Guest review

Caitlin44
Level 2
Chicago, IL

Guest review

A recent guest of mine left me 3-stars for "communication" and indicated "host unresponsive". I responded to his review with, "Unreachable? I was in the space the entire duration of his stay."

 

I then followed up with him via message: 

"Hi Kenneth,

Can you please expand on how I earned a "three-star rating" for communication with the note saying I was "unreachable"?

Thank you,
Caitlin"

 

His response: 

"I texted you about the muffins and you didn't respond back to me. However I was being a bit too harsh and i shouldn't have gave you three stars because of that sorry"

 

I never received a message, text or otherwise, from him after check-out about muffins he left in my refrigerator.  I looked through my messages again today and see one that came through on my iMessages on my computer but wasn't on my phone that reads, "Hey I left two chocolate chip muffins for you"

 

Is there anything he or I can do because not receiving a response about him leaving two muffins behind for me is about the pettiest reason for leaving a host 3-stars?!

4 Replies 4
Marzena4
Level 10
Kraków, Poland

You can only respond to the review, @Caitlin44. Indeed, petty reasoning but in this forum you'll find a lot of stories about guests leaving unfair reviews...

// "The only person you can trust is yourself"
Sandra126
Level 10
Daylesford, Australia

I had a low comms review once because guest kept sending me messages to the ''no reply'' line! In this business, anything can happen...

Emiel1
Top Contributor
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

@Caitlin44 It could be even worser if the rating system was based on the amount of muffins left by guests...

 

Fred13
Level 10
Placencia, Belize

What did he want for leaving you the two muffins? A trophy?

 

@Caitlin44, this one needs to be added to 'The Annals of the Capricious Nature of Airbnb's Star System'. Unbelievable.

 

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