Any of Airbnb's competitors are going to use this to their advantage. Rightfully so too... I didn't even know about Roomorama until this story.
The biggest part of the story though was thrown in at the end:
The harrowing story of the Airbnb user EJ prompted Ms. En Teo to reach out to her competitors in order to set a precedent for sharing information about sketchy users, so if she gets a report about misbehavior she can send an alert to get him or her banned from other sites. Incidents like this hurt the entire market as well as individual users, she said.
Some kind of data sharing would be a great thing for this industry as they are all vulnerable to the same problems (theft, etc...).
The biggest part of the story though was thrown in at the end:
The harrowing story of the Airbnb user EJ prompted Ms. En Teo to reach out to her competitors in order to set a precedent for sharing information about sketchy users, so if she gets a report about misbehavior she can send an alert to get him or her banned from other sites. Incidents like this hurt the entire market as well as individual users, she said.
Some kind of data sharing would be a great thing for this industry as they are all vulnerable to the same problems (theft, etc...).