My incredibly complex and innovative idea is that AirBnB should consider firing all the coders (and their managment) who are involved with the pricing tips, and then make that stuff ACTUALLY WORK. Let me explain...
Let's say that I set some rates for a month that's 2-3 months off in the future. I then click on the button labeled "See tip for all days" to see what AirBnB recommends. (I typically ignore those recommendations because they rarely make any sense.) Just for the sake of this exercise, let's say I decide to click on the "Save these prices" button. One might expect all of the new daily rates to appear in green, indicating that they're now in line with AirBnB's predictions. Oh! But wait! It usually turns out that even more of them are now yellow or orange and OUT OF LINE with AirBnB's reommendations. Which, uhh.... they just, uhh... recommended to me. Let me post three screen captures to illustrate this timeline.
First shot is my prices before asking for "tips":
Next shot is after asking for tips:
Final image is after I've accepted the recommendations:
Not a lot of sense there, is there?
The logic is either totally brokwn, or (I suspect) simply BS from the get-go. As in so much of AirBnB's coding, I think the company is being ripped off by whomever they've contracted this out to. Or, worse, if it hasn't been contracted out, then ripped off by their own in-house team.
I say this fully understanding that I may be putting my own listing at risk of retaliation. But I also say it as someone with a (quite successful) 25-year history in the software biz. AirBnB, you're being ripped off. None of this is all that hard. Fix it. For starters, by firing your contractors or your lower/mid-level management.
Lastly, if you'd like to open an offline dialogue about this sort of thing, feel free. In the meantime, fix this sort of sloppy stupidity. Love ya!