[kornish]

One danger of chargebacks: companies may ban your account or otherwise treat your activity as fraud. It can be extremely difficult to get through to a person to correct the situation.

I know a couple folks who still can't use Lyft, for instance, because they charged back an NYC Citibike subscription. You can allegedly cancel a Citibike subscription by contacting customer support — but after no response, they issued a chargeback and Lyft banned them a couple days later. Since the accounts are tied to the phone number, they simply can't use the service.

Support actually managed to reverse the ban for a few days, but then it was re-triggered (presumably by some automated system).

[ergocoder]

It is cute to think that a person who was scammed on Airbnb for $950 where Airbnb refused to help resolve a blatant scam would even touch Airbnb again.

[dubcee349]

I don't think I would want to ever use Airbnb after that experience so charging back would be worth it.

[WheatMillington]

Why would you want to keep using a service that just ripped you off anyway?

[Nextgrid]

Get a new phone number/email/etc. These companies will lie to you when it’s convenient, no reason not to lie back if it becomes convenient for you.

However, in this case I don’t believe the author will ever want to do business with this disgusting company, so nothing of value will be lost.