RESERVATION REQUEST IN DOLLARS ON A MUCH HIGHER CONVERSION RATE : EURO X DOLLAR

[Mateus-And-Chloe0]

Hi,

I've just a had a reservation inquiry for the new year's on our property and the guest is interested in reserving and is a profile that we would accept. 

But there is the question, they ask me to make a special offer of 900 dollars from the 26/12/2015-01/01/2016 , when in fact the total for the reservation with my actual rate in euros is of 815 euros. Using the daily conversion of today 815 euros = 875 dollars and she told me that for her it appears as 1125 dollars.

Could you please explain why? 30% more , seems a lot.

Thanks for your quick response and we might loose the reservation if this is not solved.

Regards,

Mateus and Chloe

[Vicky0]

Can you see the airbnb fees on your end when it shows as €815? If you just added up your nightly rate and came to €815 then it will appear higher to them when they try and book as there will be at least 10% extra in fees that they will pay. Plus any extra person or cleaning fees you have

i just googled their policy and they charge a 3% conversion fee. So if €815 is around $870 plus about $26 for their conversion fee, the guest should see around $900. 

So so based on that I imagine the guest is wanting to pay the advertised nightly rate and not any of the fees. So if you want to let them pay $900 you will probably have to lower your price 

[Marcus0]

When it comes to NYE bookings there is no point making a lower price.  If you are competive already for the special event you will get another booking for the price you want.

[Terry11]

How did you resolve this?  I have a guest arriving on June 1st paying in Euros.  The request arrived as almost $13K (Euros to dollar).  Approx 10,585 Euros = 13,000 Dollars.  So I should be paid the the converted rate of $13K dollars but yet the final reservation booked at $10,585 dollars?  What am I doing wrong?

Terry

Green Valley