Re:ACCC: Airbnb allegedly misled Australians about accommoda...
by holografix on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:52AM
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So you’re upset that Airbnb tried to reduce the number of scammers/bots on their platform by requiring profile photos and because they tried to stop you for using them to to direct deals with the supplier and cut them out?
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Re:ACCC: Airbnb allegedly misled Australians about accommoda...
by sgtnoodle on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:44AM
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They literally cut themselves out of the deal after making it. If a profile picture was important to them to the point of being necessary for a reservation, they should have insisted on me providing a profile picture before ever giving me a confirmation or charging my credit card. They were clearly implementing a dark pattern to coerce people to upload a profile picture based on a sunk cost fallacy, probably because a lot of people would choose not to use their service rather than upload a profile photo.