airbnb bashing threads, real or do they need to do?

OP, you make the assumption that everyone's experience will be identical. AirBnB is a service vender. The provide communication between landlords and tenants for temporary rentals. AirBnB is a third party to the contracts. The majority of the experience is based upon the first two parties, the landlord and tenants. Good landlords and good tenants have good experiences. If either of the first two parties is not so good, then the experience is not going to be good.

I'm one of the ones that has had about 95% great experiences on AirBnB, but I have had one really bad experience with a really bad landlord. I know that it can happen. I do what I can to prevent it; I only pick Superhosts, I read the reviews and only pick hosts that have lots of recent good reviews, check dates. But even then, sometimes the experience can be a little off, but I at least go into the contract with open eyes about what's been mentioned before in reviews. I also know that there are ways around reviews (reviews only get posted if both the landlord and tenant review each other within a certain time frame after the rental).

So, it doesn't surprise me at all that there are quite a number of people who have had bad experiences on AirBnB. I can think of many times where I have not picked an airBnB because the listing or the lack of reviews or whatever has set off my Spidey-sense. I've taken a pass and moved on to another listing. But someone else may have needed to save the money and gone for the cheaper listing or only had the choice of the one place with very few reviews and then they could have gotten the lemon of a landlord that would make the experience bad.

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10/28/2022 10:49

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of airbnb bashing threads, some seem really fake, should they reported and deleted?

Two threads were reported, I don't know if there are more, but only one of those was anti-Airbnb. The other was from an Airbnb owner. You can report any thread for any reason. If I agree with you, I'll remove it. But, I don't know what I'll be able to do if it is just some random posting reporting their bad experience. That's completely allowed.

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10/28/2022 10:56

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OP are you an Airbnb host?

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10/28/2022 11:26

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of airbnb bashing threads, some seem really fake, should they reported and deleted?

Two threads were reported, I don't know if there are more, but only one of those was anti-Airbnb. The other was from an Airbnb owner. You can report any thread for any reason. If I agree with you, I'll remove it. But, I don't know what I'll be able to do if it is just some random posting reporting their bad experience. That's completely allowed.

Thank you. We will continue to report the trolls and suspicious ones.

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10/29/2022 02:05

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you an Airbnb host?

I’m a regular person who can believe that AirBnB has gone downhill, but I know that hotel owners have teamed up with hotel worker unions to stick the knives into AirBnB, and it certainly looks as if that’s what’s going on here now. If not, sorry, but that’s how it looks.

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10/29/2022 05:45

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Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of airbnb bashing threads, some seem really fake, should they reported and deleted?

Two threads were reported, I don't know if there are more, but only one of those was anti-Airbnb. The other was from an Airbnb owner. You can report any thread for any reason. If I agree with you, I'll remove it. But, I don't know what I'll be able to do if it is just some random posting reporting their bad experience. That's completely allowed.

Thank you. We will continue to report the trolls and suspicious ones.

We? Who are the we?

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10/29/2022 06:52

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP are you an Airbnb host?

I’m a regular person who can believe that AirBnB has gone downhill, but I know that hotel owners have teamed up with hotel worker unions to stick the knives into AirBnB, and it certainly looks as if that’s what’s going on here now. If not, sorry, but that’s how it looks.

I don't know, on an anonymous site where everyone complains about everything, the amount of protesting and reporting for a couple of threads complaining about AirBnB seems more suspicious to me. Nobody does this for threads about bad flying experiences, for example.

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10/29/2022 08:56

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP are you an Airbnb host?

I’m a regular person who can believe that AirBnB has gone downhill, but I know that hotel owners have teamed up with hotel worker unions to stick the knives into AirBnB, and it certainly looks as if that’s what’s going on here now. If not, sorry, but that’s how it looks.

I don't know, on an anonymous site where everyone complains about everything, the amount of protesting and reporting for a couple of threads complaining about AirBnB seems more suspicious to me. Nobody does this for threads about bad flying experiences, for example.

there are a lot of people here with specialty hang ups

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10/29/2022 08:59

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I was the OP of the post about cleaning fees and expectations on checking out. Not a troll. I’m a VRBO owner and it was legitimate questions based on a prior thread.

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10/29/2022 09:04

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP are you an Airbnb host?

I’m a regular person who can believe that AirBnB has gone downhill, but I know that hotel owners have teamed up with hotel worker unions to stick the knives into AirBnB, and it certainly looks as if that’s what’s going on here now. If not, sorry, but that’s how it looks.

No, it doesn’t look that way. It looks much more like Airbnb and/or Airbnb hosts are teaming up to get critical content deleted.

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10/29/2022 09:05

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of airbnb bashing threads, some seem really fake, should they reported and deleted?

Two threads were reported, I don't know if there are more, but only one of those was anti-Airbnb. The other was from an Airbnb owner. You can report any thread for any reason. If I agree with you, I'll remove it. But, I don't know what I'll be able to do if it is just some random posting reporting their bad experience. That's completely allowed.

Thank you. We will continue to report the trolls and suspicious ones.

We? Who are the we?

lol!

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10/29/2022 09:22

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I've only had good experiences with AirBnB, but I've read enough about its reluctance to deal with dishonest hosts in travel industry literature to know it's a huge concern. Same for VRBO, and all the rental facilitation sites, really. It's an industry that's very hard to regulate.

Do your homework: look for Superhost listings, read the reviews carefully and notice what they're NOT saying that they should have said, look at the cleanliness ratings (has to very close to 5), and if it's too good to be true... skip.