One way the "double-blind" review process may be unfair to hosts

I love on Amazon when a question is asked about a product and about a dozen people answer the question with “I don’t know.”

[We don’t have that problem here.]

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That’s because purchasers of the product get a mass emailing of the question, sort of a ‘help out a new purchaser’; then, those who do not understand what is happening (that their answer will be added to the ‘answers’ for that product) say stuff like ‘I dunno, I only have had it for a week’ etc.

Sure we do, people just use a lot more words.

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No, but one thing a host can always do is write a response to a guest review. I had a guest say my wifi was too slow for zoom calls (untrue, I do zoom calls on the same wifi) so I wrote a response saying her laptop may have picked up a virus.

I believe every unfair, untrue, misleading or just-confused-about-something review warrants a response from the host. Otherwise, when I see a review like that as a guest without a host response, I take it to mean the host either doesn’t care (not good) or the report is true (probably not good).

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LOVE IT!!
As I am not up on these forums much, I have missed out on a lot!
Thanks for posting.

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They forgot to add in the people that reply “Don’t use light bulbs. You should put in skylights and candles instead”.

I was just reading another forum and someone asked about deciding between A and B as accommodations and asking about the road conditions to B. Someone replied “Stay at C - it’s perfect!”

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