Howard J.

If I had a bicycle that I wanted to sell and I PAID for an ad in the Sunday newspaper and found a buyer, I would be pleased that the business model that has worked for the last hundred years has worked again. But then imagine the newspaper stepping in and trying to charge the person buying the bicycle an outrageous fee for reading the newspaper and buying my bicycle.

Someone at the newspaper would undoubtedly be deemed an abject idiot. Such is (apparently) Brian Sharpies at HomeAway. After many years as a customer offering my property through HomeAway, I would no more accept the new program of ripping off customers than I would accept a plan where I subsidized the robbers that mugged me on the street.

I will NOT deal with HomeAway or VRBO or any of their affiliated thieves until Brian Sharpies is gone and someone sober takes the reins. I'll let my property sit empty. I'll list it with lesser known, but more reputable companies than allow these thieves to extort my customers.

As John Paul Jones said, "I have not yet begun to fight!"