Delayed notice of booking

[Rose1420]

Hi Folks,

I have just received a text message from air BNB for a booking tonight 19.1.2020.

The request was made at 1105am today 19/1/20

I received the text at 5.57 pm nearly 6 hours after the request was made and at that point had made other arrangements.

Has anyone else experienced delays in messaging? What would you have done differently?

I have written back to the enquirer,  declining and apologising. With consideration to rebook and a gift of local wine and cheese plate.

What else could I have done? this was my first booking 😞    It just was not possible to accept the very late booking