Airbnb fake token support of host, ambiguous and without accountability.

[Maria481]

Has anyone else received this ridiculous message?

Airbnb will share in the costs of COVID-19 cancellations

Even though your guest canceled under the extenuating circumstances policy, we want to support you in these tough times with a payment from our coronavirus emergency support fund—it should arrive in your account within 4 weeks.

No amount mentioned???? This reservation was about $2000.00. According to my cancelation policy I would have seen $1000.00.

Has anyone received any payouts on this kind of thing?

[Susan17]

@Ute42

Well I'll be sticking to my own basic primary school method, that's for sure! Smarter people than me can play around with all that other complicated stuff 😉

[Ute42]

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@Susan17 

You need the 0.50 to get to the 1/8th of nightly rate x number of nights.

Susan, relax, think about it till tomorrow. There's no need to rush anything.

[Susan17]

Lol. Nope. Still not grasping it. I give up! I could never do a bloody Rubik's cube either.. 

[Ute42]

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@Mika8 

Kannst du dir bitte mal die Unterhaltung zwischen Susan und mir durchlesen und ihr erklären wie das geht?

@Susan17 

I have just asked Mika in Switzerland to explain the situation to You. She's a biologist and the leading expert for mathematics in the german CC.

[Susan17]

Oh wait, I think I get it now! I'm still just going to stick to dividing by 8, and then working out the 3% though - all those other numbers are giving me brain freeze! Pleeease don't make me have any more maths lessons @Ute42! 😂

[Ute42]

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@Susan17 

Yes, You've got it now, after having kept me awake half an hour in the middle of the night.

You know what You are!

[Susan17]

 5 letter word, beginning with B, and ending with H..?? 😏

[Maria481]

May I point out the absurdity of needing a mathematics expert to understand our payouts. 

[Susan17]

.. and that's only the relatively easy ones, @Maria481! We'd need Einstein to figure out all the reasons Airbnb has concocted for all the missing payouts that have been mysteriously excluded from the scheme! 

[Mika8]

@Ute42 @Susan17 

Both formulas ar correct ...

(nightly rate) x (# of nights) x 0.97 x 0.25

works with strict cancellation policy and a cancellation less then 7 days befor check-in or accordingly with moderat or flexible with cancellation on the day of check-in (or probably earlier by moderate) ... when you normally get paid in full.

(nightly rate) x (# of nights) x 0.97 x 0.50 x 0.25 

works, when the cancellation is more upfront and the amount received would be only 50 % (normally).

the 0.97 is what you get normally -> 97 % of the booking (3 % for airbnb)

0.50 -> 50 %

0.25 -> 25 %

0.50 * 0.25 = 0.125 -> 12.5 % .. what we get now (if)

12.5 % = 1/8 of 100 %

... or you could take the amount of the mail with the booking conformation, take away your cleaning fees and then take 1/8 of that.

... but I stall on the 5 letter word  : D

[Susan17]

Aaaaah! Thank you so much, @Mika8!  You're a much better teacher than @Ute42 - that one has no patience!

Now I totally get it! I was sooo confused because the person who gave me the formula I put down originally is a bit of a maths whizz, but it didn't even occur to me that it was the full 25% formula I had, rather than the 12.5% one.

Best if I just stick to words in future, and leave the figures to Ute! Both of us are banned from using the 5 letter word on here though, it gets bleeped out whenever we use it 😉

[Ute42]

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Hi @Mika8   ,

thank you for being helpful with this math-problem. I can only tell you that I'm having a lot of headaches with this @Susan17   in Dublin. Nothing specific, every time it's something new which causes problems.

[Mika8]

..ok @Ute42  .. I got it  : DD