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Re:Introducing Airbnb Plus by lazerpants on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:09PM (#16440419)
"Introducing AirBnB: Simplicity. Clean sheets, great hosts, for a fraction of the cost of a hotel."

Game over^2.

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Re:Introducing Airbnb Plus by matte_black on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:19PM (#16440507)
AirBnB Simplicity, AirBnB, and AirBnB Plus? I don’t think so. I’d give that a D+ on execution.
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Re:Introducing Airbnb Plus by lazerpants on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:00PM (#16441862)
Really? What about JW Marriott/Marriott/Courtyard by Marriott.

Edit: Marriott, across all of its brands, had nearly $23B in revenue last year. They're clearly doing something right by segmenting their brand.

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Re:Introducing Airbnb Plus by ultraflux on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:43PM (#16443489)
Yes, but they also did not use Marriott Plus for obvious reasons. Marriott can fully control their brand segmentation, Airbnb cannot. As it stands there are plenty of standard Airbnb listings hitting far above the Airbnb Plus segmentation. In the end you end up with a plus but not a plus and a higher nightly rate. And now I'm laughing.
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Re:Introducing Airbnb Plus by matte_black on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:45PM (#16442706)
AirBnB is not a hotel company. They are a platform for people to list their homes for other people to rent for a short time. Never forget that.
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