Potential Host is asking for a 1000PHP deposit per day outside of AirBnB ($20/day)

[David853]

One of the places I wanted, and want no longer, asked for a deposit roughly 66% of the cost of their advertised daily stay in Manila. How do I inform AirBnB that the host is trying to gouge customers like this? I can take a screenshot of the text message.

[Dee9]

look for the little flag icon in either their message or their profile and click on it, it will then ask you for an explanation

or contact @airbnbhelp via twitter direct message

[David853]

So the guy who claims he owns the place got back to me. He claims that it was a misunderstanding with the person he was using to take care of the place and that he had already asked her to stop doing this as of Dec. 16. I'm tempted to believe him because the grammar and vocabulary used in previous messages and this was an order of magnitude more complex.