vrbo vs. airbnb

Airbnb is free to list. Airbnb charges by commission when the customer booked your property. Tt is about 3%. The credit card charge is 2.5-3%. So I think airbnb charge is very reasonable. The only issue with airbnb is the customer pays airbnb when they make the reservation. But airbnb will not pay you until the customers checked in first. On Airbnb you will have to include the tax in the price.

For VRBO, I was their earlier member so I pay the membership which is about $1500 a year per property. You have access to all the customer's contact information, you can email them, call them. I got a lot of bookings by talking to my customers by phone.

The later VRBO is not taking membership anymore. You can list your property there for free, but they charge by commission, I think it is about 15%. But for the commission based property, you don't have customer's contact information. You have to go through VRBO portal to communicate with your customers unless you got bookings first. You cannot call or talk to the customer over the phone from the commission based properties.

I don't have time to write more detail I am too busy to write more. There are more to talk about. When I have time, I will write some more to share.

There are other websites, like booking.com, flipkey, bedandbreakfast are all based on the commission listings.

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• thanks, lots of information, but VRBO upfront fee is 349 instead -兄贵- ♂ (316 bytes) () 03/20/2015 postreply 13:19:24

• I purchased the featured listing and global package. -NULL- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/20/2015 postreply 13:40:04

• thanks, I knew there were advanced options, I didn't spend any c -兄贵- ♂ (198 bytes) () 03/20/2015 postreply 13:45:24

• I will stick to my homeaway, how about you? -兄贵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/20/2015 postreply 13:49:30

• vrbo and homeaway is the same company. like I said, 95% of my b -NULL- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/20/2015 postreply 14:09:08

• I knew. Your sentence got truncated. please post it again -兄贵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/20/2015 postreply 14:16:31