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$37 Uber into DC cost $150 on the way back. some sweet price gouging by them (400%) but it wasn't nearly as bad as some other cities i read about (up to 900% increases)
Surge pricing sucks. It's one of the few things that cab companies have an advantage on.
I took Uber home on NYD after watching football and the price was about the same. I live in a hick beach town, so...
the surge pricing only applied to nye when a billion people were looking for rides
I wouldn't doubt that NYD wouldn't have been close to the same in any of the big cities. We took it at 1:30am when demand was high. I get the whole supply and demand thing and respect it to a certain point, but the numbers that Uber was using were gouging plain and simple.
i just calculated the trip back
they charged $5.88 a mile....lol jesus
I used Uber once in NYC over the summer. Was looking for a cab and he was parked on the street, so we hoped in. 6-8 blocks to our hotel and dude asked me for $25. Farging rip off.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 04, 2016, 09:47:15 AM
I used Uber once in NYC over the summer. Was looking for a cab and he was parked on the street, so we hoped in. 6-8 blocks to our hotel and dude asked me for $25. Farging rip off.
you didn't do it right if it went as you described. you can get a fare estimate from Uber on the app before ordering a ride. sounds like this guy saw you looking for a cab and offered you a ride and you didn't go through the app? he took the money all for himself and didn't go through Uber. Uber is normally way cheaper than a cab
It's $20 by cab from the pub to my house and $10 using Uber.
Again, hick town but still. The gouging is really disgusting, though. Uber is supposed to be better than that. Shocking that it turns out they'd gladly stick it up your ass lubeless like any other cabbie.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 04, 2016, 09:47:15 AM
I used Uber once in NYC over the summer. Was looking for a cab and he was parked on the street, so we hoped in. 6-8 blocks to our hotel and dude asked me for $25. Farging rip off.
ha yeah thats not how uber works dummy.
I know they are app based, which kind of threw me when dude was just chilling looking for a fare, but this dude had an Uber sticker/id photo so I rolled with it. Are Uber drivers not allowed to pick up fares outside of the app?
Technically they can't operate as a taxi (where they wait for you to jump in and then charge you for the trip). They are a ride sharing platform, and they must be called via the app using an "agreed upon" price. The way Sarge did it is illegal for an Uber driver to do.
BTW...my son and his friends took one on Halloween from Fishtown to Essington. I think the fare was $120. They saw the warning on the app about surge pricing (moe concert in town and Army/Navy folks everywhere)...and they were too drunk to realize what it meant. The same ride in a price-controlled cab would have been maybe half that much. With tip.
Ok, I had no idea that they couldn't operate as a regular taxi. I knew I was getting ripped, so I guess it doesn't really matter if dude was operating illegal or not. At least now I know not to just hop in an Uber unless I've gone through the app.
if they're picking people up outside the app just report them to uber. bye bye douchebag.
This happened in July so....
nothing wrong with going outside the app....everyone wins....most times your ride is cheaper....you just gotta make sure they tell you ahead of time how much its gonna be...if you had asked the dood how much theres no way he says 25 bucks
my question is why would you ever take a cab six blocks in nyc...that might be a five minute walk
It was late....around midnight and we walked pretty much the entire day. My back/knees/feet were shot, kids were beat. We hadn't taken a cab all day and I just wanted to get to the hotel as quick as possible. In that regard, it was well worth the money even if it was a total rip off.
Blocks in New York are 1/10th mile each. That means Sassy would have to walk hammered at a pace that is better than a 10 minute mile.
I'm thinking probably not, but he is an ex-Marine, so...
Even if it's a ten minute walk, taking a cab makes you a lazy motherfarger.
The rating system in the app is pretty important to Uber functioning, it's what keeps the quality high and singlehandedly replaces all the normal taxi regulation. You can use Uber guys outside of the app, but they could be fake Uber drivers or guys who were banned from driving for them for one reason or another. It's fine to use them as a gypsy cab but expect gypsy cab service, safety, and prices... it's not really Uber when you use it like that.
Using somebody outside of the app could be Bad News if there is an accident. Uber covers their drivers and passengers fairly well. I'm going to go ahead and assume that the gypsy drivers don't have the best coverage.
farg uber....they could give a rats ass about their "employees"....id rather take an off app ride and hook the driver up with the fare and a fat tip
this cat me and sunny know literally won the east coast uber driver of the year a couple of years ago and he says people go off the app all the time (even he does it) and that your chances of a bad ride are no lower or higher than riding in a cab...yeah you might not get sucked up to like a driver who wants a good review but you also might get sucked up to more because they want a tip which normal uber drivers arent supposed to get...but the ride itself is no different...the key he says is to make sure you get your price quoted before hand
i cant deny the convienance of uber outside the cities...its soooo much easier than having to call a cab company but in a city i would always take a cab over uber
an uber costs me between 6-8 bucks to get from my house to my girl's in cap hill, a cab costs $20+. so i don't take cabs anymore.
Quote from: rjs246 on January 04, 2016, 02:00:19 PM
Even if it's a ten minute walk, taking a cab makes you a lazy motherfarger.
theres certain areas where the blocks are larger like in the LES and downtown...but its just as quick to walk six blocks than to take a cab in 90% of manhattan...and where it isnt like you said it might be ten minutes instead of five....if sarge physically couldnt walk or you are a 105 year old women i get it but otherwise i would be validly embarrassed to even hail a cab to go six blocks
Yeah, I was mostly dead. My back, knees, and feet are pretty farged from the military and 12+ hrs on my feet just isn't something I really do any more.