Soiled mattress.

Ian611
Level 4
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Soiled mattress.

Hello,

 We have been hosting since September 2019 ,never had any major problems until a work man booked in by his boss  through his account soiled the king size mattress beyond usable condition,six days before other guests were due to arrive. I called the employees boss to let her know what happened, she said this was unacceptable and would get it sorted ,she asked if it was urine I said I have no idea ,she said I will call you back in a minute any she didn’t the worker called me and told me he didn’t wet the bed and what was I going to do about it, I told him someone will have to pay for a new mattress.He said he put a rubbish bag with a leaking bottle of cola in it???Never heard back from the woman. I followed Airbnb rules and submitted a claim to her for over £300.As you can gather she denied the claim.A few days later I get a message from Airbnb saying I was outside the 14 day claim time blah blah,Airbnb where looking at her previous booking two months previously. I messaged Airbnb telling them they looked at the wrong booking.Anyway I have been messaging Airbnb and they said submit another claim for the correct booking,for goodness sake they have made the mistake in the first place.This woman sent me a nasty message saying I should have had a waterproof protection cover on.Granted I have them on the bunk beds never thought some idiot would pee the bed or spill cola on it.I managed to talk to an agent of Airbnb instead of a chat box.

This has been a nightmare for me and have lost confidence in their insurance policy 

We are still waiting to hear back from Ana and Chimi who were dealing with this case.

 I feel nervous about future bookings now and will definitely not be taking any third part bookings. I also missed the deadline to giver a review to warn other hosts,so any one in the Scottish Borders area beware of workers needing accommodation near Galashiels. I hole some admin sees this and can assist me in this matter.

Thanks for reading this rant.

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Ian611
Level 4
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

@Nick @Hi Nick,Thanks ,Yes just waiting on the payment coming through not sure how long it will take.

Nick
Former Community Manager
Former Community Manager
London, United Kingdom

Hopefully sooner rather than later @Ian611 

Ian611
Level 4
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

@Nick @Hi Nick ,just came through this morning, hopefully I won’t have the same hassle if anything else goes wrong with a guest it’s very stressful going through the process,my claim was denied at first as Airbnb had used the previous booking of this guest to act on,I had to go through the whole process of trying to claim the guest all over again . I thank you again for your help.