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[Jessica141]

A recent AirB&B guest damaged three things:

1)  Wore a very nice coat of mine and smeared Halloween makeup on the sleeve. It will need dry cleaned.

2)  Tore up a window screen femoving it and jamming it in sideways. It will need replaced.

3)  Ruined a portion of the laminate by leaving a garbage bag with leaking beer cans/bottles in the foyer where it leaked into the seams, bucking them up. Have a repairman coming this week to see if he can match the floor or if the whole floor will need replaced.

Do I submit multiple different damage claims or lump them all together into one request?  AirB&B info regarding this is unclear.

[David126]

10 minutes later!

1 guest

$22

less per night for Dec 26-Jan 1

1 guest

$24

less per night for Dec 27-31

1 guest

$21

less per night for Dec 27-31

Lowering your price could help you get more bookings and actually lead to more earnings over time. As your total bookings increase, your overall earnings can as well.

[Fred13]

@Cormac0It is all about personal responsibility; some rely on their own skills, others expect someone else to make decisions for them, solve their problems and even guarantee them success just because they are 'there'. It shouldn't work that way, and happy to report, it doesn't. It would be highly unfair to those willing to give more effort.

The price suggested by 'Airbnb' is actually done by a computer, not some live human being, meticulously going over each their 4,000,000 individual listings. It is simply a 'suggestion'; sometimes they may make sense, but some are outright laughable. I see you haven't gotten the 'joke'. 🙂

For many, Airbnb exposes our place to ~millions~ of potential guests and charge a not-so-whopping 3%-5%, depending on your cancellation policy.  Their massive exposure saves us having to depend on standing by the sidewalk handing out flyers or having to pay for expensive ads in individual newspapers or magazines like it used to be in the 'good old days'.

No one is 'forced' to be with them, nor is there any plausible way anyone can loose money per se being with them, since they are not charging anyone a 'subscriber fee' to be with them in the first place, like other agencies do, or use to do.

What you probably mean is that bookings through Airbnb eliminated your ability to rent a bigger block of time (long-term), a loss to you really because you are not getting enough bookings from Airbnb to fill your place all the time. On that basis, you are correct, Airbnb is definitely not working for you, unlike is the case for millions of others.

[Cormac0]

@Fred0

I see you charge Euro 528 per night for two people and each additional person above that is Euros 133. 

So, if I wanted to book a 28 day stay in your property, it would cost me circa Euros 14,000 

I can see why you're so happy with Airbnb and I also noticed you calendar seem to be completely book out into 2019

Fred your property is in a unique location not surrounded by thousands of competitors and the likelihood of thousands of micro islands springing up is extremely rare, essentially you've got a monopoly!

While the only business Airbnb is bringing me is below cost selling.

[Fred13]

@Cormac0A 'monopoly' by virtue of how hard is to do and the effort it entailed to do it. Three nearby islands doing the same thing, or trying to, charge $1500, $2500 & $3100 per night. We are at only $595, but booked for 2 years ahead. The suggested 'Smart Pricing' you may wonder - $193!

I can appreciate how tricky things become when there are no limits on the amount of hosts in a given area, all encouraged to charging less and less to the point that no one is making money.  Such a situation requires then ingenuity and individualism; your long-term choice makes total sense, you are breaking away from the 'herd'. LoL

[Cormac0]

@Fred13

Mooo (in case your wondering thats the sound a cow makes)