When do I get to rate Airbnb?

Allison2
Level 10
Traverse City, MI

When do I get to rate Airbnb?

I'd love a response to this from a community leader @Lizzie @Stephanie 

 

Every guest has the opportunity to rate me. I have the opportunity to rate every guest.

 

When do either of us get to rate Airbnb?

 

You take nearly 20% as a booking fee, but we don't get to rate you on value.

Your messaging system stinks. You broke the ability to respond to relayed texts. Sometimes notifications don't come for HOURS after sending, but we don't get to rate you on communication.

You have published policies which CS agents may apply or ignore as they wish, but we don't get to rate you on accuracy.

You hold me as a host to extremely tight deadlines (get this quote, reply to this within 24, 48 hours or else) but you don't hold yourselves to the same standards. It might be days, weeks, or never. Where do I get to rate the timeliness of your reply?

 

The ONLY time I've been asked to rate Airbnb was related to a particular agent's performance on a ticket. This isn't fair to the agent, when my issues are with the company and their policies. It's not fair to set the agent out as a sacrificial lamb.

 

You give hosts an entire dashboard of performance metrics. Where are yours?

You got rid of the "Host Voice" discussion board. Where are we to give feedback?

 

Why aren't you aren't willing to hold yourselves to the same scrutiny you give hosts?

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Pat271
Level 10
Greenville, SC

Type “Airbnb yelp” into your web browser’s search. Interesting reading!

Sudsrung0
Level 10
Rawai, Thailand

For those of us who are not in America and get paid in our currency they make a fortune in the bad exchange rates obviously in their favour

Alan199
Level 3
Guyhirn, United Kingdom

I don't quite understand that. 

 

I'm in the UK; my prices are in £ and I get paid in £..... there is no exchange involved!

 

I have also visited your lovely country and used Airbnb there as a guest. I booked in THB and therefore presume my host was also paid in THB.... is that not the case?

I'm struggling to understand your point.

Hey @Alan199 I think you must know how people gets money from divises, right? Different prices to sell and buy, approximative translation in the prices, etc.

@Ale113  if you set your prices in € and your bank account is in € then you will get exactly as much as you want minus Airbnb host fee of 3%

Lauren677
Level 1
Miami, FL

Had a first time HORRIFIC occurrence with a guest couple staying in my home this week 3 DAYS AFTER scheduled checkout who refused to leave. Air bnb took 2 of these days to even respond to the matter. We went through over 10 “case managers” who literally always said “we will be calling you back within 2 hours about the matter”..... and you guessed it, they never called back. Police were called 3 times. Guest vandalized our home. Customer service to even “SUPERHOSTS” is terrible. Clearly not in our best interest.

Wow, would like to hear more about this.  Did you have another Airbnb guest arriving (I guess in that case they would have reacted quicker)?
What exactly transpired and how did you contact CS?
What do they recommend you do in the future?
Did you feel physicdally threatened?

Sorry that happened to you thanks for posting about it.

 

Ale113
Level 10
Barcelona, Spain

Absolutely true.

 

We could also rate them not just in the speed for communication but also for payments.

Kaylee18
Level 10
Hamilton, Canada

@Allison2  Love this. Such a good point to make. 

Kira32
Level 10
Canary Islands, Spain

Who is in for a vote?!

@Kira32  everyone is, but it will never happen 🙂

Dianna2
Level 2
Boulder, CO

I so agree Allison! We should be able to rate ABB, the way we get rated. Such a great point

Susan17
Level 10
Dublin, Ireland

Even if you could rate Airbnb, on Airbnb, @Allison2 , it's not like they'd pay the slightest bit of heed anyway! 😉

 

Plenty of other, more effective ways to make one's feelings on the company known though. Lots of consumer review sites out there, such as Trustpilot, Consumer Affairs, Sitejabber, AirbnbHell etc., where Airbnb's ratings range from 1.4/10, to a whopping 2.5/5... 

 

https://ie.trustpilot.com/review/www.airbnb.com

 

https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/airbnb.com/amp

 

https://www.airbnbhell.com/airbnb-host-stories/

 

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/travel/airbnb.html

Susan17
Level 10
Dublin, Ireland

And if hosts really  want to make our grievances heard, there are official channels and business/financial regulatory bodies and authorities in every country, that we can (and should) report to, if necessary..