airbnb host "Quay Holidays" are imbeciles and / or scammers, and may be committing "Challis Extra Conditions After Payment Fraud"
Yesterday, I booked an airbnb accommodation for tonight in Poole, so I and another passenger could be in place for the ferry in the morning. I have come to the conclusion that the behaviour of the host amounts to a fraud. They accept the money via airbnb's web site, and then start to impose extra conditions on the customer, hoops for the customer to jump thru. They do have the ability to provide the service, but they would prefer not to, because then their margins are higher. So instead of allowing airbnb to define the parameters of the arrangement, they ask the customer to jump through time-consuming and silly and dangerous hoops, and if the customer (victim) says no, they keep the money and refuse to provide the service. I have coined the term "Challis Extra Conditions After Payment Fraud" to describe this general type of fraud, named after the two directors of the legal entity "QUAY HOLIDAYS LLP". Suppose a business offers a service. Suppose the business c...