I was originally with cottages.com, as I began holiday let's long before the invention of airbnb.
You can ask them to NOT list your property on airbnb.
I have always found this disingenuous anyway, we pay thier extortionate fees for them to advertise to guests we can not get ourselves.
Plus we the owner only pays 3% ish on airbnb whereas we pay 21% via cottages.com. Why pay them more to do a job we can do ourselves for 3%.
It is THIER job to advertised to thier large alledeged unique database!
The reality is Cottages.com is a stack them high and price them low business model. We the hosts are only important to them on sign up. Cottages.com and the like want to be able to tell the public and thier stock holders that they have a huge amount of listing on thier books.
They only make thier money from the commission therefore with more listings they can afford to reduce the holiday prices due to economies of scale.
What you will find is the price to the host will be driven down. The "dynamic" pricing scheme is a con. In 12 years it only ever reduced my price.
They also did not upgrade my photos or listing description more than once in 12 years.
I have watched my income from them slide from obviously nearly 100% of my income 12 years ago to about £500 a year!
Needless to say I have finally left Cottages.com.
OH AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE RESTRICTIONS FOR MY OWN BOOKINGS AND THE PENALTIES FOR BOOKING MORE THAN ONE WEEK IN JULY AND AUGUST OUTSIDE OF THEM!
My advice? Get out, get out, get out!
All that said, views and bookings from airbnb have also declined dramatically at the moment, the sad fact is we are in a cost of living crisis globally. People may holiday once if at all. Price cutting won't even help much unfortunately (I have tried and tested that), you can't convert zero views by changing the price.
The reality is you are better being in charge of your own destiny. Airbnb at least allows you to set your own peak times, your own rates, your additional costs and to choose when you will and won't take bookings.
My suggestion save your 21% commission and invest in a WIX or equivalent self built website with payment platform via Stripe alongside airbnb, register with VRBO so you get pm Expedia too.
And then social media promote everything good about you!
Good luck!
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