Misleading? Pretty sure that’s illegal.
A lot of companies seem to pull this shit. Went to buy a product from ba Canadian company (in Canada) on their website. Prices were in dollars but no mention of CAD or USD. I used PayPal as the last step so thankfully it told me it’d be converting currency, at which point I cancelled. If I’d tried to pay by card to directly I would likely just have been charged with no idea of the currency difference until later
Airbnb needs to die.
Just like many of these other types of middle ground platforms, it should be a small company managed by a team of like 10 people max making small money with ads and a small kickback fee on each transactions (like a few cents, not the 20%+ they take now).
I don’t agree at all. I don’t think any of these “app” jobs or gig BS should be a thing. Airbnb is screwing with the housing market, and when things with an Airbnb goes wrong there’s little to no recourse.
Hotels already exist, and they’re an established and regulated form of business. With a hotel you more or less know what to expect, and there are consumer protections in place.
They’re fucked. Consumer protection is no joke in Australia.
I have never had a good experience with Airbnb. It was a great idea that the company completely ruined. I hope that it dies and that a better service comes up in it’s place.
Ideally, we’d be able to have a healthy mix of hotels either in or near city centers and short-term rentals for maybe tourist destinations that are away from the center, with a hard limit on how many AirBNBs and hotels can be existing at a time. The idea sounds nice on paper, at least.
Adam Something made a video on how awful AirBNBs are for locals, and the same concept applies to a lot of places where it’s mainly hotels in the area.
It’s a fantastic idea on paper; you, and another family, want to go on vacation but want to be more comfortable than in a hotel while renting your homes out while you’re gone so someone one else gets the same comfort and you get to make a little of money to help pay for the vacation. And everyone saves a little on their vacation accomodations to boot. Everyone wins! And then capitalism and greed happened and people turned the rentals into a business and ruined it.
It might be a regional thing. Perhaps the property owners in popular destinations know that they can get away with more money and less accommodation.