For example, I stayed at a place in Germany that said they had a washer and dryer. Indeed there was a washer and I thought it might be one of those all-in-one units (washer and dryer), but it was just a washer. I asked the host about the dryer and she said she didn't have one. I pointed out that she listed one on the AirBnB site under amenities.
The problem here? Language barrier. She thought "dryer" meant hair dryer, which she had. It sorta screwed up my trip because I did a multi-city stay and that was the place I decided to do laundry and forewent laundry facilities and the previous and next places when I planned everything out beforehand.
And as grandparent here alludes to: people have wildly different ideas about what a particular amenity is. "Wifi, but only when you're sitting on the couch" isn't up to snuff for me. It may be that most people who stayed at that place were not in the apartment much and only checked email occasionally. It may be that I need to use the internet for a couple of hours each day to deal with work or some other commitment.
What I've found is that you need to find out which amenities are REALLY important to you for each place you stay and send messages to the people ahead of time to make sure the really important stuff is what you'd expect and not "just true enough that I can probably check this box for the amenity".