Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
by pnutjam on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:19PM
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Yeah, I've used priceline to stay in Michigan, mostly. I've never had trouble with declining to put a cc on file at the hotel.
Drove out to Connecticut and their policy was hard, of course I didn't have cc funds available and I had a carload of kids that had been traveling all day. One of the guys there, a bellhop I think, put the charge on his card and trusted me not to screw him. One of the nicest things a stranger has ever done for me.
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Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
by lotsofpulp on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:30PM
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Hotels require credit cards because without them you get far too many problem guests (drug dealers, partiers, pimps, hookers). Based on my experiences, I wouldn't want to stay in a hotel that didn't require credit cards.
Re:Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB
by Kliment on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:02AM
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Sorry there seems to be some confusion here. I was complaining that a hotel would not let me pay by card (because they were not declaring the income presumably). "Our machine is broken, we only take cash etc". I escalated it up the chain and the machine miraculously unbroke in that case but it's not the first time I have this kind of experience in a hotel.