Hey Airbnb shill, I noticed you don’t respond to the nightmare stories that don’t involve “VIOLATING AIRBNB POLICY” and are just Airbnb being terrible… why not? I do kind of enjoy reading the bs you come up with. Think of it as a creative challlenge!!

Such ‘transparency’ would not surprise me in the least. For some reason, online companies seem to think they can dick people around even more than high-street. Best of luck!

A buyer should always “beware,” of course. The buyer was vigilant. What’s not mentioned is that after the refund was refused, Airbnb changed the website so that the long-term policy was unburied from a back page in small print (and had been overridden by the woman host in her personal email to said buyer when he asked her because he could not clearly determine the return policy from the site) was CHANGED/moved to the front and made visible. This is also documented. It did not matter. Airbnb and the woman decided to be dishonest probably knowing in their “bigness” they could get away with it because going Small Claims would have cost the buyer even more and he’d give up. At the end of the day, they live with their shoddy integrity, and we’ve found a different B and B to work with!

The host quoted to you their short term policy. I hate they made a mistake. If the host doesn’t frequently do long term rentals they may not have known.

The text follows- I couldn’t post a screenshot.

You had the information provided to you before booking & immediately after. You can’t blame Airbnb or the host if you clicked through the screens.

That was expensive mistake.

Btw did you ask the host to consider refunding you for any nights they were able to rebook?

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