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murermader wrote: post #107
_gabe_ wrote: post #42

I had something similar happen on Amazon. I bought a pair of winter gloves then got a letter a week later in the mail offering me $30 (twice what I paid) if I left a 5 star reviews. The letter even left a message at the bottom saying not to post a review with a picture of the letter! That annoyed me, so of course I posted a review with a picture of the letter, then Amazon rejected the review since it didn't review th…

Next time use this simple strategy: Leave a 5 star review, collect the 30$, then change it to a 1 star review. Ideally Amazon would do something against this, but I think they just don‘t care.

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Post by ska »

moneywoes wrote: post #201
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They buy profiling information from data brokers. Cataloging online accounts is one of the services they offer.

Any idea who these brokers are? How do we opt out

> How do we opt out

Effectively, you can't.

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Post by mythhouse »

chollida1 wrote: post #15

There is an old joke, how do you know that someone is a vegan or does crossfit? You'll know because they'll make sure you know minutes after meeting them. In 2008-2011 on HN if someone worked at facebook you knew because they mentioned it so often. Now you never hear anyone saying they work for Facebook because of all the negative externalities that Facebook and Instagram have had on the world that no one wants to be…

> You never hear someone claim to work at AirBnB anymore due to what the company has done to help ruin housing and rental markets.

I hear this a lot. I've always wondered if it was that easy wouldn't a lot more people be buying properties and airbnb-ing them out through local agencies ?

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Post by Arainach »

jtc331 wrote: post #189
rcpt wrote: post #146

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Well, they're ruined because of zoning (and tax law but that's a whole other story) In theory zoning is supposed be in residents interest to stop things like fracking from happening next to playgrounds (it doesn't but again that's another story). Cities follow zoning law to the letter when it comes to new apartments. Airbnb repurposes residential zoned property as commerical hotels. If we're going to take zoning seri…

Comparing it to a commercial hotel isn’t really accurate. It’s more like a bed and breakfast. Size of the property matters a lot.

In every city there are multiple hosts who buy/rent out entire apartment complexes and turn them into AirBnBs. That's a hotel, not a bed and breakfast.

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Post by mythhouse »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #181
chollida1 wrote: post #15

There is an old joke, how do you know that someone is a vegan or does crossfit? You'll know because they'll make sure you know minutes after meeting them. In 2008-2011 on HN if someone worked at facebook you knew because they mentioned it so often. Now you never hear anyone saying they work for Facebook because of all the negative externalities that Facebook and Instagram have had on the world that no one wants to be…

I've seen all the comments about cleaning fees but didn't really believe it until I was looking for a place to spend March break; it's completely ridiculous! How is it that they aren't capped as a % of nightly cost? This is like the outrageous shipping costs of old eBay.

you can now chose to see the totals with all the cleaning fees included.

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Post by vlunkr »

imtyler wrote: post #26

My nextdoor neighbor sold their house last year and now it's an Airbnb. Despite the fact that I live in a house in a normal residential neighborhood, I'm now forced to live next to a hotel. And I have no say in the matter. Super frustrating. I've read people talking about how Airbnb screwed the host or the guest. But few people talk about how it screws the neighbors.

I tried to buy a house that was instead bought as an Airbnb. I'm still annoyed, but on the bright side it looks like it's almost never booked.

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Post by welshwelsh »

jeroenhd wrote: post #129
pitaj wrote: post #97

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> people are getting squeezed for living space and rising rents partially due to AirBnb taking those rentals off the market From what I've seen, short term rentals have negligible effects on the housing market. And restrictions on short term rentals have little to no effect on housing prices. It's just another scapegoat (like foreign owned housing) that people like to use because they can't accept the fact that the s…

This analysis about the impact Airbnb was having on Amsterdam disagrees: https://www.ing.nl/zakelijk/kennis-over-de-economie/onze-eco... The city has passed laws to keep down the amount of temporary rentals so the balance has undoubtably shifted by now. A later analysis by the same bank ( https://bnb-beheer.nl/blog/2019/03/06/prijseffect-airbnb-op-... ) says as much.

Ok, so ban AirBnB and more housing is available for people who want long term leases... but there's still a problem, because now we have a shortage of temporary housing.

Any solution that isn't "build a fuckton more housing units" isn't a solution at all. We need enough housing for permanent residents AND people who prefer to live in AirBnBs. Often the AirBnB people are wealthy tourists who spend a lot and stimulate the local economy, so kicking them out is a horrible idea.

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Post by bosie »

greggman3 wrote: post #202
rcpt wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, they're ruined because of zoning (and tax law but that's a whole other story) In theory zoning is supposed be in residents interest to stop things like fracking from happening next to playgrounds (it doesn't but again that's another story). Cities follow zoning law to the letter when it comes to new apartments. Airbnb repurposes residential zoned property as commerical hotels. If we're going to take zoning seri…

AirBnB sux but zoning has arguably been a net negative on most societies in many ways https://youtu.be/bnKIVX968PQ https://youtu.be/CCOdQsZa15o for me what I noticed lately is that in California it's impossible to have a quiet modern apartment because nearly 100% of modern apartment buildings are only allowed to be built on busy noisy high traffic streets. If you want a quiet street you're forced to buy/rent a house

why is california not allowing apartment buildings being built in low traffic streets?

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Post by zbrozek »

jerjerjer wrote: post #187
zbrozek wrote: post #131

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That last point - that housing is too expensive - is not something that airbnb causes or can fix. That's a supply side problem and the solution is housing construction. It may marginally exacerbate the symptom by providing liquidity.

It removes liquidity from housing market, by repurposing flats/houses into hotels.

It's creating liquidity, just not the kind you value. It's liquidity of short term housing rather than long term housing.

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Post by neilv »

This post has more hardcore libertarian comments than usual.

PERSON: Then, in the morning, we woke to find huge rats scurrying around the bedroom.

LIBERTARIAN: The contract was for a place to sleep, and here you admit receiving that.

PERSON: And it turned out the owner was running a meth lab in the garage.

LIBERTARIAN: What business is it of yours, how the owner uses their property.

PERSON: When we told the owner we were leaving and would be complaining to Airbnb, they brandished a firearm.

LIBERTARIAN: Your stay was over, and you were trespassing. Castle doctrine.

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