on Airbnb. Those pictures that made it seem lived in? Faked. (And the place in London, which was supposed to be a room in a guy’s house, was just a room…but in a house for Airbnb guests.)

All that time spent trying to do the right thing…and I still failed!

As this happened over and over again, I thought to myself: Is it time to break up with Airbnb? Was using Airbnb was worth the cost it exacts on residents and the time spent trying to find gems in vain?

Being a responsible traveler is really important to me — but not contribute to the problems Airbnb causes.

Airbnb is one of the biggest drivers of overtourism. It has created a lot of new accommodation for travelers, which in turn contributes to higher tourism numbers.3 On the one hand, that’s good: cheaper accommodation = more tourists = more revenue. But, when unregulated and combined with the issues highlighted above, increased tourism kills the very places we love. It becomes a vicious cycle: more tourists = more money = more properties on Airbnb = fewer local residents. However, thankfully, as I highlight in this article, a lot of locales are fighting back and beginning to restrict the service.

Moreover, the company doesn’t really take action against hosts behave badly. From spying on guests to denying last-minute bookings to substandard conditions to fake reviews, complaints against hosts go unattended until they become news stories like this:

Airbnb quietly shut down a top host amid scathing reviews, but hundreds of guests were left to stay with him

Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem

A disturbing video of a violent Airbnb host is reigniting fears of racism in the sharing economy

‘Which monkey is gonna stay on the couch?’: Airbnb host kicks out black guests in racist exchange

British couple spends $11,800 on Airbnb rental in Ibiza that doesn’t exist

As such, I’ve found the customer service to be really terrible and slanted toward hosts. There are a lot of protections for hosts but not guests. If I cancel, I have to pay a fee. If the host cancels, there’s little punishment. When talking about my recent experiences with Airbnb on Twitter and Facebook, I found I was not alone. A lot of people have noticed a decline in the quality of the service lately. They still use it, but I was surprised that so many people didn’t do so as much as they used to. Here are some examples:

Super cool how consistently my Airbnb bookings for conferences (WWDC, now XOXO) get canceled by the host the week before the conference (presumably to make more cash by raising the rate).

— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) September 1, 2019

My Airbnb host cancelled 48 hours before I was supposed to arrive for a two-month stay. Now I am left homeless and have received no help or compensation. This is ridiculous @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp

— Raimee (@doitallabroad) August 31, 2019

There are plenty of people who are still having wonderful experiences with the service. As a whole, I still like it. There are some hidden gems, wonderful people, and cool experiences on the website, especially when you get out of the big cities.

But, given the social problems it causes, the poor customer service, the hassle of dealing with hosts, the crapshoot in quality, the cleaning and other fees that make the service’s costs on par with traditional accommodation options, I’d often rather just book a regular hostel, hotel, or B&B. Those are simple, easy, and straightforward. (And, unlike the Airbnb I had in D.C., will come with rooms that actually lock!)

I don’t want to contribute to overtourism. I don’t want to price residents out of their homes. I don’t give my money to a company that doesn’t want to be a responsible stakeholder. (I haven’t even got to the lengths the company goes to fight against oversight, taxes, and regulation.)

And I don’t have all day to spend finding a room!

And I’m not the only one having second thoughts. Look at this survey I conducted on Twitter about using the service:

In light of my recent tweet on @Airbnb (and some ones from the past), I'm curious:

Do you use Airbnb?

— Nomadic Matt (@nomadicmatt) August 31, 2019

Those are not numbers I’d want to see if I was Airbnb. It’s clear, for most of us, the sentiment has shifted away from the service as it’s become more commercialized.

I’m not fully ready to give up on the service quite yet. I still think you can find some hidden gems and meet some great people.

And maybe their upcoming IPO will change its ways by bringing in new stockholders, activist investors, and more attention (stockholders don’t like negative news stories that lowers their stock price!).

Then again, maybe it won’t, and Airbnb will only get worse and I’ll have to stop using it altogether.

Only time will tell.

But I think the situation is bad enough where one needs to be wary of the service and use it with extreme care.

It’s not the same as it used to be.

Notes: 1: Since my team and I have been using the website a lot this year, we’re updating our guide to Airbnb to reflect changes in the service. It will be out in a few weeks.

2: You can also find another study done by California State University here.

3: Airbnb is not the prime cause of overtourism, but it definitely contributes greatly; the company’s desire to turn a blind eye to the problem is part of my problem with it.

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[30atv]

Tweeted

SO.... you book a private room for 3 days, at a reasonable rate but the host comes back to you with a change to require additional $4,000 !! Screams of scammer ! @airbnbhelp @Airbnb #lefthanging #noplacesleft #screwed pic.twitter.com/WPqnw3ULc1

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[spamreports]

Multi fisher, 3 targets 🎯 @PayPal 🎯 @PNCBank_Help 🎯 @AirbnbHelp

This is a repeat offender, doing this same scam multiple times now (more than 2400), always with this registrar Open Provider!

proof:https://urlscan.io/search/#paypal.*.icu

⚠ paypal.co.uk.7dsj.icu

⚠ paypal.co.uk.7dsj.icu

https://urlscan.io/search/#ip%3A45.143.138.49

https://urlscan.io/search/#ip%3A62.109.22.187

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There are the details of my previous findings, same criminals:

📅 January 15, 2020

https://www.spamreports.report/post/190270001901/httpspaypalcouk6cdaicu

📅 January 25, 2020

https://www.spamreports.report/post/190452896356/multi-fisher-3-targets-paypal-pncbankhelp

📅February 02, 2020

https://www.spamreports.report/post/190601218616/multi-fisher-3-targets-paypal-pncbankhelp