Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO

Re:Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO by aguyfromnb on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:55AM (#22309248)

>e.g. 5 other people are looking...

And "Only $199 a night!" (Plus 100% in fees you see at check out).

AirBnB had a great opportunity to be a small platform to provide people a way to rent their empty homes for a bit of extra cash every once in a while.

Instead, the VCs sniff it out and it turned into a multi-billion dollar platform for real estate speculators, harming neighbourhoods and circumventing laws, because "disruption".

Does anyone consider AirBnB a "good brand" anymore?

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Re:Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO by seattle_spring on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:57AM (#22309844)

Are you two using a different Airbnb than I am? Fees are included in the search when you have dates, and I've never seen the "other people are looking" ever. Are you sure you're not thinking of Booking?

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Re:Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO by dannyr on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:30PM (#22323754)

The domain name says airbnb.com and there's an Airbnb logo.

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Re:Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO by seattle_spring on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:13PM (#22323904)

Can you share a screenshot of Airbnb saying "there are x other people looking"?

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Re:Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO by dannyr on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:16PM (#22362523)

Eh just look it up on the web.

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