I tired to solve this privately and get some questions answered from airbnb, but they haven't responded so here's what I sent them -
G'day guys,
There's been few issues with this place, the concierge being rude and unprofessional, pestering me about check in times and why I was late.l, the smoke alarm hanging from the roof not working, the host contacting me at 10:30pm.
But the most troubling is that he made me present a credit card, charged me $1 and took the details down before he would hand me the keys.
This is the first time I've ever had this happen and as far as I know its a breach of airbnb policy.
Id probably say this is the worst experience I've had with air bnb and it's definitely not the usual friendly and helpful service all the other hosts have provided.
Why has he taken my card details?