still true
$225 can get you a fairly decent hotel room too, with all the amenities
Many hotels now allow larger dogs too, which was the only reason I had used Airbnb previously
You’re boycotting AirBnB because the cofounder became a Musk rat.
I boycott AirBnB because like almost every startup out of silicon valley, it always sucked.
We are not the same
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Haha get it? Muskrat
Seriously though, you’re like a decade late to the party of illegal hotel chain ruining it for everybody. Out of all the stupid exploitive businesses, this should have been the easiest and straightforward to boycott, if it wasn’t already apparent the business owners aren’t some grifting scumbags.
phone rings
“Hey man, it’s Elon. We’re ransacking the shit out of America. You in?”
This picture looks AI generated.
They’ve already fucked up real estate and neighborhoods all over, which was good enough reason for me. Plus their system and the way everything works now is absurd. Anyway some corporatist rich fucker working with others like him to harm people? Of course. That’s what they do.
Sorry, no can do. Never used it and never intended to.
It was good when it first started out; you could just rent a bedroom in someone’s house for a few nights nice and cheap. Perfect when alone especially.
Now it’s more expensive and more hassle than a hotel. The only use these days is things like cabins or beach houses, and I wish they used something different.
AirBnB is already trash in many ways. The last straw for me is the hiding of the exact location “feature”. I get privacy is important, but the locations can be of night and day difference within the huge circle. For a small town I visited, it covered the whole place!
There were plenty of reasons to boycott Airbnb before, namely the fact that it removes apartments from the market at a time where people have a hard time finding a place to live…
Yup another reason to not use Airbnb. Like others we have big group trips where we want a house. Sticking to other providers.
Are there any providers you’d like to recommend?
Nothing too insightful, I just used VRBO.
Destroying rental markets everywhere it’s allowed to operate isn’t enough?
Let’s bring back couch surfing. They can’t compete with free.
Wow fuck I had no idea. Fuck all these guys man fuck all this pricks.
Not that I would dare to contradict the groupthink, but boycotting AirBnB will hurt the thousands of individuals who rent out part of their homes vastly more than it will hurt a guy who has enough money to be financially secure for thousands of lifetimes.
Oh no would someone think of the poor landlords and their investment properties. Thoughts and prayers
Most airBnBs are single houses people own or part of their own house. But dumbing it down to the GoodGuys vs the BadGuys and putting the right color hats on them will get you upvotes.
If this means the price of AirBnB’s go down, I’m all for it!
