Reservation Scalping Startup Founder Defends Service as
"Ethical"  ReservationHop only made it an hour after launching
before the criticism to start pouring in. Twitter users were
outraged. One restaurateur described the service as "disgusting
and hurtful." Even TechCrunch couldn't stomach what
ReservationHop was selling.  Normally, a founder facing such
backlash would shut down their Frankenstein. Not so for the
restaurant reservation scalping site's founder Brian Mayer: he
quickly defended his vulture economy startup as "ethical."  In a
blog post titled "How I Became the Most Hated Person in San
Francisco, for a Day," Mayer confidently and proudly aligns
himself with the likes of tech monsters Peter Shih and Greg
Gopman. His reason for being so smug? The hits are pouring in
and people are buying up the reservations he's squatting on.
What about ethics? We are talking about an asset that most
people don't think about having a value. That doesn't
necessarily mean that it doesn't have a value, or that people