@Huma0 Thanks for writing. Actually, the sum I received is $8.20 which I find funny at this point. $8.20 is not even worth the time of having an AirBNB staffer calculate that amount of money and issue the payment. In the spirit of fiscal responsibility, AirBNB should have not bothered. What a waste of their time and ours!! I feel like AirBNB is using lawyers and bean counters to create fuzzy math to cover their liability. The disingenous response needs to stop. VRBO honored my cancellation policy which means I earned 100% of my VRBO cancellation policy. With AirBNB I earn 12.5%? That is an 87.5% difference! If VRBO can honor their contract agreements with hosts, AirBNB can too.
What AirBnB cannot keep doing is extending any deadlines and offering flexible COVID cancellations. This is a new world order and if people are going to travel they are going to have get travel insurance, choose a listing that has a flexible cancellation policy, or not travel. AirBNB assuming that a host has to bear 87.5% of the risk, AFTER, AirBNB did not honor their contracts with us prior, is more poor judgment and abusive treatment.
As a response, my partner and I delisted three listings and have no regrets. One is still left. I blocked the calendar in the far future for the last listing. We might take a guest a couple days before they need it--to reduce the risk of a cancellation but we might just pull the cord and drop the final listing all together.
I cannot imagine this is going to play well for AirBNB. AirBNB has been trying to gobble up marketshare for their IPO at all of our expenses. I think City Council's and the Federal Government are going to wonder about the value of AirBNB now that AirBNB hosts are filing for unempoyment---if they filed a Schedule C. Most of us did not and reported it as rental income and are thus ineligible. Most AirBNB hosts are not legally a busines--some city council's do not require it like DC, as long as we get a rental permit, which I have--so many AirBNB hosts like me are also not eligible for the PPE or other small business relief programs. So this is why I am shocked AirBNB is continuing to not look out for their own. There is nothing for most hosts--no relief--and AirBNB is leaving them stranded. Sending an $8.20 payment? Really?
I just cannot even describe what it feels like to get that payment.......it is a feeling that involves an eye roll combined with a certain finger--- needing a shot of something strong like whiskey and I do not even drink hard liquor like that. Whatever that feeling is though is a feeling I will remember and will not forget. AirBNB has screwed us over and they keep digging a bigger and bigger hole.