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This is completely solved on AirBnB's German website (and I think many others too). If you search for a place on airbnb.de the results page shows "€xx per night, €xxx total", where the total price includes all fees (cleaning fees, service fees, taxes), and the nightly price is just total price divided by the number of nights. When you click through to the listing it shows you a table how this breaks down.

Which just shows that using the misleading numbers on the US website is a business decision.

Screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/70Mllu8.png

https://i.imgur.com/7xBXpMU.png

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Same happened to me with a rental cars. When I travelled to Scotland I reserved one from the US. When I picked up the car they added a ton of mandatory fees that almost tripled the price. The person working there told me that they do this only to people from the US. People from Europe get shown the correct price.

Same happens with cell phones here. You sign up for a price and the first bill has several fees added making it quite a bit more expensive.

I wish there was a law in the US that mandated that the paid price is the advertised price.

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High cleaning fees serves three purposes:

1) They artificially lower the listed price per night, causing the home to show up in more searches. This could easily be fixed by Airbnb.

2) It's used as a way to incentivize longer stays. This motivation probably won't go away. Many Airbnbs are empty during the weekdays.

3) It's a way for hosts (and Airbnb) to skirt taxes. This is the real reason Airbnb doesn't want to punish the practice.

Many municipalities in the U.S. tax Airbnbs as a percentage of their nightly rate, and cleaning fees aren't included in that calculation. If those savings are passed onto the guest, they would theoretically lower the effective cost per night.

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Vrbo in the US does this, even let's you filter by total price instead of just nightly
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It's the same in the UK, but that still doesn't do what I want: you can only filter by base price, so you'll get some hilariously overpriced apartments even if you search at a low price.
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Every single thread on airbnb seems to be dominated by this comment. I really don't understand the FUD.

It is "solved" in usa airbnb too , infact german one seems to have more fees/line items, not less.

example: https://imgur.com/a/FJaKHvS

https://imgur.com/a/1JJLpI0

can someone make a PSA to all the people making this "hosts pulling shit" comment on every single airbnb thread.

And yes you can also filter by total price.

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