New from VRBO: Automatically giving your guests a discount

[Nancy Bachety]

Are you opting out? 

[James R.]

VRBO:  "Build trust with your guests by lowering your nightly price."  Yeah, okay, while you at the same time increase your booking fees. 

Be on the lookout for when VRBO automatically changes your cancellation policy to Flexible too.  They did that to me.  I had to manually go into my listing and change it back to Strict. 

I tried a Flexible policy.  Everyone knows that as the booking window narrows, guests go looking for places that have discounted their place to get a short notice booking.  They cancel you with your flexible cancellation policy and book at a lower nightly price somewhere else.  Now, you're stuck getting a short notice booking.  

Every VRBO or Airbnb policy is designed to benefit VRBO or Airbnb, not us.