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In the context of short term lettings, it is actually a fairly logical thing, because there's a fairly constant overhead per new letting (admin of a new custome
by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
In the context of short term lettings, it is actually a fairly logical thing, because there's a fairly constant overhead per new letting (admin of a new customer plus the cleaning).
It also incentivises longer stays, which is obviously in they interests to make it disproportionate, so I'm not saying that there's no ulterior motive, but it's not axiomatically unfair to reward longer lets (or penalise shorter lets) that don't incur so many one-off costs.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoI have no problem with per-stay fees, and agree they make total sense. My qualm is that they sometimes aren't included in the advertised price of the listing, which makes comparing listings much more difficult, and incentivizes owners to create huge cleaning fees to artificially lower their advertised price-per-night.
- ezfe 5y agoAt least on Airbnb, they do show the total alongside the nightly rate. The nightly rate is emphasized, for no reason other than that it's smaller - but the total is shown right next to it.
- runnerup 5y agoCan you sort by the real price though? Obviously not, because it’s an intentional dark pattern. If all fixed fees were identical across Airbnb this would be much less heinous.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoYeah that's exactly why they do it, so you can't sort by actual price.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoAirbnb in the UK lists and sorts by the total price. You can see the breakdown between nightly and one-off when you click through, but the headline price includes it. I think this might be too avoid breaking a regulation under Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and/or Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.