[HN Gopher] What Took Down Airbnb
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       What Took Down Airbnb
        
       Author : mattm
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-10-07 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | arwhatever wrote:
       | If hotels were to explicitly promise "home-grade" Internet
       | service then they would seal the deal for me.
       | 
       | They've improved a lot in recent years but I'd still want to have
       | that explicit guarantee.
        
       | mschuster91 wrote:
       | Paywall, go to
       | https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
        
       | bigyikes wrote:
       | What took down Airbnb for me personally wasn't the government,
       | nor was it the housing crisis, but rather the poor experience it
       | offered. Years ago, staying at an Airbnb was a fun novelty and
       | often I could save a buck. Now the novelty has worn off and the
       | predatory fee structures make me weary.
       | 
       | There aren't many things an Airbnb does in a place like NYC that
       | a hotel can't do better. Hotels are ubiquitous and uniform. You
       | generally always know what you're getting into, and if something
       | is amiss you can usually get it corrected by staff on-site or
       | migrate to a nearby competitor. With Airbnb, you'll be lucky if
       | you can reach a human to help with what will inevitably go wrong.
       | Instead of full-time housekeeping, you'll have to put up with the
       | shoddy resetting that a bottom-rate contractor cleaner does
       | between visits, and Airbnb will happily mark up prices for the
       | privilege.
       | 
       | I'll check out Airbnb again if I ever get the itch for an
       | "experience," but otherwise... hotels, despite their flaws, are
       | just a better product.
       | 
       | Good riddance.
        
         | coffeebeqn wrote:
         | Depends where you go. NYC sure but in a smaller place I still
         | usually prefer to have a house or ideally a cabin rather than
         | staying at the sad chain hotel next to the highway
        
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