They have several competitors but knocking off the biggest marketplace in any segment is really hard. You need to get a majority of listings on your platform before you can even have a chance at attracting enough customers to justify them listing. Chicken-egg issue.
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It's called hotels. If you want professional service, you go to the more highly regulated and standardized industry. In the past, Airbnb was cheaper. Now, the value proposition of ABNB is not so clear unless its on the high end or you're traveling with more than one couple.
Digital nomads don't want to share internet with everyone else, which is what happens in most hotels. Better to have your own router that no one else can use/stream from.
True once you experience their customer support you know what it is to interact with 100% pure cancer and brain damage
DBNB is a decentralized company that’s working on that.
dude, what are you complaining about? airbnb is mostly fine for me and i use it all the time
You should try building a company with better service if you think it's easy!
Their main competition VRBO is not much better.
Go build one! Let us know when you’re done!
Booking.com Is bigger I think than airbnb and I had waaaay better experiences with them for sure
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Actually, at least in Europe, Booking.com took over most of AirBNb business.
Network effects
Because it is a huge company and the service is good.
Only on /digitalnomad do I find so many criticisms of Airbnb. Almost everyone I talk to has no major problems.
Aside from the fact that it is OBVIOUSLY not intended for digital nomads, most people use it for tourism. But even so, I have been an Airbnb customer for years and I cannot complain, I have had better or worse experiences, of course, they are not hotels.
don't blame customer service people for bad service. guess who deliberately trained them that way?
I used to believe that a company could succeed by catering to digital nomads. Then I came to this forum and quickly realized that no company could possibly please the DN (Douchebag Nerd) community.
Just look at the replies to this thread. A hundred assholes who all want something different.
They’re ultimately just another OTA. They don’t need to be “replaced” per se. Just use any of the other OTAs like booking.com, Expedia group, etc.
What, like Marriott?
Not sure eif just hotel joke, but Marriott does actually have an AirBNB competitor platform, but with stricter acceptence.
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