I also didn't know until yesterday's post#46 here that Sellers "get paid out through Paypal, 10 days after the stay is complete.". My first thought was "what do stay dates have to do with it?" Now I understand: Roomer covers its butt for Ms.X potential craziness! Having sold her original booking.com stay to Roomer (for $500 minus Roomer fee), Ms.X still showed up - apparently brandishing proof of her prepaid stay via booking.com at $712

Edit: it's also conceivable that Roomer may have sold more than 1 vacancy there, and the party who showed up was a second Roomer buyer (?) Suite is listed "max. 5 person occupancy", so plenty names can be added LOL. Anyone think that's part of Roomer biz model? (In which case, buying out the listings of tiniest discount is progressively more dangerous - as multiple sales by Roomer become progressively less dangerous for Roomer). In any case, all of this gives more credence to Westgate's claim after checkout April 10th that my "money is with Roomer" and I "should get it from them"...Seems my persistence on this forum is finally solving some behind-the-curtain mysteries