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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by davidgay on Friday September 09, 2016 @01:35AM (#12459837)
The thing that confuses me about AirBnB "vetting" is that I used VRBO for many years without any sign of vetting required. It was only on my first AirBnB that I had to fill in a "profile", explain why I was a "good" renter, etc.

Why do AirBnB hosts need all this when VRBO hosts did not?

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Re:Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by ... by rspeer on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:31AM (#12460033)
Huh. I've gotten "vetted" by VRBO hosts.

In fact I've usually had to try to negotiate with them over the phone as they suddenly jack up the price to twice what they advertised, or tell me that they made a mistake in the listing and they weren't actually available.

I don't even know why; I'm not part of any class that would usually be discriminated against. Maybe I sound young on the phone.

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