Airbnb owners are hustlers and I kind of respect it

[Fizzzzle]

I don't have a permanent home in new Orleans yet and today I had to move from one place to another. I was staying at a hostel and I'm moving to an Airbnb. I texted the owner like "hey, I know check in time is at 4, but I'm like... Just chilling a few blocks away, ready to go whenever the place is." She immediately said yeah that's fine, that'll be $75 for early check in, so I said sure. Within 30 seconds she said I can check in now.

 

Like... I've never had a hotel charge me for early check in, especially when the place is already set up.

[Captain Pickle]

I would have said I’ll give you $20

[Biggie]

You got played

[Biggie]

22 minutes ago, Rachel said:

Must be nice to be so rich you can just pay $75 to chill somewhere a few hours earlier instead of chilling for free where you were already at. 

I mean where was he going to chill and waste a few hours in NEW ORLEANS 

 

 

[Ominous]

31 minutes ago, Biggie said:

I mean where was he going to chill and waste a few hours in NEW ORLEANS 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kamusha]

Like, how early was your check-in? I think that’s important to include to give us the full context.

[Fizzzzle]

11 minutes ago, Komusha said:

Like, how early was your check-in? I think there important to include to give us the full context.

The check in was at 4, I had to be out of my last place at 11, so I had 5 hours to just sit on my ass with all of my bags and shit. If I didn't have anything with me, that would be one thing, I would just go hang out and check places out, but not when I have a giant ass bag that I'm lugging around with me.

 

So it was like "hey, let me know whenever the place is ready, I can come in early." She said "alright, let me check, that'll be $75." I said "okay," and she was like "yeah, you can come in."

 

Like... she could have just told me that for free, but she didn't. and I respect that.

[Kamusha]

15 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

The check in was at 4, I had to be out of my last place at 11, so I had 5 hours to just sit on my ass with all of my bags and shit. If I didn't have anything with me, that would be one thing, I would just go hang out and check places out, but not when I have a giant ass bag that I'm lugging around with me.

 

So it was like "hey, let me know whenever the place is ready, I can come in early." She said "alright, let me check, that'll be $75." I said "okay," and she was like "yeah, you can come in."

 

Like... she could have just told me that for free, but she didn't. and I respect that.

Okay, 75 bucks for 5 hours makes more sense. I originally assumed it was for 2-3 hours.

[Biggie]

56 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

The check in was at 4, I had to be out of my last place at 11, so I had 5 hours to just sit on my ass with all of my bags and shit. If I didn't have anything with me, that would be one thing, I would just go hang out and check places out, but not when I have a giant ass bag that I'm lugging around with me.

 

So it was like "hey, let me know whenever the place is ready, I can come in early." She said "alright, let me check, that'll be $75." I said "okay," and she was like "yeah, you can come in."

 

Like... she could have just told me that for free, but she didn't. and I respect that.

Or she could have been a decent human being and not a greedy piece of shit

[Fizzzzle]

1 hour ago, Biggie said:

Or she could have been a decent human being and not a greedy piece of shit

I have a begrudging respect for soulless hustle.

[Biggie]

7 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

I have a begrudging respect for soulless hustle.

But yet you hate capitalism

 

[Fizzzzle]

4 minutes ago, Biggie said:

But yet you hate capitalism

 

I do.

 

But I also can't help but respect when someone looks you in the face and says "fuck you, pay me." That takes some balls, and I respect balls.

[Biggie]

49 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

I do.

 

But I also can't help but respect when someone looks you in the face and says "fuck you, pay me." That takes some balls, and I respect balls.

Congrats. You just described capitalism. 

[Fizzzzle]

2 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Congrats. You just described capitalism. 

I can both hate and respect something at the same time. Haven't you ever seen an anime?

[Biggie]

6 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

Haven't you ever seen an anime?

No

[Guest]

Shoulda just left it at the bell desk, duh 

 

[heydude93]

Scheduling your check-in a day earlier would be less expensive, no?

[Biggie]

The right thing to do would have been to offer to allow @Fizzzzle to drop his bag/bags off for safe keeping so he could check out his new city and explain to him that he would have to return at check-in time.

[Keyser_Soze]

30 minutes ago, Biggie said:

The right thing to do would have been to offer to allow @Fizzzzle to drop his bag/bags off for safe keeping so he could check out his new city and explain to him that he would have to return at check-in time.

 

Most hotels allow you to do this.

 

Sometimes though people do it to get away with stuff.

[SimpleG]

31 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Most hotels allow you to do this.

 

Sometimes though people do it to get away with stuff.

Correct

 

"Hey its 8am and I know check in is at 4 , can we just drop off our bags"

"Sure"

 

9am

 

" We are just gonna take a quick nap, then we will leave"

 

11am

 

" Sorry but the kids wanted to take a dip in the pool before we go"

 

12pm

 

"kids are cleaning up and then we are out"

 

1pm

 

"kids are really lagged , just gonna order a pizza and stay in"

 

Hosts live and die by the rating they get and people know this so they will abuse shit to get ahead.

 

[Keyser_Soze]

5 hours ago, Rachel said:

I don’t think that’s what he meant, I think he was talking about a hotel. Or maybe I’m dumb. 

 

I was talking about a Hotel, but SimpleG elaborated on it for Airbnb places.

 

To elaborate on my example (since I worked at a hotel) there were some people who would check their bags but didn't actually ever get a room there. So they used their checked bags as a trick to hang around without ever actually having a room there.