Edited sentence: (8)  -  Bed requests using the official channels may take 6 months or more - all communications are being spam-tested, which purportedly takes time.- Last not least, all improvement schemes of motivated members meet dead silence from Dresden Headquarters, and the founder posts but every couple of years, announcing improvements that never materialize - this stalls and stifles whatever initiative (9, 10).HC does not publish up-to-date figures, but the grief goes that > 90 % of members are inactive - a fact that can be ascertained by clicking the profiles.He suddenly broke his silence in order to eagerly promote, in July 2012, the partnership - resented by most members - with the Californian hôtel broker Airbed & Breakfast [AirBnB], yielding HC a provision with every booking.Homepage Copyright: 2006.In the past five years, the number of active members dropt dramatically (1).Personally, founder Veit KUEHNE will not disclose his finances not the club's structures (2), or  prove the "thousands of volunteers" ' real existence (3, 4).The broker's profit scheme contrasts diametrically against HC's and its members' idealism; apart from advertising for their own competitor, as each bed  can either be marketed with profit, or be ceded for philanthropic reasons for free.The primary reasons for the disillusionment you find in every forum, every blog are.The young join CouchSurfing; the dead wood stays.Volunteers that left,  complain of unbearable conditions (5).a) With > 90 % of members inactive since years, even some major cities have but 1 - 10 active hosts left (7).a) the huge percentage of "dead wood" = inactive members,.b) the snaillike official communication lines, and.c) the leader's inaction and inaccessibility