It is plain SCANDALOUS and OUTRAGEOUS that Airbnb is keeping our calendar HOSTAGE !!!
Guest verification is NOT my problem. AIrbnb can verify as much as they want, but our calendar dates should NOT be blocked for 12 hours or more (without even ANYTHING being booked).
While the dates are being blocked by an unverified potential guest, NO ONE else can book these dates.
After 12 hours, the guest might not even be eligible for the booking, and meanwhile we have lost multiple opportunities of being booked.
Additionally, when this happens, we have NO CONTROL whatsoever as far as keeping or canceling this temptative booking. We are STUCK with a FICTITIOUS reservation that might OR MIGHT NOT translate into a solid confirmed booking.
I am appalled at the fact that Airbnb feels it is perfectly fine to take the liberty to have FULL CONTROL on something which is NOT theirs: OUR OWN calendar!
I urge all of you to send feedback (as I did) to Airbnb for this system to be revised, and our calendar ceased being blocked during a guest verification.
I guarantee that NO OTHER booking platform is blocking your calendar for verification.
This is NONSENSE. Airbnb does NOT own our properties or calendar. They are only a booking engine. Nothing else. They have NO RIGHT whatsoever to block our calendar.
I urge all of you to send feedback, petitions, protests, law suits, etc, against that QUESTIONABLE (in terms of legality) process.
I just don't believe Airbnb has any right to keep our calendar HOSTAGE. They do NOT OWN our properties!