Re:Airbnb Offers Unconditional Apology, And $50,000 Insuranc...
by WordSkill on Monday August 01, 2011 @09:05PM
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No-one is blaming Airbnb for the actual act of vandalism.
They are different from Craigslist because they take a percentage of the transaction. This makes them a participant in the transaction and this is important in legal terms.
The heat is mostly because young, inexperienced and overconfident executives overplayed their hand and then tried to salvage the situation by blatantly and very obviously lying about what their position had been 24hrs earlier. It was astonishing to watch and caused quite a feeding frenzy.
They are different from Craigslist because they take a percentage of the transaction. This makes them a participant in the transaction and this is important in legal terms.
The heat is mostly because young, inexperienced and overconfident executives overplayed their hand and then tried to salvage the situation by blatantly and very obviously lying about what their position had been 24hrs earlier. It was astonishing to watch and caused quite a feeding frenzy.