Oh man some consumers behave like spoiled brats... the word "bastards" is extremely unwarranted. These airbnb folks are putting a massively useful service up an

Oh man some consumers behave like spoiled brats... the word "bastards" is extremely unwarranted. These airbnb folks are putting a massively useful service up and airlines put some serious heavyweights up in the air 1000s of times per day. These facilitators' rewards are miniscule compared to the benefit and achievement their customers enjoy. It should be 100% up to them and only them how they present fees and pricings for their business offering which they created painstakingly in any event. Even before some EU bureaucrats "intervened and forced these bastards" there was good competition among european no-frills airlines that also resulted in some (airberlin I'm sure, easyjet at some point tooI think) proudly proclaiming how they do show the full price, including all fees charges taxes. This simply has to be good enough for customers and they better know their place. If you think airbnb is doing it wrong, you have a massive opportunity at hand. If you think this is not enough differentiation to win big against airbnb, that just proves customers do not really care about that particular aspect. They just like to complain sometimes about minor annoyances equivalent to a mosquito sting, and unfortunately some as you think an initial, quite possibly unfounded expectation was not fulfilled is a reason to keep an ever-growing cancer such as an EU alive. You lose more in ever-growing tax payments overall and in the long run than through (some) web site's or airlines' "shady" practices. This is such a non-issue. You ALWAYS, everywhere see a TOTAL price before check-out and can still fully cancel by simply doing nothing (ie. not clicking check-out). And you prefer officials whose only activity is stifling other activity, who produce nothing but regulate those that do. I can see that the days of an innocent, pioneering, unregulated internet of a million colors and 10s of big and millions of small innovations and sure enough just as much silliness -- are soon numbered if this kind of mind-set makes it to Hacker News and gets 5 upvotes. :/ Vent over.