Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”
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#2I'm struggling to believe how much of a cock-up this is becoming. What should be a simple reality: "sometimes things will go wrong" is turning into something that even seems to be infectious. I give it two days before Y Combinator is explicitly associated with airbnb in a newspaper.
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#3> 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?
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#4Renting to strangers is like having sex without protection. Period.
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#5I'm realizing I'm confused about what value airbnb is offering.
If they don't vet people on either end, are they really just a craigslist with payment processing?
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#6"""Airbnb, while pointing out that the incident was the first of its kind out of some 2 million stays booked since the company's founding in 2008 ..."""
source: http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2011...
Either USAToday misinterpreted/misreported a quote, Airbnb lied to a reporter on the record, or Troy is making up his story. I can't see any other way to reconcile the evidence put forth.
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#7Renting to strangers is like having sex without protection. Period.
You should see what happens when you rent to friends, or worse: family.
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#8This is what a bad media cycle looks like. You get a nosebleed in the ocean and the sharks start circling. They'll get through it, though, I am completely confident. At the end of the day, the bad guys are the assholes that abuse the system.
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#9I'm realizing I'm confused about what value airbnb is offering. If they don't vet people on either end, are they really just a craigslist with payment processing?
The claim is they're a craigslist where you don't get to find out who the other person is until after the payment processing, which would seem to most people to be negative value.
Edit: Except for to Airbnb.
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#10I'm realizing I'm confused about what value airbnb is offering. If they don't vet people on either end, are they really just a craigslist with payment processing?
If they don't vet people on either end, are they really just a craigslist with payment processing?
That's mostly what it is, which isn't a bad idea. It also has a strong couch surfer element that CL doesn't.