Apparently, the kind of people that go hard on discounts are drastically more likely to behave like psychopaths.
Kendric Tonn: Relatedly, I learned very quickly running my Airbnb to never, ever offer discounts. Guests shopping for discounts were, next-to-universally, disruptive, destructive, and generally the scum of the earth. I will never hit that "run a promotion!" button again.
This is, incidentally, independent of the actual price point. I might manually drop my price 10-20% if it looks like the BnB is likely to go empty, and that's fine: just as long as I don't show up in searches for discounted rooms.
Recently I've been scammed into a subscription by [company that I will not name nor link to because I don't want to give them more airtime than they already have] a satellite and over-the-internet TV provider. The way the scam works is:
- Offer a 3 months free trial
- Sent an email that begs a trial user to stay on as paying customer.
- In the background, continue the subscription anyway.
- After one more month start sending threatening emails and texts that will ruin your consumer credit rating if they don't cough up the money (and charge extra for recuperation costs)
- Profit 🤑🤑🤑
Now, they probably see themselves as a service provider and the victims of a non-paying "toxic" customer: me.
Both they and I would have been happier if I had paid from the very beginning and simply canceled my plan after one disappointing month (the TV app works fine but there is just nothing with watching anymore).
