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> At the end of the day you are renting to a stranger. No better words can express my sentiments. Airbnb customers are participating in a business experiment,
by jsavimbi 15y ago
> At the end of the day you are renting to a stranger.
No better words can express my sentiments. Airbnb customers are participating in a business experiment, they're not hoteliers.
What I do find worrisome is that Airbnb being in the customer service business, doesn't appear to be focusing on the user experience at all. What did they do with the money?
- mgkimsal 15y agoProbably invested much of it in color.com. :)
- mgkimsal 15y agoSheesh - it was meant as a bit of a joke - hence the :)
- jsavimbi 15y agoPeople will dv you for any reason. I stopped trying to rationalize it many moons ago. Edit: c'mon, you guys can do better than four downvotes.
- allenbrunson 15y agoSo, it was meant to be a joke. Sadly, it wasn't a funny joke. And it adds nothing to the conversation. Hence, downvotes. HN observers often assume we don't have a sense of humor around here. Actually, I've seen a number of funny comments upvoted, and have done so many times myself. It's closer to the truth to say that most people aren't nearly as funny as they think they are.
- msg 15y agoThe other problem is that it is interchangeable with many other jokes of the same flavor, ie, they were buying Facebook private shares, getting into the LinkedIn IPO, et cetera. This is a tip off that even if it's funny it might not be relevant. See also the South Park critique of Family Guy. Saying they were doubling down buying shares in Hilton and Motel 6 would at least have been marginally on topic. But still a bit obvious, right?