He made a wise move, and I think AirBnB rocks, but I wish the guy would just go away.
He's not worthy.
Ashton Kutcher Joins the Airbnb Team
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#12Is this really a good thing? What does he offer?
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#13I wonder what kind of value Ashton could provide through simply tweeting about AirBnB once a week to his audience - whether or not he had one half decent thing to contribute tech wise. That seems like a real big benefit for AirBnB if he chose to do it, because his influence and reach is so huge, and there is no marketing cost for him to do so.
Even more so, if he made a documentary, or even put some short youtube clips up off him staying at places listed on AirBnB.
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#14I've heard good things about the Kutch from people I respect.
This blog post is really bad poorly wrought though. I wonder how many different pens and motives went in to crafting this monument to celebrity PR garbage.
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#15I've been meaning to write about the absolutely horrible experience I had using AirBnB in San Francisco recently. It was a nightmare.
The place was filthy (the pictures online were taken on their best day ever), the people were unfriendly, the room was small and dank- with no way to even lock the door. It was really, really bad.
I suppose it would be worth a gamble if you have the means to change plans on a dime and pay for a last minute hotel- whatever the price. That's what I had to do. But then, those aren't the people AirBnB is catering to, right?
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#16I've been meaning to write about the absolutely horrible experience I had using AirBnB in San Francisco recently. It was a nightmare. The place was filthy (the pictures online were taken on their best day ever), the people were unfriendly, the room was small and dank- with no way to even lock the door. It was really, really bad. I suppose it would be worth a gamble if you have the means to change plans on a dime and…
Definitely an edge case, but I believe it is because of cases like this that AirBnB holds your payment until 24 hours after you've checked in. You were refunded, right?
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#17I've been meaning to write about the absolutely horrible experience I had using AirBnB in San Francisco recently. It was a nightmare. The place was filthy (the pictures online were taken on their best day ever), the people were unfriendly, the room was small and dank- with no way to even lock the door. It was really, really bad. I suppose it would be worth a gamble if you have the means to change plans on a dime and…
Definitely an edge case, but I believe it is because of cases like this that AirBnB holds your payment until 24 hours after you've checked in. You were refunded, right?
Yes- the refund policies vary. This place had a liberal refund policy, so I got everything but the first night back. So, to be fair- not a big loss.
It all turned out OK in the end for me, but I can't say I'm a big fan after the experience. I'm sure that there are plenty of great experiences others have had to counter balance my poor one, tho.
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#18Is this really a good thing? What does he offer?
Millions of Twitter followers.
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#19I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.
Might have just been copy Demand Media wrote for him.
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#20I've been meaning to write about the absolutely horrible experience I had using AirBnB in San Francisco recently. It was a nightmare. The place was filthy (the pictures online were taken on their best day ever), the people were unfriendly, the room was small and dank- with no way to even lock the door. It was really, really bad. I suppose it would be worth a gamble if you have the means to change plans on a dime and…
I guess I'm like Fred Wilson who said "Why would anyone want to rent someone's couch" - I'm probably out of touch or just mildly privileged.
But the idea of sleeping on some stranger's couch doesn't appeal at all (plus the unknowns like cleanliness, security, etc)