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I donāt need help closing my Airbnb account. Here is my problem, which I would like to post on airhostsforum:
I am an Experiences host for nearly 2 years with hundreds of bookings and nearly 300 reviews. However, today I was surprised to see that my account got locked due to security reasons. All of my upcoming reservations have been canceled, and I was not paid by Airbnb for my Experiences that happened today (value 1000 USD approximately)
The explanation from Airbnb regarding the closure of my account is absolutely ridiculous:
āYour account was removed because we determined that reservation TAT95QQN is associated with fraudulent activity.ā
The funny thing is that I am not even able to find reservation TAT95QQN, this is not even a booking of mine.
Over the past months I am getting a huge amount of messages from potential ācustomersā who ask to communicate outside Airbnb. I report them as these are scammers. I am also getting scam bookings. I receive an email of a new booking, seconds later it gets canceled. Some time later I get an email that that booking was involved with a fraudulent payment. So Airbnb has a lot of issues with fraud.
But now I am falsely accused of being involved in one of these fraudulent payments, and it is truly insane. I am not getting the right support from Airbnb, as their emails seem to be standard responses. I am a victim of Airbnbās incorrect judgment here, most probably done by an automated program. This mistake from Airbnb is costing me a huge amount of money, all of my future bookings got canceled with a value of 30000 USD. This is a big part of my business, and Airbnb is causing the downfall of that.
What can I do? I have already done the following:
Responded to the Airbnb Trust team
Contacted Airbnb help on Twitter, no help. They just said I need to wait
Thanks, Iām very glad to see this forum. Weāve been hosting guests in our home in Brooklyn NY for many years, but only recently began using AirBnB. So far so good.
I have a question to post but donāt see how to do that so Iāll put it here: anyone have experience with registering their STR in NYC? The new law requires registration unless you have a minimum 30 day stay. Weāve been doing 30+, but are interested in opening up for shorter stays; but Iām apprehensive about getting involved with the city bureaucracy if I can help it. Thanks for any experience anyone can share.
Not sure if there is a way around NYC regulations as I am not familiar with it, but for other cities with similar restrictions, Iāve seen hosts open their calendar for 30+ days for visibility, and then try to lead guests to book offsite for shorter stays.
You should be able to create a new post now. Due to spamming and trolling we have limits on posts by new users. Youāve been temporarily approved to make a new post by admin.