Signed just now. The new cancellation is a joke.
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Vera, unfortunately it isnât a joke. And Iâm pretty much sure that they will extend this everywhere.
I meant joke as in ridiculous. Airbnb is playing with us hosts.
I donât depend on Airbnb as my income but if I have booking I definitely am not going to do what I love most that is travelling. I donât want to decide to not travel because I have booking for next month and then out of a sudden it gets cancelled with no penalty for the guest. Thatâs why I have strict policy.
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I have been looking at other platforms the last few days.
And I would advice Italian hosts to have a serious look at Tripadvisor.
They have far better conditions for hosts than AirBnB, including the ability to upload your own rental agreement.
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You all should also look at Glampinghub. Not sure how much action they get in Italy, but Italy is listed.
They are similar to Air - they charge 4% to host and add 6-12% to guest - but you can have a non -refundable cancellation policy.
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dear friends @Vera @cabinhost @Chris and other ones in this thread, I opened a listing in homeaway.
Paying for one year.
Finger crossed and thank you for your support, please consider to share the petition, may be that airbnb will think about it.
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I looked at them, but they are mainly about camping, not holliday rentals.
Their website is marketing to appear to be about camping, but there are homes, cottages everywhere on their site.
I applied through their system and have not heard back.
Hopefully they contact you and approve. I replied back to the marketing specialist yesterday (who apparently didnât seem to comprehend any of my email). I havenât heard back yet. But when I called for customer support it just went to voicemail. So I am thinking they really have limited staff until they get enough bookings.
Then - they will just try to be bought up by Air or Homeaway, or whatever. SighâŚ
Reply here, maybe? Sign the change.org petition regarding the new Airbnb cancellation policies in Italy - Airbnb hosts forum
That thread is an attempt to centralize responses. You could also post the message you wrote to the forum there.
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I think you can do that, but the problem is: how to enforce it?
Airbnb cannot say âyou 2 cannot enter direct agreementsâ, because it would be in violation of their role of âmere intermediaryâ that they do love so much. The problem is: if the guest cancels 20 days before arrival and asks Airbnb for his money back, how would you avoid that? You would need to ask for a payment outside the system, or set your price to 200% the real price (so that 50% payment would become your 100%), but this would have a dramatic (negative) impact on your reservationsâŚ