AirBnB has sent out a letter to hosts outlining how it plans to help them during this COVID-19 pandemic. AirBnB has been widely criticized by hosts for providing guests with full refunds through 5/31. AirBnB has set up $250 million fund to help hosts and will be providing 25% of what hosts would normally receive through their cancellation policy for check-in between March 14th and May 31st.
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Anyone having problem with receiving those refunds? We had a reservation in March in Florida that was covered by that cancellation policy. we cancelled it – been like 3 weeks or so- still haven’t been refunded for it! How does it work? Are we supposed to do anything extra? Did other people receive their money back?
I think it’s very generous of AirBNB to do this. Why should property owners profit at someone else’s expense just because this virus happened to come along? I’ve been using AirBNB for six years and over 100 stays; I will continue to use them once this all ends.
A $250,000,000 fund to help real estate agencies?
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
AirBnB should just shut down. This service is too sketchy
Easier to do after raising $1 billion more in funding https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/airbnb-raising-1-billion-amid-fallout-from-coronanvirus.html
Another PR stunt from AirBnB, since they’ve always incentivized hosts to offer generous cancellation policies. Most properties now only have last minute cancellation fees so this “good gesture” is pretty useless.
Airbnb has shown their true colors along with United. After things go back to normal, I’ll be avoiding these two companies as much as possible.
hopefully AirBnB goes belly-up and we can restore the housing market
Airbnb is just connecting supply to demand. It won’t go belly up and even if it did someone else would step in just as quick.
Guessing the bloodshed will really start in June then.