AirBnb would like us all to maintain an 88% or higher number when it comes to the “basic requirements” of accepted reservations. My question or comment to this is as follows.
We had another third party booking attempt (most likely innocent enough, someone booking for a family member) however since it goes against AirBnb policy and therefore goes against our clearly stated policy and practice also.
I immediate declined this booking request, clicked the “I’m uncomfortable with this request” and further explained to AirBnb (on the automated system) that we were decking the request based on the AirBnb policy of not accepting third party bookings.
Not only does this decline “count against me” but we are double penalized in the “accepted reservations” requirement even though the request went against Airbnb’s own policy.
In our short time of hosting, we have declined many, third party booking attempts and our accepted reservations percentage falls very short of 88% plus the negative hit on our algorithm for declining.
There should be a “declining due to third party booking violation” button as a choice when AirBnb wants a reason why you are declining bookings.
My rant for the day, it’s just frustrating to have a bunch of booking requests that are not legitimate, count against my percentages.
Regards/Andrea and Glenn
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