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He’s been in the business for many decades and now retired. Probably has forgotten more about hospitality that most of us will ever know.
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Oh … and native speaker? He’s Australian so that is debatable 
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Okay, I’ll debate.
Australian is a nationality, not a language. Australia has a huge number of immigrants, I think it’s about a third of the population. Regardless, I agree that one’s poor English isn’t a determination of what their native language is.
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Yep. OK. I read some of his/her prior posts. Looks just fine to me. The Aussie bit was clearly tongue in cheek, with the emoticon …
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Well, 
debatable. You know this with the Kiwis. “We are two nations separated by a common language.” Or something like that via John Cleese.
@Jefferson you’re not as funny as you think you are. The OP’s syntax wasn’t Kiwi or Aussie or Brit. Check the use of verbs and basic sentence structure as well as using the term “standover.” Common misuse by a non-English primary language speaker or writer.
Hosterposter, Thanks for making your post about the topic and not me. Personally I think the attack and fall of Airbnb will not come from a new look alike, but from push-back from those existing businesses they took market share from.
Airbnb is a hotel disruptor. Disrupting the hotel market also disrupts Bookings Holdings business model. I believe Bookings Holdings are attacking weaknesses in Airbnb from both the guest and host angle to protect and grow their profit base. Bookings Holdings have the mussel to play a very long game.
I think Expedia saw how Airbnb had also taken market share from operators like Homeaway and Stayz etc who were caught napping. They saw the opportunity to acquire and encircle Airbnb with competitors. It seems that they are gathering data on how to better attack Airbnb from a host perspective.
I could be wrong, but if I am right these are powerful forces attempting to claw back market share. After struggling in the early days Airbnb grew fast and big. How could it now fall? Well do not forget Kodak, PanAm, TWA and many more big and mighty. Time will tell. Perhaps the private equity backing the Airbnb founders saw this coming and took the IPO exit.
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I was going to wait a few days to make sure that the money was in our bank account before posting this. However since this post appears to have degenerated into incorrect assumptions as to how I deal with guests which are unnecessary and not helpful to people here for the topic of Airbnb actions, I will post the information now.
Lets conclude and close this topic with the latest information.
- On July 9, the message from the UK payments or compliance team was they would advise me when they would start paying us again.
- Next Airbnb guests were arriving on July 12, so the payment should be issued on July 13.
- I heard nothing from the UK team, but on July 13, as per normal received an advice that payment for guests that arrived in July 12 had seen sent, with the normal note it will take up to a week to reach your account.
- Today July 14, I received a message, presumably again from the UK team saying that the licence details they had for me were out of date ( When I registered with Airbnb I would have uploaded my licence at the time, that expired back in 2015) . There was a link to upload my new licence. This took me to what seemed a personal verification upload page, a different verification page to the July 17 link which said it was a business verification.
The takeaways
A. I suspect there are two verification areas a personal and business one. Be aware, it might get you into trouble like me. Today July 14, was the first time they gave a link to this personal page.
B. Be prepared for not only confusion and incompetence on the part of Airbnb but also unnecessary harsh treatment if you are a host.
Unfortunately in my opinion, they are too big and too popular with so many potential guest to ignore.
some fair points.
Theres definitely room for a new airbnb, but I am not a fan of bookings.com. For 3 reasons, the website is old and clunky, the hosts do not have enough control and it caters mainly for full house rental as opposed to single rooms.
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If you say so. The OP is a published author in Australia and has lived and worked in Melbourne for many decades. I do not claim any particular expertise in Australian syntax, and again, was merely making a little joke.