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Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by usrusr on Saturday April 08, 2017 @07:07AM (#14066371)
In short: the increased risk of making your home available on Airbnb.

The whole concept of "sharing economy" seems to be based in large parts on the idea that individuals who got unlucky take the damage for the herd and are somehow expected find solace in knowing that the fearsome zero star retaliation rating they gave will maybe help someone else. A bit like mixed cost calculation, where the easy customers subsidize the difficult case, but reversed: the happy path transactions reap the benefits.

Re:'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel' by Zak on Saturday April 08, 2017 @09:15AM (#14066743)
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Patronizing a business comes with a risk of defective products or bad service. Running a business comes with a risk of bad customers.

Doing it in a more peer to peer fashion using a website improves the flow of information about these kinds of risks, but can't eliminate them. No reasonable person would think renting out their apartment overnight to strangers is risk-free; it's just a question of whether the risk is worth the reward.