Originally Posted by
PayItForward
It is just a deposit. Guest do get drunk. Guest do trash room. Even Elite members. Should they now do profiling at checkin to determine who is high risk, who might smoke pot in the room etc and then get accused of being bias, prejudiced, racists, bigots, ?? haters etc?
I take your point there. Personally I'd prefer more of an escrow model where both customer and business have funds at stake which could be distributed in case of a dispute by an arbitrator. In a sense this is what a credit card company provides, except that, as we saw recently on this board, Hilton freeze accounts that initiate chargebacks, essentially defeating this form of restitution.