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@Robin4
You did it again: You said something positive about airbnb 😎
You ask:
I personally am not unhappy, I'm fine. I have a great relationship with all of my family members, I don't have any trouble with my neighbours, I hardly have trouble with my husband, I don't have any financial problems and I'm making money with my cottage. So there's not much left to complain about in my life.
We all have a tool called dashboard. If You take a look at it You'll find a section in wich airbnb tells us what objectives we have to achieve, they show us percentages as to what extend we have reached the goals, and if we do not reach these goals, they are threatening us to remove us from search results. Airbnb is criticizing us 24/7
Also, there is something called „reviews“ on airbnb. Guests are complaining all the time in their reviews about something, in most cases triggered by the fact that they didn't read the listing description.
Us, the hosts, did not start complaining. Airbnb and the guests did.
You said that one guest couple brought flowers for Aide and a bottle of wine for You. That happened to me several times as well, and these were not airbnb-guests. The reason that You have all these positive experiences with airbnb-guests is, that airbnb is almost the only platform You are doing business with.
I started renting my place 19 years ago. Airbnb didn't even exist at that time. I started listing on airbnb in 2018, up untill then I had already hosted thousands of guests, had all kind of positive experiences with said guests and in 2018 I already was in the top 3 out of 700 vacation rentals in my area. I don't have to „thank“ airbnb for anything. I was successful before they existed and I will be successful after they get bought up by Amazon.
Why should we praise airbnb all the time? Because they a refering guests to us and forward the guests money to our bankaccounts? Well, that's their job, that's what they are getting their service fee for.
Should we really praise each other when business is just „as expected“? Shouldn't we reserve praising the company for situations when things are "better that expected" or "much better than expected?
Robin, people who complain on this forum are not unhappy people. They complain because there is something to complain about. If there would be nothing to complain about, noone would complain.
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