Notice this conversation was created over a year ago and airbnb provided one cut-n-paste response and nothing more. They aren't looking at this thread. They don't have a ticket open for it. Instead of posting replies to this conversation, flood the customer service mod's inbox with new complaints. Posting here does not a lick of good. If the service wants to waste your time with busted 'filters', waste their time sorting through hundreds of new complaints they have to respond to. Make sure they know their arrogant algorithm is cutting into their bottom line and losing them more revenue than it's gaining them. That's the only way to make them care. Go over the top and out of your way to smear this business practice wherever you can because that is the only thing businesses like this listen to. Unfortunately, being a reasonable person and complaining once won't accomplish much. You have to be a complete **bleep** to get noticed by scumbag companies that try to pull things over on consumers. You have to rake them through the coals until they pay any attention to the problems with their service, then they try to play the victim and make you feel like you did something wrong. Such is the way of capitalism. All we as consumers can do is take away their business. It's up to them to see what they're doing is wrong.
So stop responding to this thread so you can all feel good about complaining together. No more "I agree with @ so and so" posts. It's obvious no one from airbnb is following this issue. Go flood their inbox with complaints, and if they don't fix it, take your business elsewhere. VRBO has its flaws, but at least the search filters work for the most part.
