Couchsurfing review for ali

We stayed with ali for 2 nights. It is very difficult for me to write this review. I have been on couchsurfing a long time and i have hosted quite a view people. Like everyone i am afraid of a negative review after i had my profile full of beautiful experiences for 5 years. But i feel like it is very important that you know these things if you consider to stay with ali. So our experience:

When we arrived in kashan we met a very nice couple from france and russia. They told us that their host had kicked them out very rapidly in the morning, saying his grandmother died and giving them very short notice, after talking about money the whole evening before. 
So far that part of the story. 

Then we met alli (we did not yet realize it was the same person) and we started to feel weird when he talked as much about money. He pretty quickly started to convince us to go to abeyane with him. He can rent a car (more expencive than "cheap taxi reza" that he conctantly bashes) and show us the nicest places. He did the typical selling tactics. Telling us how horrible the touristic tours are and that this is so cheap (50 eur) for the experience we get. He said if we go with reza we only have 20min in the village because the driver won't wait and so on. All lies as we found out later when we met people who did reza tours. They had 2 hours and a lovely time. 

His second favourite topic are how unpolit other couchsurfers were. He told us that they were so unfriendly, not inviting him for dinner after he gave them the abbayane tour, not writing a review for him or not answering to his messages later on. How cold russians and french people were... and then he told us about the russian-french couple the night before. He kicked them out lying that his grandmother died, because they were so cold and unpolite. He even told us this without any hasitastion. 
(This is going to be a long review, sorry guys :D!)
So we slowly figured out what happend: he talked about money too much and wanted to sell his tour. The couple started to feel uncomfortable and supicious, because honestly couchsurfing is just not the right platform for that. So they decided not to do the tour and he kicked them out first thing in the morning. 
He showed us a selfie with them saying "look how unhappy i look. That is how i look like with bad guest. Look how i look now, you are good guests". Later on the couple told us he asked them to take that selfie saying he only takes selfies with his "good" guests. Now he shows that picture arround talking about how horrible russians and french are.. 

It was late at night and he pressured us to decide if we want to do the tour with him and that he has to reserve a car... we have to decide now...
In the end we decided to see it as the business transaction, that it probably really was. For 50 eur we would get a trip to abeyane (i think arround 22 eur with real tours, where we later found out we would have seen 4 extra sights) and have a place to stay for 2 nights. Honestly this is still a really ok deal. The problem with that was that we were lied to and taken for idiots for the folloing two days. 

He constantly lied to us. The couple we met (who found out he had cancelled their stay, when they wanted to write a review...) said that according to ali his grandfather lived in the downstairs appartment and that he always had to give him money, because he lost everything to women and gambling. To us he said a conservative family lived there and we had to be quiet because of them. We think he really is a compulsive lier, because we can not make up any reason why he would lie about this. This is just one of so many examples we could give.

The trip to abejane was nice and his lovely father came with us. In the evening he suddenly told us that his mum invited us for dinner and that we will sleep at their place. His fanily is lovely and his mother cooked us a great dinner. We are truly thankful to them.

But ali constantly pressured us to give him more money. He for example told us that he had germen guests who gave his mother a lot of money to cook for them every night. Talking about how expensive food was...
Or his fatger showed us his money collection. We gave him some euros and cents to complete belgium and italy. Then ali came and asked if he also showd us his paper money collection and that we should give him some austrian bills...

To finish the whole story he told us before that he could bring us to the bus station with the rented car we paid for in the morning. But late in the evening he said he forgot he had to return the car at 7 not 9, he can not bring us. We told him we get up early anyways 7 is fine. But he just lied more to get out of the deal. 

So no we would not recommend you to stay with ali. Iran is such a lovley country full of great people and we were lucky enough to meet a lot of them. Ali is not among them. Have a great trip!

To ali: we are sorry you have to find out this way, but at some point when (it was already too late) we just understood that we would get more out of the money you pressured us into paying, if we were nice to you (also we knew you always left a backdoor open to kick us out if we behaved otherwise). And at some point it just got really important to us that you would not cancel our stay aswell. Since i have used couchsurfing for so many years and i love the great people i met here, it is even more important to me to let people know about this. It makes me sad that someone like you makes us more careful with the people we meet here. If you constantly treat people like they are stupid and lie to them, you can not expect anything else in return. Couchsurfing is not the right place to sell your product. Please join air b'n'b or only take guests into your "hostel" if you just want to sell your tour.