Holly Martin (HollyMartin)

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  UBER price gouging its Riders with Fake Surges in Santa Monica and West Hollywood ( Los Angeles) California. BEWARE!

  Riders Beware:  ( Posted from an UBER Driver)Since the roll-out  of the update last week, all of the sudden …
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  Fake surges going on for over and hour and drivers in that area not being able to catch a ride in that busy area at all during the surge- (Los Angeles)-Total manipulation of riders and drivers.

  Drivers and (Riders) Beware:Since the roll-out  of the update last week, all of the sudden in Santa Monica where …
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  UBER preventing drivers from accepting rides in surge on Los Angeles--going on for hours! UBER says it's normal and not a scam

  Drivers and (Riders) Beware:Since the roll-out  of the update last week, all of the sudden in Santa Monica where …

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   4 years ago in  UBER price gouging its Riders with Fake Surges in Santa Monica and West Hollywood ( Los Angeles) California. BEWARE!

  SMFH.  Are a complete  MORON?  

  NO.  When you live in Los Angeles and all the areas are surging for HOURS and there is literally no place else to drive, and you still can't get a ride? That's a deliberate algorithmic manipulation.  It's impossible to have a high demand where the surge goes up and there is no relief. Taking drivers that are in the area off the que of available cars is fraud.  It's  a false surge to make the rider pay more--when all the cars are there to pick them up--but they aren't matching you with riders. Drivers show they are online, but can't get a ride.  It's fraud. 

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  A surge only occurs because the demand is too high for the supply--meaning there are too many ride requests and not enough drivers to accommodate those requests.  A real surge ends -- when the demands are met, because drivers are matched with riders and people get where they are going.  Upon this truth, you must deduce that a surge shouldn't go on for hours when there are drivers  online, available in the surge area (for hours), and yet  they can't pick up one ride.  That is a manipulation on the app to shadow ban drivers.  We are available on our app--but do no show up as available on the rider's app.

  You obviously don't drive for UBER or live in Los Angeles, because if you did--you'd know EXACTLY what I am taking about right now. I live in and drive in the area I speak of,. There is nowhere else to go, I don't  drive to go into them (Surges)--I'm always in them.

  
  

  Also what would Uber get from that? Creating these "fake demands"?  It should be self evident--postulate an intelligent answer.   Figure it out. When drivers are being selectively removed from the que--that's an algorithm at work,  If they are doing that--who knows what else they are doing. It's total fake manipulation, and they can make any reality  they want. Look at a past legal case where UBER was proven to be charging the rider one thing and the driver had a different fare breakdown from the rider.

  
  

  4.89 is not a low rating.

  
  

  
  

  P.s.  Since I posted this --it's still going on.  This is serious Sh*T.  Everyone in there own areas needs to be documenting this.

  
  

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