Thank you for your response, Mike. I'll try to do a better job of explaining: Before this past Wednesday I could select any future dates that were still open on my calendar and then I would check the AirBnB pricing recommendations for those dates. Then, depending on what they recommend I would raise or lower my prices or just leave them as they were if I thought my decision on pricing was better. I really don't care about the surrounding competition and what they charge. I never made my decisions about pricing based on that, even though did take the time, occasionally, to become I aware of their prices. Our place is unique enough that we get the amount of business we want, at the prices we want. Perhaps that is not savvy business enough for other hosts but it works for us. Now I cannot do that anymore. Yes, I can change my prices manually any time I want, it's true, but I prefer to change my prices myself, based on the information AirBnB used have available if I checked on their recommendations. Now, it seems my only options are to manually set all my prices on all the days that are open, based on my own experience or allow AirBnB to raise or lower my prices according to their algorithm and be vigilant enough to change their pricing back to what I want it to be if I don't agree with them. I am skeptical about this change in both the long and short run. It seems to me that it will possibly become the case that, instead of our pricing driving AirBnB's algorithm, we will now have AirBnB determining, more and more what we will charge. Furthermore, I suspect that because there is a mounting ruckus about AirBnB prices being too high, AirBnB wants to lower prices to the company's advantage, not the advantage of the hosts. It seems like they have eliminated some of my options without adding any of value to me. Maybe I've misunderstood. If so and you can help me correct my thinking, please do.
