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When you searched Airbnb for prices they wouldn't include cleaning or additional services. For my first few years using Airbnb, this wasn't a problem, but then
by MrPowers 6y ago
When you searched Airbnb for prices they wouldn't include cleaning or additional services. For my first few years using Airbnb, this wasn't a problem, but then folks began hacking the search algorithm and charging huge cleaning fees to get included in more searches. You'd select a place for $500 and find it was $700 when checking out. I started going back to hotels cause they were cheaper than Airbnb.
- dTal 6y agoThis sounds like very much the same class of problem as "absurd shipping fees on eBay". When the fees are not actually guaranteed to go to the thing they purport to go into, but are just ways of moving money into line items the sorting algorithms don't see, I think it amounts to false advertising.
- zwirbl 6y agothank you for the clarification, I really thought it was normal business practice (which it can be), but this sounds much more like a scam
- spaetzleesser 6y ago”You'd select a place for $500 and find it was $700 when checking out” Noticed that too lately. It’s become pretty difficult to search for something by price because a lot of places almost double the price after cleaning fees.