Hello everyone,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I respect all, but I have shared my own experience, it might be different in other locations and other times.
It's about some reservations that my guests informed me, their costs. The last one that I could access to the guest screen shot payment, is 613.93 $ , while the payout amount is 501.49 , so the service charge is 112.44 , (in my booking page mentioned the service charge is 15.51 $) !
112.44 deduction for 501.49 is too much. Isn't it? (It would be 22.42%) and as far as I know, there is no VAT in my region.
I have the screen shots of my guest payment and my payout, and of course the reservation code. I would definitely disclose this data for an Airbnb officer, if they want for any further consideration.
One more thing, perhaps I shouldn't mention about the other websites, to avoid any misunderstanding about promoting them. No, I am not promoting anyone, actually I am a member of Airbnb, and I liked it, all I am saying is, the service charge is very high (in my reservations/location) which has a bad effect to my booking rates.
Cheers.