@Jennifer1421 @Laurence-and-Jean-Michel0
I honestly thought that there was nothing left that Airbnb could do that would shock me, but my jaw hit the floor when I heard Chesky come out with that. It's just so stunningly inappropriate for any company to even dream up such a brazen, preposterous plan, let alone for a multi-billion dollar global corporation to announce it to the world as one of the four pillars of their "rescue package".for their own service providers.
Not only that, there are so, so many ways this could backfire on the hosts it's allegedly meant to "help". I can imagine guests who are trying to figure out how they're going to pay their own bills, suddenly receiving a begging letter from a host they might have stayed with for a single night several years ago (and forgotten the host even existed), sitting there going, "WTAF...??!". Or guests that had never even met the host thinking, "Are they taking the p*ss?" Or maybe even spiteful, vengeful guests that the host had thrown out receiving it, and sending nasty threatening messages (or worse) to the host in return. Just so many ways it could go terribly wrong.
And knowing Airbnb, the emails to the guests would probably be worded along the lines of, "Susan's going through a tough time right now and really needs your help, so in the spirit of Airbnb, she's asking if you could find it in your heart to make a charitable donation to her"
Just NO! Not in my name.