I’ve never been to a restaurant with fees and if I ever found one, I wouldn’t be going there. I rarely eat out anymore at all though. High prices for mediocre food and mediocre service keep me away.
Am I the only one? The whole thing of charging 4% if someone’s paying by credit card, because that’s what it costs to run their credit card, makes perfect sense to me.
Maybe it is because I used to be involved with a business that paid credit card fees. What we eventually wound up doing was publishing prices that were nice round numbers that roughly included the CC fees, giving a discount below the published prices for cash payments, and including a separate 3% CC fee onto custom quotes that were itemized, if people were paying with a card. That seemed like a pretty solid system. But yeah I definitely get it if a restaurant wants to say that there’s a certain percent fee if you’re paying with a card.
Should be allowed to return products at a full refund when they do something like this, and for an additional 25% value in a gift card for the inconvenience.
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AirBnB is a great idea that turned to shit because of greed.
Someone wants a platform to rent out…
Their cottage when they’re not using it or lending it to family or friends
Their home while they’re away on vacation
A room in their home to run as a Bed-N-Breakfast
Great. Marvelous, even.
But then people realized that they could make more money from a property by AirBnBing it out rather than renting it out. So people start kicking out tenants and buying up properties to turn housing into AirBnBs, and often in areas that were already experiencing cost-of-living issues for locals.
From there, I’m guessing that AirBnB started trying to take a bigger slice of the pie, and “Hosts” started passing on the costs to “Guests”. At the same time, “Hosts” wanted more money with less work, so “Guests” started getting cleaning lists so the “Hosts” wouldn’t have to pay cleaners – just someone to come by and make sure everything was done, and call a cleaner if it wasn’t (and charge the “Guest” for it).
Enshittification hit AirBnB hard…and in turn, living within driving distance of anywhere tourists would want to be also got enshittified.
Badlahoma things. What to expect from a state that extolled the virtues of oil industry for primary school children but forbids teaching about climate change?
WTF would you expect from a group that teaches that gender is defined by God and God says there’s only two and that your gender is part of your spirit?
criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack.
I can’t think of anyone whose opinion I value less on this topic.
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