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Wow third-party bookings ARE now OK, but apparently not showing up on some cached pages
▲ 2 r/airbnb_hosts+1 crossposts

Wow third-party bookings ARE now OK, but apparently not showing up on some cached pages

Link:
Make a reservation for someone else

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/4134

>Need to make a reservation for someone else? You can book a home for someone else, even if you're not joining the trip. This is useful if you’re an assistant or family member looking to book for another individual. If you’re part of an organization looking to support someone with their trip, you can book for them using Airbnb for Work.

>In this article

>Requesting permissions to book for someone else

>Book a reservation for someone else

>Managing your reservation after booking

>Inviting other guests to a reservation

>How to book if you currently use Airbnb for Work

>What to know as a host

>Requesting permissions to book for someone else

>Booking permissions let guests authorize a trusted person to book, pay, and help manage trips. If a guest gives a booker permissions to book for them, a booker will only see reservations they book for that guest—not their other trips.

>Before sending a request to book for someone else, you may need to verify your identity, confirm your phone number, and add a profile photo; then enter the guest’s email and we’ll email them to log in (or create an account) and accept your request. Learn more about requesting and accepting permissions to book for someone else.

u/SuperDuperHost — 2 days ago
▲ 0 r/AmazonVine

Since I order a lot of chicken stuff, Vine thinks I also want a rechargeable cattle prod and a goat hook (? a WHAT?)

u/SuperDuperHost — 2 days ago
▲ 36 r/airbnb_hosts+1 crossposts

Bummer: Total Loss in Arbitration Against a Retaliatory Review

I’ve been sharing my fight against a clearly retaliatory review left last September.

A guest booked for 12 nights, showed up, immediately tried to get a full refund he wasn’t entitled to, barely stepped inside the cabin, and left a 1-star review attacking me for enforcing Airbnb’s own Firm Cancellation Policy.

Despite Airbnb’s explicit rule prohibiting retaliatory reviews, they refused to remove it.

I took the case to arbitration with extensive documentation — including proof of the severe drop in bookings, the stark difference between a successful 2024 removal and this denial, and evidence that Airbnb has largely stopped enforcing its own policy.

Just now, the arbitrator ruled completely in Airbnb’s favor.

  • No review removal.
  • No removal of the false “Stayed over a week” metadata (for a guest who never actually checked in).
  • No damages.
  • Nothing. After days and weeks trying to fight this when I could have used my energies better in other directions.

The system is badly broken. Hosts are left unprotected while guests can weaponize reviews with impunity.

I have some big decisions to make — whether to mothball my spare cabin and protect the quiet life I built, or try to pivot to longer-term rentals.

I’m not sure arbitration is always a waste of time, but in this case it certainly felt that way. Many of you who advised to just move on, cut prices, rebuild, or exit the platform were probably right.

Thanks to everyone who followed along and offered support.

Earlier links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/airbnb_hosts/comments/1of6g03/some_pointers_on_seeking_arbitration_us_for_a/

https://www.reddit.com/r/airbnb_hosts/comments/1qwx0kp/wow_just_wow_im_sure_my_arbitration_judge_will/

https://www.reddit.com/r/airbnb_hosts/comments/1s1jrf2/any_airbnb_whistleblowers_around_who_can_shed/

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u/SuperDuperHost — 6 days ago
▲ 31 r/sheltie

Who has the most sheltie refrigerator magnets? And are they mentioning offbeat locations?

I only have two -- I'll bet somebody here has way more!

Mods -- hope this is OK, no commercial tie-in, just curious since I think I need moar magnets.

u/SuperDuperHost — 7 days ago
▲ 222 r/chickens

Mother's day hen managed to save a struggling chick -- does this happen a lot?

Earlier post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chickens/comments/1t9hm0h/mama_hen_teaches_hoursold_chick_how_to_eat/

I had given Runaround Sue, the momma hen, eight eggs to sit on. She hatched two chicks Saturday, and five on Sunday. As the day ended, there was an eighth egg that had pipped.

It had a wide crack in the egg, and the membrane was heaving -- it seemed like that last chick was worn out but trying. At certain points during the day, Sue had been pecking at the crack in the egg to help. It became a wider crack, and the other chicks gathered around and peeped, as well as Sue making encouraging clucks.

Being as the odds of a successful hatch continuing into a third day were uncertain, I wasn't sure what would happen overnight. Right after I observed the hatched chicks peeping around the final egg, Sue extended her wing to protect the final egg and the chicks.

I know humans aren't supposed to help struggling chicks, but it seemed like Sue and the babies were working hard to open the egg and communicate.

Monday morning came, I wasn't sure what to expect, and the chicks were hiding and keeping warm, but there was a cracked egg pushed out of the nest box, a good sign, and no bodies. Tuesday I got a good head count. All eight were hatched! The last chick had been sheltered on Monday and allowed to dry off and gather strength.

Photos show the eight chicks and then a better photo, seven in frame, of them looking at Sue.

