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Be careful on your next booking on AirBnB, VRBO, Flipkey or other popular short term rental website.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because now we have drop-hosters.\u00a0 Don’t believe me?\u00a0 Take a look at these 2 AirBnB listings and tell me what’s different:<\/p>\n\n

There is nothing different about the short term rental that you’re going to get when you book it; a nice lodge in ski country, Colorado!\u00a0 But you will notice<\/p>\n

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  1. different title<\/li>\n
  2. different host name<\/li>\n
  3. price is 30% higher on the drop-booking host!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Drop-hoster is a new term coined on the basis of the drop-shipper.\u00a0 A drop-shipper will list an item for sale on ebay.com for $5, copy it word for word, list it on another website like shopify.com for $8.\u00a0 Once an unsuspecting buyer purchases the item on shopify.com, the drop-shipper simply purchases the item from ebay.com with the ship-to information of his buyer, and pockets the difference.\u00a0 The original seller gets paid, the buyer gets her item, and the drop-shipper makes a healthy profit being the middle-man for taking on no inventory risk.\u00a0 It’s well-covered on this eBay post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Drop-booking works the exact same way, except with booking a short term rental.\u00a0 Here is a tip to avoid overpaying for your next short term vacation rental stay:<\/p>\n

    Search a unique phrase in the listing body<\/h2>\n

    These drop-hosters are out for a quick buck so they will make some quick changes to the listing so the original poster doesn’t recognize their listing.\u00a0 But if you pick out a unique enough series of keywords and add in some location info<\/p>\n

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    then see if the same verbiage shows up in the results page that points to the listing<\/p>\n

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    This quick tip can help you avoid paying an unnecessary markup on your dream rental stay.\u00a0 It’s almost like finding an online coupon that saves you 30%, except you’re really avoiding the over-payment.\u00a0\u00a0 It will work anywhere, but you just need some deal-sniffing skills.<\/p>\n

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    Be careful on your next booking on AirBnB, VRBO, Flipkey or other popular short term rental website.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because now we have drop-hosters.\u00a0 Don’t believe me?\u00a0 Take a look at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[157,27],"tags":[121,122,125,36,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nYou may be over-paying for your next short term rental booking - watch out for drop-hosters! - Harmari Short Term Rental Compliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmari.com\/harmaristr\/2017\/10\/02\/you-may-be-over-paying-for-your-next-short-term-rental-booking-watch-out-for-drop-hosters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You may be over-paying for your next short term rental booking - watch out for drop-hosters! 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