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Jim the 99th person to join the Couch Surfing Project and former CS employee is paywalled.
CS either never saw it or just ignored it.
CS either never saw it or if they did, then just ignored it.
They'll just block his account. They did mine when I was like why am I blocked from seeing my own data.
I was verified in 2007 and hosted hundreds of people in my time. When they started requiring us to pay I never went back.
It's a post from 3 years ago...
...when CS was paywalled just from 1 year.
Now it's been 4 years 😂
Aren't you a bit late with this post?
Couchsurfing is over
Tell that to the 2 surfers I hosted last night.
Uh no.....plenty use it...
It would be great if all of us move to couchers, but its so very difficult that really happen :(
It's happening slowly but surely.
Couchers is not as instructive as Couchsurfing. Also for men if we send messages to at least 2 women, our account gets blocked.
As we all know, for a single man it's very difficult to be accepted by men.
Lol os that true?
Couchers has a radical feminist problem.
Yep, I used to host hundreds of people but then CS got greedy and paywalled me. I had only ever hosted people. Pretty stupid to cut off hosts… it’s a pretty big part of their business model. Stupid!
The question someone could ask is: did he not ever email anyone at CS or even [email protected]? They have been known to give complementary subscriptions/verification to legacy members like Jim.
I worked for CS and helped build the website. Still charged to be verified lmao. Jokers
For Christs sakes, when will these posts about lamenting a small charge to use this service finally end. Just don't use the service if you don't want to pay, it's that easy
Because lots of CSers still didnt figured out thay the founders sold the NGO and this is now probably owned by Airbnb or somethin?
I really hate the "wHy u CoMpLaIn" comments. Its like dude, dont force other people to have your low standards and passive attitude to life...
But that ( "sold Couchsurfing and it's now owned by....etc..") happened in 2014...they didn't figured out yet ?
You will be surprised at the amount of old and new people being oblivious to this and still believing old legends about the "community".
Dude if you think this issue of a small charge is worth hand wringing over and somehow that makes you more engaged with life, then you really sweat the small stuff and need to get some perspective. Get out there and do some traveling and quit worrying about things that can't be changed and really don't matter at all.
People have different life condotions and ethical standards. If you fail to see the issue with this small charge, you simply are too low on the pyramid as to undedstand the value of principles and simple trust bwtween individuals in a civilized world.
Why I do even have to waste time.talkin to you here since you will just.miss it all anyways? Lol
I agree with this, but complaining on internet everyday won’t change the situation
Voicing something is the first step. If you dontneven conplain you will never do anything at all, and will just fall into oblivion with a bunch of psychological traumas of repressed emotions while the world keep fucking you till u dead...
Right, but we’ve been on this step for five years now, maybe it’s time to move on
You have been. Others not, as some people are still writing.
Dont invalidate other people because you have seen or choose to ignore something
Smug. Arrogant. Indignant.
Says the one thinking of himself as entilted enough as to invalidate people's opinions because he's used to the shitty tratment himself.....
2010 for me
Yup, I was lifetime verified in 2008 as well but have to pay.
I donated from the start, even before they had a paid system. Now I just pay every year. Usually, I pay what I would pay for one nights accommodation in a 3-star hotel.
I don't use CS for "free travel." I use it to meet interesting people. But since I do save money, I put that towards the running of the company.
Susan Ireland
Everyone has no idea how much of that money is actually going to running the company. I have never found any financial accounts for the company. If you do send me a link.
Dan Wales
I have no problem with them making a profit, either! If they make millions and I still only pay the price of one night in a hotel, I'm fine with that.
Only publicly traded companies are required to have that level of transparency. Since they're not public, I wouldn't expect their books to be open to viewing.
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When they claim we have trouble with our finances...now we are going to prevent you from seeing your own data; I think it's a different story. I agree with you if it's just a normal company.
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This is from 2021, do we know how this ended?