Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years

Re:Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years by treeman79 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:12PM (#34821614)

I listed on both. Had six months of back to back bookings with Airbnb. One day a request for info came in on Vbro.

I had completely forgotten it was even listed there. Six months and one inquiry. I promptly deleted the listing.

Glad to be done with AirBNB, but it really helped out at a bad time.

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Re:Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years by lxm on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:29PM (#34821926)

I have used both VRBO amd AirBnB for many years now.

When COVID-19 travel bans proliferated in early 2020, AirBnB proactively refunded my money for a reservation that was nominally no longer cancellable.

VRBO told me to reach out to the host, which turned out to be this apartment rental agency that would ghost my emails for a few days, then offer future credit, then told me to get in line as they have many customers, and eventually processed the refund 3 months or so down the road.

Needless to say, I no longer use VRBO.

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Re:Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years by zwirbl on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:19PM (#34821750)

Have you left the business altogether or do you acquire customers a different way/via gmaps and the likes and a website? Asking because we managed to get most of the people to book directly via our homepage, using booking.com and similar only if we have to

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