not getting paid from booking

which payment option are you using?

This is the response from my email to Gillian ***, same old fob off

Thank you for your messages and for following up with the issue. My name is Gabriel and I am a Customer Service Senior Specialist at Booking.com. I'm responding to your message on behalf of Gillian Tans.

Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in you receiving the bank transfer. I can see this has been discussed with several representatives, including Credit Control, and although we've sent all of the confirmations of payment we have received from our bank, your bank was not able to track it on your end.

I can only imagine how frustrating it must have been for you to try and obtain answers and still be waiting for the payment. I will try to liaise with Credit Control to assess what other solutions can be offered in this case. 

As soon as I have a response from them, I will let you know. Thank you so much, and don't hesitate to send us any questions at any time.

Kind regards,

--
Gabriel ***
Booking.com Customer Service Team
 

And my reply

Dear Gabriel 

Unfortunately I find myself unable to thank you for your email, as it is just another fob off from Booking.com, this none payment is not just relating to myself as you and your company well know. If you would care to check out your community forum you will see the extent of the problem, that actually I suspect you already know. Your company is causing untold problems for its so called partners, and it needs to be rectified and rectified quickly, myself and the other “Partners” involved need paying within the next 5 days and I can see no reason why a finance Department of a company of your size can not do this, oh actually I can and that is because they don’t care and don’t want to. 
I look forward to a proper reply with an exact payment date for myself and fellow hosts and not just yet another email fobbing me off

Regards

I feel your pain - I am also still waiting on my payment from April.  This is complete and utter nonsense for a company the size of BDC.  I'm at the end of my tether and not sure what else to do.  My bank says that BDC need to investigate the original payment and trace ti from source to see what has happened with it.  The nonsense about here is the 'proof of payment' is not good enough.  

So it is now 19th June and no payment received this is a copy of my emails today to Gillian *** Dear Gillian 

I understand that any email sent to you goes to someone in your customer service or should we call it lack of customer service department. I have already emailed Gabriel that contacted me last time I emailed you, however you are the CEO of the company and it  is Your responsibility to get this mess sorted out. I and my fellow hosts want the money that you owe us and we want it this week. Please send a meaningful response with a date that this will be finally resolved and we will receive payment.

Regards

Paul Hawkins
 

On 15 Jun 2019, at 11:40, Paul Hawkins <phawkins467@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Owner ID 3580010 In Our Liverpool Home

Dear Gillian, 

I am writing to you as the CEO of Booking,com to complain about non-payment of money owed to me. Unfortunately, I have had a very stressful 4 weeks trying to obtain £450.50 payment from your company for guests I hosted during the month of April 2019. I should have been paid on 15 May as I received the remittance advise on 3 May 2018, and notification that the payment was issued on 8 May 2019. But I never did get paid.

I understand that Booking.com has implemented a new payment method and has been experiencing some teething problems. This, unfortunately, doesn't help me as I have to pay my bills. £450.50may not seem a lot to you but to me it is my monthly outgoings on mortgage and utilities which I cannot go without paying. I was relaying on this payment to cover expenses for May and June bookings.

I have wasted hours of my time phoning your company and sent emails almost every day to try and resolve this matter. Virtually all my emails have gone completely unanswered and the operators who answer the phone although very sorry cannot help and they have a great deal of difficulty in contacting the people that can i.e Credit Control. I have contacted others impacted by this terrible situation via the partners forum and have been advised that the funds have left Booking.comaccount and have been rejected by banks. This is the same bank account that you have been sending the money owed to me for the last year without any problem, so I cannot understand. 

I have checked with my on three separate occasions and they assure me that they have not received or rejected the payment. They have explained that all previous payments went through so there is no logical explanation why this one didn't other than it did not reach my bank in the first place. They have stated that there is no evidence to suggest my bank rejected the payment. I am not sure what has happened but if booking.com can proved evidence from its BACs run to show that my bank rejected the payment I could present this to my bank as evidence. My bank advised me to contact booking,com and request that the payment be sent again. Messages have somehow been removed from my message history.

