Thanks for sharing your feedback! Very interesting regarding the jump in bookings after you called with your concerns, I wonder what that’s about... that seems especially scary if they have that much control over your ability to get bookings or not. I have to assume that was just random coincidence bc if not I will lose all faith in the ethics and integrity of Airbnb and I’m not quite there yet with them, still giving them the benefit of the doubt that they will come out on the right side of all of this soon. 🙂
What are you meaning regarding the $1 and the 9?
Regarding my advice to you, I think you are in the unique position of the group that plus may be helpful for - the not yet superhost group. Bc in that case, it is actually quite hard to get visibility. So I would probably just hang on until you can get Superhost bc Plus is probably going to be better for you than nothing. Although from what you are saying it hasn’t helped, I would say that theoretically it should be at least a smidge better than nothing. I believe you have to reset everything up with plus if you opt out and decide you want to go back. They just told me “it wouldn’t be easy to come back” if I chose to leave, not exactly sure what that thinly veiled warning meant, but I didn’t really care to press that anymore bc I knew I wanted out and wouldn’t be coming back.
But I will say this... as I mentioned in my previous post, my rentals prior to Plus were fantastic with hardly an open day in a month, but during the plus they went way down, but now that I have quit plus my booking have remained way down as if I’m still on plus. This has really puzzled me over the last month and makes me really wonder, now that you say you called up and then you randomly got 4 bookings, if they have some way to manually manipulate the algorithm when they want to. I would really hope testing plus out didn’t mess with my search visibility but I’m seriously wondering about this now that you share your experience. I was already planning to set up on vrbo this weekend bc others I know that have both Airbnb and vrbo get 85% of their bookings through vrbo. I never thought I needed another booking site bc I hardly had an available day on my Airbnb calendar... this was, until I went on plus and then quit...
Keep us posted, this is all beneficial info to older and new hosts alike - we are all in this being affected together! 🙂