Right now Airbnb only supports the host by sending a few emails to show sympathy and explain over and over why everyone should refund —these don’t mean anything. Here’s time to show some real support:
Use the interest money Airbnb earned by not releasing the rent to us promptly—that’s a return on other people’s money, and the amount they made on host’s money is none of us can even imagine!
Don’t say that’s all used for running the website. Because you still collect large amounts of guest serivce fee—or at least use the guest fees collected (hundreds of dollars each time and I’m booked over 100 bookings a year for the past 3-5 years, that’s a huge number if you added all up)! Use some of these on us for now will really mean a lot to us!
So I propose: how about when the host refund the money, we do half refund and Airbnb matches the other half?
Again, just talk is cheap and won’t help us through this difficult time!