Today I noticed a new “feature” that we can’t send more than a few messages a day. Clearly better than in the days when our system “paused” after a few messages, due to the frequency of sending.But why did you put a new barrier?Personally, I have some days available to send messages and I can’t log in every day…Please, remove the restrictions, at least for trustworthy people like ambassadors or people with some exchanges and above. Help us find homes, don’t give us a hard time. Very friendly, Pascal.
From what I found out it is 100 requests per 24 hours, i.e. the roll is not reset at 12 o’clock at night.Which means that I have to wait 24 hours from the last message to try again.Already since yesterday I have 50 negative replies which means that it is already difficult to find a replacement. Maybe you should reconsider?
I remember the big problems of December, but they were caused by new accounts. If one is a confirmed user, one should not be under such restrictions.
Yes but 100 is very high. It works better when you personnalize, myself I’ve found 4 gp exchanges in Greece this summer and didn’t needed 100 requests total. It’s indeed 24h from the last message. Personnaly I won’t vote for this.
I disagree, in my case it is not enough.And in general I don’t see the reason for such a restriction.HE worked fine for years and since this year everything has become difficult.Thanks for your help.
Wow , 100 requests is alot in 24 hours. I actually would think someone had gotten hacked and was spamming people if they did that many requests so quickly. I feel there were probably some incidents or complaints to drive this. I think maybe a more personal request or more detail when you ask. I am not keen to make something work with one sentence requests. I Have to have a feel for people otherwise I would list my house for short term rental.
if you are going to send, for example, to Athens, you will find that you have to send several messages. What kind of spam are we talking about?Since we send to separate individuals and only once… Also, sometimes time is of the essence, we don’t all have the possibility to send very early invitations for exchanges…
The type of spamming is like when your credentials for a site are hijacked not sure if that has happened on HE.
Could you find more than 100 available matches in a location for your dates? I am not a planner but actually finder shorter time frames suit us. I also consider HE a nice to have not a this is the way I must go so that is perhaps a difference.
Yes this feature was introduced a little while ago to discourage members from sending large numbers of unpersonalised messages to hosts. The limit is 100 per 24 hours which in my opinion is already rather a lot. It is to encourage members to thoroughly read listings and then send considered and personalised messages. There are often complaints from members particularly in very popular areas that receive a high number of requests where it is clear that they haven’t read the listing thoroughly. I feel like it it would be tricky to read 100 listings in detail and send a considered request in 24 hours. Here is the FAQ with further details about this feature: https://forum.homeexchange.com/t/home-exchange-day-2025/14464/2
I’ve found a gp exchange this summer in Athens in just 2 personnal message with details. Same in Kalamata, Veria and Kassandra peninsula. I’ve found 4 gp exchanges in Greece with less than 25 requests send during the winter. Works better than sending everyone around the same message in my long experience
