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I've always found this bizarre. In my anecdotal experience, and that of almost everyone I know, most people agree you cannot trust AirBnB and it's very obvious
by Judgmentality 6y ago
I've always found this bizarre. In my anecdotal experience, and that of almost everyone I know, most people agree you cannot trust AirBnB and it's very obvious they have a financial motivation to lie to you. Their reviews have similar issues of misaligned incentives as Yelp, Glassdoor, Amazon, etcetera.
https://qz.com/410264/you-should-never-trust-an-airbnb-review/ https://qz.com/410264/you-should-never-trust-an-airbnb-revie...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb https://www.vice.com/en/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-...
As a product I prefer everything about AirBnB to hotels except for the fact that I don't trust AirBnB at all, so I never use AirBnB unless I have to.
- dsizzle 6y agoI agree there are reasons to not trust these reviews at face value, but to say you don't trust it all seems extreme. You're saying reviews have no value whatsoever?
- Judgmentality 6y agoOn AirBnB I don't trust them at all. I've personally seen bad reviews removed, "good" reviews edited, and pressure tactics to increase "good" reviews. And unlike Amazon, Glassdoor, Yelp, there aren't enough reviews overall that I can try to figure out which ones are real and unedited.