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Luckily, after being on this site for a while now, I quickly identified this one.
Pre-approval message:
I have a friend who owns a vacation rental and always prefers being contacted directly because of fees accessed to him through Airbnb. He offers discounts for that as well, any chance that’s the case for you as well?
My reply:
Payments outside of the system are not allowed under the AirBnB terms of agreement. As such, I will be forwarding this conversation to the Customer Support team for review.
The message by itself isn’t a problem. Tons of hosts here do exactly that. Maybe offer a discount isn’t the right word but they have a reduced price that reflects reduced costs? The problem was the guest blatantly mentioning it on the Airbnb platform. I would probably also report them but there’s no indication that the guest wouldn’t be a good one.