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Angela Taylor (RedANT)
Ride Scholar from Seattle
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The Uber driver app in the Google Play store has a rating of 4.4/5 stars. I posted a comment/rating on Google Play:
Me: "If drivers have a 4.4/5 star rating, Uber calls us failures and deactivates us. Why is this rating acceptable or different?"
Uber: "Hi RedANT. This doesn't sound right. We want to take a closer look into this for you. Please send a quick note to t.uber.con/drivercontact so we can connect."
(Needless to say, I did NOT contact them with my real information)
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Old system:
$25 trip @ 2x surge = Passenger pays $50 (driver made approx 65% of the total = $32.50, and Uber/Lyft made approx 35% of the total = $17.50)
New system:
$25 trip @ 2x surge = Passenger still pays $50 (Driver makes 65% of $25 = $16.25 + a $2.50 fixed "surge" = $18.75 earned by driver. Uber/Lyft collect the balance of $50 - $18.75 paid to driver = $31.25 = approx 63%) Driver pays for 100% of their car payment, insurance, gas, and maintenance. Uber/Lyft does nothing but change policies and adjust app settings to increase their share. Passengers get fleeced.* Please note that all numbers are approximate, and will vary greatly depending on the area you're in.
** Driver pay was previously paid based on a per minute rate + mileage rate + surge multiplier.
Pay is now based on a per minute rate + mileage rate + a flat surge fee that is a fraction of the former multiplier payout. This change effectively increases Uber and Lyfts share of the fares significantly, taking money out of driver pockets and increasing company revenue. Regardless, I'd bet that Uber and Lyft will still post huge Q1 losses as they head into their respective IPOs.
This is why drivers are pissed. (And rightfully so)
LOL. Lyft is just as bad, and often worse.
My experience has always been that unless you have a long trip notification with that pickup "premium" notification, you're probably best off not accepting it. In EVERY instance where I fell for this trick I ended up with a long distance to pickup, short distance trip, and no tip. EVER. It was then that I realized that the reason the pickup was so far away was because nobody else wanted to take it because it was a "bad" run.
You realize that unlike taxis, which are rented, as an Uber/Lyft driver I'm transporting you in the vehicle that I purchased with my own money, right? A taxi is a company owned asset that the taxi driver can forget about after their shift, but if your stinky, wet "service dog" stinks up my car, the next people to ride in that spot are my grandkids with allergies, etc., right?
The ADA says that I'm required to transport a service animal regardless of how it'll affect me. All I can hope for is that I can drop you off and air out the car before my eyes swell shut and I kill my family while driving to the hospital to treat my severe allergic reaction. (but of course, you, like all the others, really don't care about the consequences for drivers)
I've used my JCB in Japan.
If you give a driver a bad rating, your quest for a different driver can also cause someone to lose their job and possibly their ability to support their family. Is choosing a specific driver really worth that? I've had people make false accusations against me, the last time which cost me almost a weeks earnings. ($1k) The accusation: I was driving drunk. (I quit drinking 38 years ago, and have ZERO tickets or accidents in over 40 years of driving)
FWIW, to "un match" drivers you generally need to rate them ONE STAR, so your rating is VERY substantial and will probably follow your driver long term. (up to a year)
Unfortunately, as much as we wish passengers would stand with us, the opposite is actually true. They don't care who is making the money, THEY JUST CARE ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY'RE PAYING. It's the reason that Pool and Shared rides are taking off. People want cheap, and they don't care if you and I go out of business as long as they save a buck.
If you have to pay cash, you need to get a taxi. Rideshare is all electronic payment via credit/debit card.
XL
I turn on the cabin lights upon arrival. If they don't respond, I'll call out their name. If that doesn't help, I keep an air horn in my glove box and blow that bitch in the car. If that doesn't work, call 911 because they're probably dead.
LOL. If you need a disabled grandmother with a cane to walk you to your door in the rain for a $3 ride, you have bigger problems than I can ever help you with.
Seattle
Grossing $1k per week is absolutely possible in select cities if you run Uber and Lyft. This week I made $432 Uber and $191 Lyft, and only spent 17 hrs in the car. If I put in 30 hrs a week, I can almost guarantee $1k gross.
Now that upfront pricing has spread nationwide and surge/prime time have pretty much been eliminated, I'd be curious to see how many drivers still think positively of the rideshare companies. It's sad that so many people are willfully ignorant to how things really are run.
"Anonymous Rider" and his bogus questions again. Please stop.
LOL at Uber spending $100 Million on a scooter business. With real leadership they could have done it for less than 1% of that cost. Sounds like someone at Jump Bikes had connections at Uber.
WTF is up with all of your random questions about random cities? Do you think we just do this for shits and grins and have nothing better to do?
In the last 3 weeks you've posed specific questions about more than a dozen cities. I reviewed your post history. Where are you really from?
Coconut Creek, FL? Atlanta? Akron? Cleveland? Amsterdam? Las Vegas? New Orleans? Sydney? Wilmington? San Diego? Vancouver? Miami? Toronto? Orlando? Seattle? Papeete? NYC? Providence? Pittsburgh?
If this is an example of the content at Rideguru, this whole forum is nothing but a waste of our time.
How was he whining? Did you call him, or did he contact you? He's not legally obligated to rive you a ride, and if your meeting was that important, you should have arranged more reliable transportation.
If we're going to start suing for being "unreliable," I'm going to go back and find all the passengers who promised to tip me and never did.
Let me ask you a question: Would you allow someone to puke in your car and have that smell in your car forever for $150? HELL NO.
And those are before expenses like car payments, insurance, gas, maintenance, oil changes, etc.
The number for Seattle is really low. I'd suspect that the only ones earning that little are the ones that hang out at the airport. Even daytime drivers during the winter months make more than that.