Airbnb price jack after booking

[anonymous-user]

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[Wills2]

I thought I'd read that they didn't allow that kind of thing, as it happened a lot when the Eurovision was put on in Liverpool, IIRC they came down quite hard on those that tried to price gouge.

BBC link to the story, might be different as those hosts were cancelling and re listing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64951147

[sausage76]

You should have emails from when you booked with AIrBNB stating the final payment amount and what date that is due on.

I'd send them that as a starter as its changed and they can't do that as stated above.

[Harpoon]

sausage76 said:

You should have emails from when you booked with AIrBNB stating the final payment amount and what date that is due on.

I'd send them that as a starter as its changed and they can't do that as stated above.

Exactly - I just checked back through my e-mail for AirBNB bookings I've made. I have payment receipts (emails) clearing showing the price breakdown and the deposit I've paid.

[Wills2]

I have a friend who is a host and when I mentioned these kind of tactics he has stated you can't do it once it's booked and deposit paid, although that might have been his view rather than a system block on doing it,

[havoc]

Harpoon said:

Exactly - I just checked back through my e-mail for AirBNB bookings I've made. I have payment receipts (emails) clearing showing the price breakdown and the deposit I've paid.

Have you sent them to AirBnB?

Have you called e.g. Citizens Advice? Or your c-card company?

...because this seems a clear case of breach-of-contract. Of course, you may not be able to force performance of the contract from the other side, but getting your deposit back shouldn't be difficult.

[Harpoon]

havoc said:

Have you sent them to AirBnB?

Have you called e.g. Citizens Advice? Or your c-card company?

...because this seems a clear case of breach-of-contract. Of course, you may not be able to force performance of the contract from the other side, but getting your deposit back shouldn't be difficult.

It's not me you need to ask

[havoc]

Harpoon said:

It's not me you need to ask

Oops. Saw your post and assumed you were the OP!

[shakotan]

anonymous said:

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Fundamental mistake right there.

[andy43]

shakotan said:

anonymous said:

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Fundamental mistake right there.

Eh? So you delete all your emails? Even ones for payments?

[havoc]

That's a strange thing to do.

[geeks]

anonymous said:

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I understand binning junk emails and such but for payments etc you really should be keeping stuff like this

[Sheepshanks]

anonymous said:

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Lesson learned.

My wife doesn't either - she typically has like 10 emails in her inbox. But she wouldn't give a toss if it gone up. Probably wouldn't even notice.

[CorradoTDI]

I had this exact thing with Air B&B - cancelled and refuse to use them again.

[havoc]

OP, there's a lot of places doing this sort of thing now.

I got charged ~15% more by National for a recent car rental. Only spotted it when I saw my c/card statement and it felt too high. Only managed to get it fixed because I could send them e-mails showing what the rate I'd agreed was. Apparently that's not uncommon in that industry.

[omniflow]

anonymous said:

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ALL emails related to a holiday go into a specific folder for that holiday. I've generally got 2 or 3 holidays in the booking / planning phases, so it's very useful to be able to keep track. It doesn't clutter up your inbox, and is the method most people have been using to manage their email since the late 80s / early 90s.

Then, a couple of weeks before the holiday the confirmation emails for each phase of the holiday get printed out, stapled together, folded in half and a brief description written on the outside. Then they get put in order of use. I know that this stuff is on your phone, but it's very re-assuring to have a paper copy of everything about your person, and you may have no phone signal at a critical time when you're asked to see a document that you weren't expecting to have to use for a few weeks - e.g. the Dutch border guard at Hook of Holland who asked to see our ticket for leaving the EU - which was via a completely different route 4 weeks into the future.

[Wills2]

I'm not terribly organised but if there is one thing I do keep to hand it's the emails that denote the price I've agreed to pay when booking things.