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Because people would steal them the way they steal towels and other things in hotel rooms? It'd be a crackhead's paradise -- find the nearest hotel, break two
by henning 18y ago
Because people would steal them the way they steal towels and other things in hotel rooms?
It'd be a crackhead's paradise -- find the nearest hotel, break two room windows in, and score a cool $600 worth of electronics in a few minutes. Score!
- ivankirigin 18y agoWhy don't they do that now for the TVs or the fine art?
- akd 18y ago"fine art"?
- ivankirigin 18y ago"joke"?
- mattmaroon 18y agoUnlike the Roomba, a customer couldn't plausibly assert that a TV or a painting actually escaped from a room by itself.
- henning 18y agoA Roomba is much easier to pick up and stash.
- HansF 18y agoThey are bolted down.
- mattmaroon 18y agoRather than breaking in, they'd just take the thing home after staying there, and then when they got billed, call the credit card company and say "I never saw any Roomba". Credit Card companies almost never deny a customer a charge back, and they certainly wouldn't over an item that actually could just run away on its own.
- jrockway 18y agoIt'd be a crackhead's paradise -- find the nearest hotel, break two room windows in, and score a cool $600 worth of electronics in a few minutes. Score! I think the hotels that would use this first would not be the motel in the drug district, but rather a high-rise in some city. If you can break into a 10th story window, I guess you can have the Roomba. Currently, theft of this variety doesn't appear to be a real problem; there is tons of expensive stuff in hotel rooms right now. Video game systems, flat-screen TVs, mattresses, etc. The Roomba would be easier to steal, but I doubt it would become a common occurrence. Besides, in my imagined version of how this would work, the door to the room would be open while the Roomba is doing its thing, and the maid would probably hear the window breaking. (There wouldn't be a Roomba in each room, the maid would just carry some when doing their cleaning, set them loose in a few rooms, wait for them to finish, repeat.) Anyway, this just won't happen. I should have just written that initially and saved the bits used to represent this reply ;)