{"id":62030,"date":"2017-07-27T21:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/airbnb-agrees-to-close-reviews-loophole-after-intervention-by-uk-regulator\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:34:14","slug":"airbnb-agrees-to-close-reviews-loophole-after-intervention-by-uk-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/airbnb-agrees-to-close-reviews-loophole-after-intervention-by-uk-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb agrees to close reviews loophole after intervention by UK regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAccommodation website to allow guests who leave before the end of stay to post comments in bid to expose poor-quality listingsRegulators have forced Airbnb to rectify a major flaw in its customer review system which meant that until now some of the worst listings have escaped bad reviews.Currently, guests who decide to cancel their stay or leave early because the apartment or house is a bit of a dump cannot automatically leave a review. They are usually offered a refund \u2013 minus the Airbnb fee, which they lose \u2013 but then their booking is only shown as \u201ccancelled\u201d. It means customers looking at the reviews of a property have no idea that previous renters thought the place was so bad they could not stay there. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/jul\/27\/airbnb-agrees-reviews-loophole-intervention-cma-regulator\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb agrees to close reviews loophole after intervention by UK regulator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Accommodation website to allow guests who leave before the end of stay to post comments&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-g8u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68552,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/airbnb-given-a-flea-in-the-ear-about-reviews-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":62030,"position":0},"title":"Airbnb given a flea in the ear about reviews policy","date":"October 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We had to leave our holiday property on the day we checked in because it was infested with fleas, but can\u2019t leave a reviewMy husband and I booked a cottage through Airbnb in July. 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