Is this commonplace, for a momma hen to work hard on the final hatchling?

u/SuperDuperHost — 9 days ago
▲ 5 r/airbnb_hosts

Journal article: 'Can a Company’s Poor Customer Service Be a Security Risk? An Examination of Airbnb’s Twitter Data Using Artificial Intelligence Supervised Machine Learning'

From the Journal of Applied Security Research (2025)

>This research explores whether poor customer service can lead to security risks for customers. Airbnb was used as the case study subject for this research as its customer service is largely transparent to the public due to Airbnb’s reliance on Twitter.

>While existing literature has documented both Airbnb’s poor customer service and safety and security risks at Airbnb sites, no research has explored the relationship between these two phenomena. Using Artificial Intelligence Supervised Machine Learning, this study examined over 300,000 tweets to u/Airbnbhelp over a period of seven years, from January 1, 2013, to September 2, 2020.

>This review showed that the public primarily contacts u/Airbnbhelp to complain about Airbnb’s customer service; however, these complainants frequently cited Airbnb’s lack of customer service in situations reflecting serious security issues, including unsafe conditions and account hacking.

>This review shows that Airbnb not only has poor customer service, but this lack of attention to customer service puts its customers at personal and financial risk. It is possible that dysfunctional organizational bureaucracy, illustrated by the reliance on bots, could be a contributing factor.

Stumbled across this while this sub entered into deeper discussion of this post yesterday:
https://www.reddit.com/r/airbnb_hosts/comments/1t9jr2u/random_family_shows_up_at_home_after_scammer/
... as it is on point with the genuine risk to hosts of harm from scammers given the downsides of Airbnb support.

To me, a takeaway is that Airbnb customer support is viewed by industry observers as atrocious, and that is a bigger problem than framing it as for example "only the bad stuff gets reported on this sub."

Of note, the study focuses on DMs to Airbnb Twitter, which I and others here can confirm are useless for retaliatory reviews particularly, and does not focus on chat and phone calls to Support, which could not be readily analyzed by outside researchers.

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u/SuperDuperHost — 9 days ago
▲ 174 r/airbnb_hosts

Random family shows up at home after scammer lists it on Airbnb; customer service response is SO AWFUL victim states 'I would rather have AI than these lemmings'

Full post here.

>I spent multiple days trying to get Airbnb to take down the listing. They refused, instead asking me to provide our deed and other documentation, which they said would then be shared with the fraudulent host. 3 other families showed up across those days, each one with their travel plans ruined. I could not for the life of me get someone at Airbnb to act like a human instead of following a script.

>Make no mistake — that kind of unhelpfulness is intentional and designed. The constant switching of support representative, the same pasted script each time, none of that is accidental. So I agree with this. Would absolutely rather have had AI vs customer support lemmings.

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u/SuperDuperHost — 11 days ago
▲ 203 r/chickens

Mama hen teaches hours-old chick how to eat pellets and grit

This is the second brood for Runaround Sue and she is doing great.

Of note, of the two eggs left, at least one is pipping, and she pecked at the shell to help matters along. For some reason, I thought hens were hands-off in that situation.

u/SuperDuperHost — 11 days ago
▲ 9 r/chickens

My Buff Orpingtons that brood are very dedicated and unless it is July hot, they won't voluntarily get off the nest to eat and drink.

Since April/May is cooler, I've been pulling Runaround Sue (on left) off the nest 1x a day to eat and drink, laying her down right by the feeder. I suspect their legs go a bit numb being frozen in place so long, but she gets up, eats, drinks, runs for a dust bath, scratches grass and returns.

I noticed her keel bone was awfully prominent, indicating she is losing too much weight, so I decided to pull her off the nest 2x a day instead of once.

As part of this, my tips:

  • I avoid the cool moments after sunrise and before sunset. The hens seem to relax more if they aren't worried about the eggs getting cold.
  • I make sure there isn't a crowd around the feeder, so she can get to the pellets without distress.
  • When I pull her off, I put a perfectly sized square of foam on the eggs to keep them warm (see pic).
  • I set a timer on my phone at about 15 minutes so I remember to come back to the nesting box and remove the foam so Sue can climb back in.

Hopefully this will result in both a fine hatch and Sue keeping her weight stable.

She's a dedicated broody who raised a great clutch last year, so I wasn't too worried about her losing interest. If she was lackadaisical, I'm sure I could place her at the edge of the nesting box and she's home right in on her job.

Any other ideas you can think of?

u/SuperDuperHost — 18 days ago
▲ 281 r/composting

I shredded cardboard, soaked it for weeks and used it as mulch / groundcover over the winter for my garlic. The bed has never been as weed-free and the plants look quite healthy.

The soaked cardboard semi- dries out and forms a mat that doesn't blow away. It seem to be largely dry on top.

The garlic is pretty green and strong, haven't been feeding it lately, I did add chicken manure months ago.

Original post --
https://www.reddit.com/r/composting/comments/1o4z07w/has_any_tried_soaking_shredded_cardboard_for/

u/SuperDuperHost — 22 days ago