r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 7h ago

Society New Airbnb rules ban hosts from making guests wash dishes, do laundry & other checkout chores

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/new-airbnb-rules-ban-hosts-from-making-guests-wash-dishes-do-laundry-other-checkout-chores-3420832/
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u/Hacym 7h ago

They use the cleaning fee like some places use shipping fees: pure profit or to keep the advertised price low. 

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u/DigNitty 2h ago

just FYI part of the problem is Airbnb doesn’t take a percentage of the cleaning fee. So hosts are incentivized to up the cleaning fee instead of the rental fee.

The last few times I’ve looked for places, the site has shown the total price anyway.

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u/Procrasturbating 7h ago

No one is marking up shipping anymore.. it’s a matter of how much you eat in the cost. That shit got expensive.

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u/Hacym 7h ago

I just ordered a record from a place. 

Mailer: $1 (if you don’t buy in bulk, cheaper if you do) Shipping cost, as printed on the label: $4.11

My shipping cost as a customer: $12

Pretty sure they’re making out pretty good on the basic minimum of running an online store. 

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u/Procrasturbating 6h ago

That shipping or shipping and handling? Someone probably had to go to the post office on something like that. I meant actual retailers.

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u/Hacym 6h ago

So you mean like Amazon? Sure, they eat costs on shipping because their scale makes it minuscule. 

If you order from smaller stores they 100% make a good profit on shipping. 

I don’t think they charge $8 to go to the post office to drop off dozens of packages at a time. 

For the record, (excuse the pun) this was a mid-size music dealer, not some random person on eBay. 

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u/Procrasturbating 6h ago

Well I stand corrected then.