When I try to find a place to stay on Airbnb it looks like the prices are higher than what I can find on hotels.com or booking.com.

And the web site is useless. There is no option to sort by price, the filters for maximum price don't work.

It's going to have to be cheaper than a hotel or B&B to make it worth taking the risk and I'll have to be able to find it without scrolling all the way through the site.

So far I haven't found a compelling reason to try it regardless of the horror stories.