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The guy has reportedly received $23k from Airbnb following the orgy, sued his condo for its super's disparaging comments, a doctor for misdiagnosing him, and is
by ivv 11y ago
The guy has reportedly received $23k from Airbnb following the orgy, sued his condo for its super's disparaging comments, a doctor for misdiagnosing him, and is sued by some other guy for defamation in an unrelated issue.
- beedogs 11y ago...and? It seems as though he's in the right, and that AirBNB is still screwing him over, so why mention those things?
- dragontamer 11y agoHow is AirBNB screwing him over? The AirBnB Tenant screwed him over. Why would AirBnB have any responsibility over the tenants?
- myhf 11y agoGood point, there's no reason a business should be responsible for the liabilities it incurs.
- dragontamer 11y agoA gunsmith is not responsible for the people who are shot by his gun. Because there's a person in between there. The one at fault is the murderer: the man holding the gun. NOT the gunsmith. Similarly, AirBNB is not responsible for the tenant's misbehavior. What am I missing here?
- IvyMike 11y ago> Why would AirBnB have any responsibility over the tenants? They may not have any legal responsibility. But consider the message sent to potential renters. Does AirBnB really want this horror story out there, scaring away customers?
- tsotha 11y agoSo he's blackmailing them, essentially?
- IvyMike 11y agoThat seems pretty harsh--another way of framing it is that he's spreading the information about a potential risk. In the end, AirBnB's message has to be "we make renting to strangers safe" or else nobody would rent with then. But a lot of people in this thread are saying "he took the risk and paid the price". So which should a potential renter believe?
- pcthrowaway 11y agohttps://www.airbnb.ca/guarantee https://www.airbnb.ca/guarantee
- ivv 11y agoBecause this seems like a publicity stunt. The guy is a genius who turned the orgy into international coverage and a movie deal offer: http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-make-the-most-out-of-an-orgy.html http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-make-the-most-out-of...
- ghughes 11y agoHow is Airbnb screwing him over? Their host guarantee says they'll pay for property damage, and they did. Ari's problem is that he got evicted for allowing the damage to happen on his watch.
- tsotha 11y agoI wouldn't rent to someone that sue-happy either. The reason these databases exist is it's impossible to get rid of a problem tenant in places where they have too many rights. It also implies if he had a snowball's chance in hell of prevailing in a lawsuit against AirBNB he'd have filed it.