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Quick read the AirBnB terms (termination). Seems like they can basically terminate you however/whenever they want. IANAL but that seems rather flimsy. Aren't th
by kriro 11y ago
Quick read the AirBnB terms (termination). Seems like they can basically terminate you however/whenever they want.
IANAL but that seems rather flimsy. Aren't they essentially an infrastructure provider (website, app, booking etc.) that should have service contracts?
That pretty much means you should not and cannot depend on AirBnB as a major source of income. Risk management wise that's just insane.
It puts a decent amount of theoretical "extortion power" in their hands.
"Oh yeah we see you make X which likely means you heavily depend on this income. Would you kindly agree to these new terms/new rates or be screwed?"
Independent of all of this it is horrible style to terminate someone without further notice or reason. Writing this into ToS is a pretty bad sign.
It generally seems better to have a policy that defaults to explaining the reason for termination except in special cases (funny money laundering laws etc.).
Makes me wonder, is there is any "ToS" ranking site out there? X,Y,Z in ToS are a bad sign, here's why? Kind of like the sites calling out bad UX practices that are meant to trick people into buying extra stuff.
- taneq 11y agoThe problem here is that this sort of termination clause is basically standard practice these days. For instance, Google's TOS just says "Google may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new limits to our Services at any time": http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ - That's pretty damn scary given that I (and most people I know) have a Gmail account as their primary contact! Everyone just accepts it on the assumption that it's a last-ditch protection against 'bad people', and hopes that in their case if anything goes wrong the company will deal transparently and fairly with them.