As a last resort and to avoid any further financial exposure, I have been forced to close down the remainder of my busy summer period because I have not been paid for April guests and cannot afford to continue hosting without getting paid. I have a number of June and July bookings which I will have to honour at my own personal expense. I am very worried that booking.commight be in financial difficulty and maybe I will never get paid!!! The treatment of hosts who are owed money is so unfair. Still not paid my £450.50 owed for April guests. I am sick to death of not getting any answers and spending hours waiting on phone and when I finally talk to the highest ranking manager available I get the same answer and just get fobbed off, the same as everyone else reports on the forum. It is obvious from the amount of complaints about this on the forum that the problem is with your payments department and we need to be told the truth and sent our payments.

As CEO you need to do something to ensure that the ordinary people, on low incomes hosting guest for your company get paid what is long overdue to them, before legal action is taken against you.

Regards

Paul Hawkins

Well said Paul,

I am in EXACTLY the same situation as you.  Been given the complete runaround from BDC on this.  Told it has been paid but it has never reached my bank account and my bank (TSB) have been unable to find any sign of it whatsoever and STILL I'm being told to go back to my bank as it's been paid and not rejected.  In 4 years with BDC, in which time I have always had the same account - I have never experienced this issue and the complete lack of assistance from BDC Customer Services (whether through the Extranet or trying to get a hold of them on the phone) the to get it resolved.

Very poor from a company the size of BDC and I was astounded to hear that they don't actually have a documented, written complaints policy.  Any complaints are basically via the Extranet system.  Unbelievable!

Kind regards,

Liz

Has anyone had an update or been paid

I have not been paid for any bookings since March this year  with the reason that our bank details are incorrect. NO one calls us back and were £1000's in debt because of this.  No one looks into the reason and our details have not changed. I'm at the end of my tether and severely stressed especially due to losing 16 weeks of bookings due to covid and only being in our 1nd year of business 

I am in the same problem. Why does it say bank error. Tell us what bank we supposed to use. You dont have so many options. You ask for swift code, account number and full name. Why error still? I been receiving bookings everyday and you guys havent paid my property not a dime. Please resolve this issue or else i have to delete all my listing. I already sent a lot messages complain and no reply.
 

Please call me to solve this issue at *** my name is Rosemarie Valerio 

Hi All

i am also not getting paid invoices.

I am owed£ 440.00  since November maybe we should be contacting trading standards about this.

I will also be closing my calendar to any further bookings from these dishonourable people. Airb&b is much better and they pay you !!!

I have had the exact same experience as described above - owed £450 since October 2020 and still nothing. I had received payments up until that last booking and changed nothing in my details. I think we need to get media attention to this appalling service! 

Hi, has anyone had a result yet?

I am having major issues with booking.com, I cannot contact anyone who is able to do anything.  I signed up for "payments by booking.com" and have not received a cent.  Booking.com now owe me nearly 13,000 Euro - I have a small Guesthouse with 13 rooms which is family run, so much money and we have already looked after all of our "mutual" guests.  

Booking.com is a disgrace, I have been trying to sort this problem out for over 7 weeks and had only incompetent service, no help, not allowed to speak to the people that can help and seemingly a big company like this cannot solve a small problem.

I am 1 day away from contacting the media, anybody got any recommendations or want to join me?

Oh my god, I have same experience here with non-payment that Booking.com owed to me.  I haven't get  £748.27 payment from Booking.com for guests I hosted from April 11 to 18 in 2022. It supposed to sent to me on April 21, but 25 days past, the money didn't appear into my bank account. 

I think we should take some reaction to sue this company for getting our money back legally. Many sufferer here, i just want to know is anyone get this problem done. if any, please let me know the way to solve it. Thank you.

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