I agree. Two lots of friends who successfully ran B & B in their homes in Whitby tried many times to persuade me to join as a host- as I have run our B & B for 4 yrs. I joined mid June 2017 and had an exciting 4 weeks- we had many international guests who wrote brilliant 5 star reviews. I told my friends, but they said they left air bnb and joined booking.com, because it started great but bookings went right down because airbnb prices are very misleading. Now we are not NEW we have less bookings. I would have been Superhost by now- but airbnb said I have to wait till October 1st- the end of our summer season in seaside Whitby!! Marilyn