Yeah, because Craigslist actually facilitated the transaction between buyer and seller. They were a pure example of a "dumb pipe", designed to do just one thing.
I booked plenty of spare rooms and apartments on CL back in the 2000s. Send an email, chat briefly on the phone, done deal. No muss, no fuss.
Airbnb wants to control every aspect of the transaction, from payment, to even simply communicating with the host; everything has to go through their channels.
Beyond that, they've tried to become a hotel company without offering protections for hosts, or following any of the regulations that hotels do, until events force them to act otherwise (wild parties resulting in damages, the recent shootings at a US and then at a Toronto location).
Unsurprisingly, they are now stonewalling both hosts and guests on cancellation refunds. Do a search for "bchesky" on Twitter; there are thousands of tweets from people who are out significant amounts of money.
I booked plenty of spare rooms and apartments on CL back in the 2000s. Send an email, chat briefly on the phone, done deal. No muss, no fuss.
Airbnb wants to control every aspect of the transaction, from payment, to even simply communicating with the host; everything has to go through their channels.
Beyond that, they've tried to become a hotel company without offering protections for hosts, or following any of the regulations that hotels do, until events force them to act otherwise (wild parties resulting in damages, the recent shootings at a US and then at a Toronto location).
Unsurprisingly, they are now stonewalling both hosts and guests on cancellation refunds. Do a search for "bchesky" on Twitter; there are thousands of tweets from people who are out significant amounts of money.