Airbnb sent me several emails asking me to post a review of an experience/tour we booked through them. I would have been happy to do that. This is the email I sent them, when I was finally able to get a hopefully workable email address:
I would have been happy to give feedback on this experience, but your completely dysfunctional system made that impossible. I received at least three emails from you asking me to post a review. Each time I tried to do that, I encountered the same impenetrable, multi-step barriers:
- The first step asked to me to login to my Airbnb account; fine, I did that.
- The next link asked me to click on an “I am not a robot” captcha; also fine.
- This led me to a page where I could book a new reservation, but not a review, with the header: “Unable to perform action. Please try again later or contact support if you need immediate assistance.”
- Unfortunately, contacting support requires logging in, and each time I attempted to do that, I was connected back to the same page: “Unable to perform action. Please try again later or contact support if you need immediate assistance.”
- I tried to reply to the original email but of course it is a “no reply” email address.
- I was only able to get the email address I am using now by going to a website aptly titled “Airbnb Hell.”
That allowed me to call a phone number in Northern California, where after 7 or 8 minutes on hold I was able to reach a customer service representative. She went around and around for several minutes attempting to verify the original reservation, which was done through another family member’s Airbnb account.
Please remember: you sent me the original email asking me to review the experience. If you cannot locate or track that, that is a failure of your system and should not be my responsibility. After several painfully futile minutes wasted on the phone, I asked the representative: can you give me an email where I can share my concerns with the company, yes or no? I had to ask directly at least four times before she gave me this email address. Next time I think we’ll use one of your competitors.
Never hever ad this experience and have stayed in several places through Airbnb,….you sure you know what you are doing?
“She went around and around for several minutes attempting to verify the original reservation, which was done through another family member’s Airbnb account.”
So it wasn’t your reservation originally? You shouldn’t be the reviewer anyway. Sounds like a software glitch. You have said nothing about your experience with the Airbnb property itself. All I hear is whining. Thanks, I don’t want you booking my place, anyway. #firstworldproblems