AirBnB and Amazon – which one do you reckon is doing the most harm to the world? Or, as I am feeling today, which one would you least want to touch with a barge-pole?

Towards the end of last year, I spent several months trying to have a conversation with AirBnB about their alleged platforming of stolen properties being offered as holiday lets. It did not go well, and I closed my listing. You can read about that here

Yesterday, I got my answer from elsewhere when I discovered that GLAN, amongst others, is taking AirBnB to court for just that.

And then this morning, I get an email from AirBnB inviting me to complete a former hosts survey, the reward for which is an Amazon Gift card.

The trouble is, I am also trying to boycott Amazon, for similar reasons (that’s quite easy usually. I love libraries and indie bookshops).

So, dear reader, do I explain why I don’t want the gift card, but do the survey? (I expect they have a filter-system that’d reject my participation).

Do the survey, accept the gift-card and buy a book about the harms done to us all by corporate culture, and review it on Amazon afterwards, recommending that people get it from the library or their local bookshop? (I expect they have a filter system that prevents people saying that).

Do the survey, accept the gift-card and buy myself a present to make up for all the grief?

Say a plague on both your houses, ignore the survey, go down the library, find a nice book and take it to the nearest indie cafe for a nice coffee?

Answers (and anything else you’d like to say) on a post card to — well, both the Irish and the London addresses of AirBnB are eminently Googleable.

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