Airbnb's CEO said that he's heard guests "loud and clear" that pricing on the platform isn't transparent and "checkout tasks are a pain."
Airbnb is adding cleaning fees to a new 'total price' of bookings in search results after people complained listings were misleading::Airbnb's CEO said that he's heard guests "loud and clear" that pricing on the platform isn't transparent and "checkout tasks are a pain."
Can't scroll past an air bnb post without stopping in to say fuck air bnb for its role in the housing crisis. It should be banned unless it's owner occupied.
Tell me again why I would ever choose to get a room through AirBnB? Or travel across a city using Uber? Or have my food delivered by GrubHub?
Everyone wants to claim they have no money, and yet all these services needlessly add cost and complexity to what used to be a far more simple and cheaper purchase just a few years ago. I'll take a taxi to my hotel room and pick up my own food thankyouverymuch.
Honestly AirBnB used to be cool but now it kinda sucks.
Even though there's now a 'total price' option, booking a basic hotel is still less painful. There's cleaning fees and a lot of hosts have stupid requirements like you have to do the laundry or take out the trash or whatever. If I'm paying hotel level fees I want hotel level service. Plus every now and then you hear about one of these places having cameras in the unit. Fuck that.
"Yup yup, we hear you loud and clear, everyone, it's all good bro"
[Doesn't turn full price on by default]
Incoming follow-up, if challenged...
"So we actually paid an expert consultant to tell us that a percentage of our user population actually wants to be actively deceived whenever they use our service. So by default we will still obscure these non-negotiable fees that you will definitely pay in the final pricing."
AirBnB fucking sucks now. There needs to be a term like "slum lords" for AirBnBs. They outsource so many properties to property managers and the house is disgusting PLUS they charge you the cleaning fee.
It was only just recently that the flood of “Airbnbust” articles seemed to abate a little. I can never tell if Airbnb is going great, or it’s terrible.
For my own part, I’m happy for this update. Despite the complaints, Airbnb is usually a great option for families with little kids, where the alternative is usually “book multiple hotel rooms, and split the parents between them.” Price transparency is good, and I won’t book a place that has a task list for me.
I will never understand how this is a fucking thing. Let alone so fucking much? Don't want to have to pay to clean up after your guests leave? Then I guess you are in the wrong fucking business assholes.
There is a level of hostage taking that makes you question the whole logic of digital economy. If one side (customers) are complaining and the other side is not (house owners), then, the madness is not that bad. But this is insanity. Both sides complain every time yet keep going back to the hostage situation.
I have never encountered hotel rooms that are cheaper than the comparable local Airbnb offerings (at least in Canada and US). Where are these cheaper hotel rooms?
Great, now fix where listings outside of your price filter keep appearing. And it's not just places where there are so few options in one's price range that it would otherwise be no results.