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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by smcl on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:17AM (#30413562)
Sublet it? I mean it's possible that someone really dedicated writes a bot to reserve a room for themselves, but more likely it'd be done by someone who will list it somewhere else for an even higher fee.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by aembleton on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:43AM (#30414677)
Airbnb could just raise their prices by 10% if they detect a bot; that would be a way to take a cut of someone doing that. It would be really subtle too, so they wouldn't know that they'd been detected.