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To me the difference is that 1) you pay for hotels and you know exactly what the cost is 2) hotels provide a tangible benefit, mostly being the bed to sleep in.
by mym1990 4y ago
To me the difference is that 1) you pay for hotels and you know exactly what the cost is 2) hotels provide a tangible benefit, mostly being the bed to sleep in.
Social media often has this idea that it is “free” and so people don’t think about the massive amounts of time and privacy that is given up as the hours whizz by.
- JohnFen 4y agoHotels where you don't pay rent, in exchange for the hotel recording everything you do in the room, in the lobby, and if you aren't careful, putting a GPS tracker on your person.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoI doubt that a recording of everything I do in a hotel room would be valuable enough to pay for the room. Pity really, I'd quite like to do some touring without having to pay!
- 6510 4y agoI've done extensive research into providing free services (of many kinds) It is not at all problematic to extract enough value from a conventional hotel visitor to pay for their room. The real puzzle is that a free room doesn't attract that kind of people. You get people who feel obligated to draw penises on the wall, shit in the sink and stab holes in your mattress. The normal audience you get, after making the reservations and/or picking up the key mostly wont be in the room because they don't need it. Whatever plot one was to come up with to realize it it is almost guaranteed that it would work better if you charged extra for a room with such creative original features all this wonderful product information as the deeper the pockets the more valuable and less annoying the promotional circus.
- gretch 4y agoI don't know if you meant this facetiously or not, but I'm pretty sure a LOT of people would want to take this deal if it existed. Which is also why a lot of people are perfectly okay with, and use social media
- mym1990 4y agoAdd to this: every 5 feet you walk you have to watch a 5 second ad. I would actually not be surprised if that is a model in the future for hotels...