Hi Folks,
Can someone tell me how to escalate an issue? Currently, I'm "escalated" to Res 2, but have never, ever received a proactive contact from Airbnb about a scammer who stayed at my house. I've been trying to get help 18 days. 18 days and not a single proactive response from Airbnb. When I've called in I've been told someone will contact me in 15 minutes, 1 hour, and within 24 hours; to date I've never been contacted by Airbnb support.
A little backgound; I only accept guests with at least 3 positive host reviews and no negative reviews because of some unfortunate experiences I had when I first starting hosting about four years ago. I accepted a guest by the name of Olusegun who had 11 positive review which were strangely all from Florida from February 2019-April 2019. Somehow he "canceled" his stay on the 2nd day of a one week booking. I have a strict no cancellation policy, Airbnb never contacted me about his cancellation, and he stayed until the 3rd day of his booking. I never would have known any of this as Airbnb NEVER CONTACTED ME ABOUT THE CANCELLATION. I only knew about it because I needed to pay bills and didn't see the money in my account. Additionally, this guy showed up an hour and a half early for check in, smoked in the house (totally against the rules), and brought two of his friends with him (the booking was for one guest not three).
Also, Airbnb disabled my ability to review Olusegun prior to the 14 day period. So I can't even warn future potential hosts about what a scammer and fraud this guy is....
Coincidentally, my Airbnb account was hacked at the same time, a new PayPal payout method was added and made the primary payout method on my account. I caught this right away, deleted the new payout method and changed my passwords. What a PITA.
I still don't have my money. Have never heard from anyone at Airbnb about this issue. Every time I call I get the run around. I am so frustrated and disappointed. Does anyone have any advice on how I can get through to someone at Airbnb who will tell me what the hell happened with this booking (I feel like it's a total inside-job scam), and get me my money?
TIA