going to share a story because it's insane

i booked an Airbnb. checked in Dec 30--much worse than the pictures, but otherwise uneventful.

the next night, right after the New Year's celebration, i come back to find a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PARTY in my airbnb.

this is where it gets interesting...

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
building /daimo ✳️ 

i message the host, gather my stuff, call Airbnb support. i'm hanging out on the couch. they offer me a beer (lmao)

Airbnb support is initially helpful and reasonable. "send a photo," they say. i send several.

after a few minutes, I leave and go to a hotel to sleep

next day the host calls me, tells me the other party was supposed to go the "downstairs unit". (upstairs is the only obvious door and neither are labelled)

OK, that's between you and them, but I'm in a hotel now & need a refund. he says something about airbnb support and hangs up.

ever since then...

i am basically ghosted by Airbnb...?

call them 
> call center, heavy accent, "please wait while i transfer you to our special team"
> 🎶
> every two minutes "sorry the line is busy, are you still there?"
> 🎶

tried on Tuesday, gave up after ~an hour

trying again now

epilogue: they refunded me $957 of the original $1,991

(which means the one night i actually stayed there cost a cool g)

they initially tried to refund even less. pursuing it further is a waste of life force

nice, very nice

i stand in the open doorway. 8 or 9 people inside, drinking, smoking, Migos playing on the TV. lady with big hoop earrings and i lock eyes.  

after a short, ridiculous, hilarious conversation i realize that she has a VALID BOOKING for the same unit. has been talking to the same airbnb host.

Wow. That’s incredible. Do they have a way to follow up with you? I had heard of some issues but they were usually resolved quickly. 

Also it makes you wonder why a host would want to get tied up with 2 sets of guests simultaneously and have to deal with calls from the guests and Airbnb. It makes no sense.

Yea, ABnB ain’t cool no more. Sorry that happened to you, totally insane stuff