Skip to main content
Question

Hospitable arbitrarily reduced my nightly rate by 80% after I manually set a price

  • August 19, 2026
  • 3 replies
  • 24 views

poppyrye
New Participant
Forum|alt.badge.img

I have an unbelievable situation that has transpired with Hospitable. I have a booking that I manually priced at $495 a night. And when the booking came through, the Hospitable or Airbnb pricing arbirtrarily reduced my previously manually set rate $118 a night. It’s a premium weekend (college homecoming) — and got booked immediately. Even though my calendar showed $495 a night, the rate charged to the guest was $118 a night. Hospitable has confirmed the rate was set to $495 a night and cannot explain the variance. Airbnb is giving me no support. And Hospitable is now non-responsive. I am left holding the bag. I can’t cancel the guest without penalization by Airbnb, and I’m getting no answers from Hospitable. I will lose more than $1000 on this booking alone. It’s truly unreal. I can’t get anyone to help me. What do I do? 

3 replies

donna
Known Participant
Forum|alt.badge.img+1
  • Known Participant
  • August 19, 2026

Oh no!! I would have to figure out who did this and what happened. 


poppyrye
New Participant
Forum|alt.badge.img
  • Author
  • New Participant
  • August 19, 2026

@donna That’s what I’m trying to do… with no success. Clearly there was a technical failure between Hospitable and Airbnb — but it’s been six days since I first raised this issue with Hospitable, and no response. Airbnb is saying there’s nothing they can do. Meanwhile, Hospitable has confirmed that I set the rate manually and has also acknowledged that my manual rate and the booking rate are not the same. But neither party is taking responsibility. Meanwhile, I’m out over $1000. It’s disturbing to say the least. Has anyone else ever experienced this and if so, what did you do? Not being able to speak to a human via phone at Hospitable has been a major problem… I’m forced to wait and am helpless to get to a solution. My inquires on the chat remain unanswered. 


WadeSATX
Known Participant
Forum|alt.badge.img+2
  • Known Participant
  • August 19, 2026

I am following your progress.  Keep asking for an escalation ~ senior staff. Good luck.