I called customer service last night to call it to their attention that my total number of views for my listing has more than dropped in half and that I thought it was because of the change in the search format. For the last three years I have booked up my room every night of the month year round, but this month and last month I only booked 17 nights.
She was very nice and listened to my complaints and the only suggestion she could offer was to come over to community center and talk to other hosts about it. I am now discovering that I am not alone in my dissatisfaction with the new search page. I also just discovered that there is no longer a graph that show my views like there used to be so I can’t even prove how drastically it dropped. I only chose to contact you because you were the community center manager.
If everyone is as upset as I am about the new changes to the search page do you think it would be of any help to start a petition to put it back the way it was and have all the unhappy hosts sign it? I don’t think my business can last if I don’t get the number of views up to what I used to have .
I know a lot of the hosts don’t like the emphasis on the “special properties” but the thing that I dislike the most is that you can’t bypass the choices for weekend, week, or month. Instead of my day price showing up it shows up as a weekly price and that just doesn’t help me.
I would think that it’s hurting Airbnb as well if their hosts aren’t getting the business. Do you have any ideas of who I could contact?