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Is this a risk waiting to explode? I mean at some point someone will have a IMF chief type incident at a Airbnb booked type service right? Will the startup surv
by rakkhi 15y ago
Is this a risk waiting to explode? I mean at some point someone will have a IMF chief type incident at a Airbnb booked type service right? Will the startup survive the resulting lawsuit and media flairup? I wish them all the best but personally I would not use nor invest in this service. Think PG's initial gut instinct was right.
- rrrazdan 15y agoI am sorry but I can't get your point. Is the hotel of the DSK incident fame, out of business? Who would sue, who?
- rakkhi 15y agoMaybe my mis-understanding on how service works. Happy to learn: + So basically I go to airbnb + Book a room at that someone has put up. + This is a private residence, where they have a air-mattress Does air-bnb do any screening of people putting up rooms or is it purely reputation based system? If the latter surely it is a ticking timebomb? Say the worst case happens (touch wood it never does). Someone gets killed, raped, kidnapped staying at a air-bnb booked place. Any civil liablity for air-bnb? Any duty of care? Publicity fallout?
- ianthiel 15y agoI think your understanding of how the service works is spot on. There's reputation system of sorts since you can comment on people you've stayed with. If anyone ever got a single bad review, I imagine no one would ever stay there again. Airbnb themselves don't do any of the screening.