Dynamic Pricing on VRBO is idiotic
My small group was looking at renting a 3BR place 9 months from now. I find a VRBO listing that looks good. Price is $2000. I share the link with the other people who will be renting. We agree it looks great. I return to VRBO 36 hours after I found the listing. Now the price is $3200! I ask a friend "hey can you look at this listing and tell me what it's charging you?" It told them $2700, cheaper than me but not the original $2000.
I contact the renter and they confirmed they had recently enabled dynamic pricing. I told them I'd rent at the original $2000 price but they told me they couldn't disable the dynamic pricing (or didn't know how).
The original host lost our sale. We moved on found a comparable place for $2200 and booked it after the first view with only me vetting the place.
How are groups supposed to plan trips with the BS going on? I'm pretty sure no one or very few people were looking at this place with that 36 hour window except our group, yet the dynamic pricing model went wild and jacked up the price more than 50%.