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My experience has been really different from yours. After my first stay in an Airbnb five years ago I learned I needed to be more careful about reading the revi
by BMorearty 6y ago
My experience has been really different from yours. After my first stay in an Airbnb five years ago I learned I needed to be more careful about reading the reviews and the descriptions. Since then I’ve only had positive experiences. The places I stay in are usual run by an individual, not a manager (and when it is a manager it’s clear up front). The service has been fantastic and the places have been beautiful. My last stay was amazing. With my family at a house in San Juan Bautista, with a private lake, the last week before my kids went back to school.
- julianlam 6y agoYou've hit the nail right on the head. When I first started using airbnb, I would run into these awful listings because I was scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel. On a visit to Boston, I once stayed in a cheap AirBnb in the bad part of Methuen, MA, where the local grocer knew I was from out of town because I paid in cash and not food stamps. My wife, on the other hand, always reads the reviews and I've never had a single bad experience travelling with her. If you go by price you get what you pay for. This isn't a failing of AirBnb, its how life works.
- cutenewt 6y ago"Reading reviews" hit the nail on the head for me. I miss the days where I can just make purchases without having to "read the reviews." I'm so time-constrained as it is; making customers responsible for ensuring that they've contracted with a quality host / Uber driver / seller on Amazon -- is one of the things I hate about new age "marketplaces."
- baq 6y agohey, you've got freedom to make your own decisions. a libertarian's dream. most people conveniently don't mention that there's a cost in the process of making a decision itself, and it isn't negligible.