Anyone else seeing a huge increase in Host Referral Price?

[Letti0]

Last March our host referral was $125 as of last week it had increased to $300. Today it's now $360. To me this indicates that they are losing a lot of hosts in my area. What about your area? Are you seeing huge increases also?

[Douglas109]

You get an extra 20% for being a superhost, but yes they've definitely ramped up growth efforts with these incentives.

I think that just like the ride sharing apps are always "hiring" drivers, airbnb will never cease to aggresively recruit new hosts, whether or not existing ones are leaving or not.

[Peter1247]

Letti, mind if I join here as a noob and kindly ask you to check what the terms and Refer page says for you now? I've been back and forth for hours with AirBnb support right now because I referred someone for a $360 bounty and I only received $300 in the end. They are adamantly claiming that it's been $300 since 26th of March 2018. Because that's what the Terms and Conditions page claims (https://www.airbnb.com/refer/terms_and_conditions)

Meanwhile I found countless articles and mentions of hosts ( including a couple from you, thank you ) about the bounty being $360. I just wanna know if our Terms or Refer pages are showing a different amount (you as a Superhost, me as having lost it). I have recently had to cancel on a booking and lost Superhost status, which would explain the reduction from $360 to $300 (20% as Douglas said) - but considering the eligible booking was done when I was a Superhost, I would be entitled to the full amount.

[Mark116]

It has been $360 here for a long time, which doesn't make much sense since hosts are treated as easily replaceable by the company.

[Letti0]

@Peter1247  It's $360 since August I believe. In the terms they state that they have the right to payout what they want. I don't think too many people actually get the full amount from what I have read here and on other forums. From the terms: Whether a payout is due shall be a decision made in the sole discretion of Airbnb.