All the sharing stuff is going under (cars, bikes, etc) Except for airbnb which has been profitable for two years now. Aren't these guys highly educated geniuses? Or just really good salesmen?
All the sharing stuff is going under (cars, bikes, etc) Except for airbnb which has been profitable for two years now. Aren't these guys highly educated geniuses? Or just really good salesmen?
Monkey see, monkey do. The parallels to the late 1990's are impossible to ignore.
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You'd have thought Uber would have had a trouble getting enough takers but sure enough . . .Original Post Deleted
Interesting to hear about a new app that is catching on in Australia called "Car Next Door". A bit like airbnb for cars. Basically you can earn something like AUD$3,000 to $10,000 per year just renting out your car to strangers. Or opposite view, you don't need to buy a car anymore and can just rent from a person in your street/neighbourhood. Think about it, if you need a car for a few hours, fire up the app, walk to someones house in your street/neighbourhood, borrow their car, return it when you are done.
Car next door say they have insurance for every single trip and everyone is covered. They have done it the legal way. Even government departments and motoring bodies are praising the service and claim it has benefits like reducing the overall number of cars registered and better for people to share. The sharing economy is fully embraced in Australia now, even walking through a shopping mall you will see information desks and sign posts that point you to UBER and OLA stands as well as the old fashion taxi stands. Only HK that is so far behind.
With car next door, the car owners need to register their vehicle, cars are fitted with GPS trackers etc, the car keys are in some kind of pouch or something that hangs on the outside of the car. The car owners don't need to be at home or whatever to handover keys etc to the renters at the time. You are right that there needs to be enough cars available otherwise it's pointless, but it seems to have built up traction and obtained this now, with over 300,000 trips taken now.
As an example, see below all the cars available in Sydney now from $6 per hour, plus you pay per Km driven which I think includes fuel, so the owner responsible for filling up.
From a car next door review I found browsing the available cars.
Who doesn't want to fix somebody else's car at one's own expense for $55 a day + $0.50 per kilometer. Why use a proper rental company when you can get a filthy piece of shit from a "real person"For piece of mind we called ‘car next door to ask for advice’. They rudely advised. ‘ its not the end of the world and anything that happens to the car whilst i was driving was my responsibility and i would either have to call the RACV or take it to a garage and get it repaired at my expense!
I've only very recently heard about car next door and neither praising it or trashing it. But definitely an interesting business model. Just like airbnb taking away business from hotels, this would appear to be competing with rental car companies. But a real advantage with car next door being the cars should be available close by in your street/neighbourhood so easier to grab for a few hours here and there.
If anything happens the car whilst driving it, well regardless of whether its a rental or a private 'car next door' you are going to be inconvenienced either way.
With a rental you usually have comprehensive insurance and mechanical faults aren't your problem either. A proper rental company will also arrange a replacement rather quick and usually has cleanish cars.
The biggest problem with the sharing economy is that the price difference doesn't make up for the difference in product quality. $55 + $0.45 per km isn't cheap for a medium sized car and neither are most Airbnb) But maybe their clientele doesn't expect clean cars, clean flats, proper service or a complaint procedure that isn't rage inducing as long as it's from a "real person" with "authentic stories" or whatever.