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Title: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: silverbullet on March 10, 2020, 04:49:20 pm: Daily Mail: Uber, Lyft price surge as New Yorkers urged to avoid subway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8092525/Uber-Lyft-price-surge-New-Yorkers-urged-avoid-subway.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8092525/Uber-Lyft-price-surge-New-Yorkers-urged-avoid-subway.html)
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on March 10, 2020, 05:49:44 pm: it's a mystery why the jews were ran out of every country is'nt it.
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 11, 2020, 12:43:36 am: I'm told Free Now's Kapten_ was charging STG£20/mile when Uber went off air last week in London. How come they can surge their rates on the mainland yet we have to work for buttons regardless of demand?
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Bob Shillin on March 11, 2020, 01:06:46 am: Quote from: Rat Catcher on March 11, 2020, 12:43:36 am
I'm told Free Now's Kapten_ was charging STG£20/mile when Uber went off air last week in London. How come they can surge their rates on the mainland yet we have to work for buttons regardless of demand?
Surrender your taxi licence, and get a limo licence. "Fare by agreement"
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: dublin2018 on March 11, 2020, 03:10:04 am: Uber and freenow are scum.Leaches of the recommended national taxi-fare, in line with cost of running a taxi.I couldn't careless what those apps do .They not getting 15% of my hard earned money.Id rather have less money then do that dirty work sickening even thinking about it, and in other post they ranking you when they robbing you...wakeup and see where this goes CONTROL....
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 11, 2020, 05:55:55 pm: Does Free Now have surge pricing for "limousines", BS?

... and why would I surrender my taxi licence, I could just rent it out to an immigrant...
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Bob Shillin on March 11, 2020, 06:34:09 pm: Quote from: Rat Catcher on March 11, 2020, 05:55:55 pm
Does Free Now have surge pricing for "limousines", BS?

... and why would I surrender my taxi licence, I could just rent it out to an immigrant...
As I said, I thought that the limo/ hackney rule was "fare by agreement" with the client, didn't think that FN had an input.
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 12, 2020, 12:58:41 pm: Free Now dictate the fare for the work they dispatch. They use a huge amount of clapped out shiteboxes masquerading as limousines to cover taxi fares up above in Dublin with the fare calculated via a virtual meter.
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: U Wha on March 13, 2020, 05:51:29 pm: Quote from: Rat Catcher on March 12, 2020, 12:58:41 pm
Free Now dictate the fare for the work they dispatch. They use a huge amount of clapped out shiteboxes masquerading as limousines to cover taxi fares up above in Dublin with the fare calculated via a virtual meter.

I know.it happens but technically illegal isnt it? Meant to agree.fare.before.journey.commences.
Title: Re: Rip off merchants Uber/Lyft
Post by: Rat Catcher on March 14, 2020, 06:48:27 pm: Debatable. It was challenged in court in the UK - in respect of London which has similar regulations to us insofar as only a licensed taxi can use a meter. The court ruled in favour of PHVs using virtual meters as they are not meters as laid down in regulation and it was considered sufficient that the basis for computation of fares be agreed (or specified) in advance of a private hire.