Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k

Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by twawaaay on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:47PM (#32195693)

> The reason AirBNB will always have garbage service is because the hosts are their moneymakers, not you.

Ummm... the fact that most people prefer Airbnb to anything else seems to directly contradict your statement.

Also, why would you say guests are not their moneymakers? It is the guest that pays the money that ultimately land in Airbnb's pockets.

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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by lazyasciiart on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:29PM (#32196137)

But most people don't appear to prefer Airbnb to anything else? Hotels are still a far larger market than airbnb, 5-10x as big in revenue, in number of rooms that exist, in almost any metric - and that doesn't even take into account that there are tons of hotels listed on airbnb now.

https://backlinko.com/airbnb-stats https://www.statista.com/statistics/245864/us-hotel-rooms-by...

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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by bogomipz on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:15PM (#32196609)

>"Ummm... the fact that most people prefer Airbnb to anything else seems to directly contradict your statement."

This is a fact? Could you please provide any meaningful citation or even the slightest bit of supporting evidence of this "fact"?

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