AirBnb are making me charge at least $10?? "Your minimum price is too low"??

[Mitch8]

Hi everyone - I need to find guests for my room fast, but AirBNB is not allowing me to charge less than $10 per night.

When I try to go into the calendar to reduce the price, I get this error message : "Your price is too low. Your minimum price must be higher than $10."

It is not because of smart pricing because I have that turned off - and when I try to turn it on and set my minumum to below 10 I get the same error message!

Can someone please help me with this riduclouslness? Why is AirBNB hurting my business/livelihood by forcing me to set an artifically high price?

[Hamlet1]

I agree with Mitch

I have shared rooms in my hostel, and the average price for a bed in a dormitory room in my city is 2-4 $.

So it's very expensive and not real to have bookings for 10$.

[Helen427]

Hamlet & Mitch, maybe you should accept & charge higher rates to help balance out cost of living expenses.

Your situation highlights why we all have challenges etc with the blanket approach pricing we are subjected to regardless of the country we live in.

Some countries have higher costs of living than others and it's all relative to how we price our listings.

All the best

[Kat84]

I have checked your profile and your rate is minimum 10 dollars now. Is it because of Airbnb minimum price restrictions? 

[Nina75]

How can you go wrong for $10. I use to travel to Istanbul every weekend to buy clothes and fabrics for my business.