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Title: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on May 29, 2022, 07:55:35 pm
Three and a half hours without the App'. All very fine when you're in town, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, get out to the suburbs and it's a pain in the hoop.

Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on May 30, 2022, 12:02:04 am
was jammin up regularly last night.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Rat Catcher on May 31, 2022, 12:28:10 pm
Was Bolt working?
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on May 31, 2022, 02:37:43 pm
Was Bolt working?
Absolutely nuts I hear.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Belker on June 01, 2022, 09:00:05 am
Three and a half hours without the App'. All very fine when you're in town, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, get out to the suburbs and it's a pain in the hoop.
It never actually crashed down here but got a few strange 'Job cancelled' messages even though I had never accepted any job ?
I too enjoy the southside Cork burb work during the jungle hours as long as it is on card and not crossing the river, anything over 2km away on cash without the 'reliable customer' tab gets cancelled, especially with a Hollywood name !
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Horse on June 04, 2022, 01:30:01 pm
My app updated yesterday.  I switched it on today and it was trying to send me jobs on the northside.  I'm on the southside. Every job must have been at least 20 miles away. I finally accepted one that was near enough and the bottom half of the screen went white. I ended up cancelling the job and switching off the app. What the flook have they done to it?
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: vandriver on June 04, 2022, 02:03:26 pm
Welcome to our world.
I switch it off after 11 on a busy night because it's absolutely un-usable.
Every rejected job freezes the app,and you have to restart it.
Sometimes when you switch it back on up to 30 stacked jobs are on your screen,that you have to clear before you can try using it again.
It's a fucking shambles.Thank god that the other apps have plenty of work.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Octavia1 on June 04, 2022, 02:40:33 pm
I see they've dispensed wit the distance the ape is hailing from ????? ....absolutely useless .... >:( :(


(https://i.postimg.cc/McNMN5Yp/Screenshot-20220604-143632-FREE-NOW.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/McNMN5Yp)
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Octavia1 on June 04, 2022, 02:42:57 pm

(https://i.postimg.cc/GHmDB49r/Screenshot-20220604-144202-FREE-NOW.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/GHmDB49r)
.even worse
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Mytaxi007 on June 04, 2022, 03:38:02 pm
Welcome to our world.
I switch it off after 11 on a busy night because it's absolutely un-usable.
Every rejected job freezes the app,and you have to restart it.
Sometimes when you switch it back on up to 30 stacked jobs are on your screen,that you have to clear before you can try using it again.
It's a fucking shambles.Thank god that the other apps have plenty of work.



Totally agree.. you ring them and tell them...they don't give a fuck

Fix rhe basics on the app 1st before you start adding in bonus shit to the shitfest it is on busy periods.

The bonus thing  is obviously  a ploy to get drivers to do jobs big and small during peak times as customers on to them saying drivers won't do short jobs or watever

Sort out the fucking app arseholes
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 04, 2022, 03:38:25 pm
I see they've dispensed wit the distance the ape is hailing from ????? ....absolutely useless .... >:( :(


(https://i.postimg.cc/McNMN5Yp/Screenshot-20220604-143632-FREE-NOW.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/McNMN5Yp)
They're dreadful.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Mytaxi007 on June 04, 2022, 03:39:08 pm
Also if ya do ring ya get some oil rigger  on the fone who hasn't a fucking clue how the app even works himself and he's always on loudspeaker,da fuck u saying pal
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Octavia1 on June 04, 2022, 03:52:46 pm
Tink I'll put this weekend down to a loss .....day work anyway ..fleenow is fuked an won't tell me wer the apes are or want to go .....uber is offering me jobs 15 miles away ...bolt is gone quiet ....so I tried a street job an got caut in town traffic for 7 euro .....
...tink the only ting for it is tonite dealin wit the piss heads ....but can't be arsed wit that bollix ....
I suppose it'll be all over the Papers Tuesday that thers no taxis  oops

Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 04, 2022, 04:01:54 pm
Tink I'll put this weekend down to a loss .....day work anyway ..fleenow is fuked an won't tell me wer the apes are or want to go .....uber is offering me jobs 15 miles away ...bolt is gone quiet ....so I tried a street job an got caut in town traffic for 7 euro .....
...tink the only ting for it is tonite dealin wit the piss heads ....but can't be arsed wit that bollix ....
I suppose it'll be all over the Papers Tuesday that thers no taxis  oops
St Anne's Park will be heaving tonight with Housemartins fans, plus Deacon Blue.

Lionel Richie tomorrow night, so I imagine the love of your life will be wanting to go:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-lionel-richie-jimmy-fallon-reimagine-hello-video-68768/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-lionel-richie-jimmy-fallon-reimagine-hello-video-68768/) 8)
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Octavia1 on June 04, 2022, 04:07:46 pm
Got freenow working ....

reboot yur phone .....

I think its having trouble wit  map location.........
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 04, 2022, 04:31:31 pm
Got freenow working ....

reboot yur phone .....

I think its having trouble wit  map location.........
Download Waze.ie
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Mytaxi007 on June 05, 2022, 06:11:32 am
Another night of a shit preforming app
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Shallow Hal on June 05, 2022, 10:59:52 am
Thank fuk I don't work nights anymore,the app is bad enough around town at 8 in the morning.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Taxi driver42 on June 05, 2022, 12:40:16 pm
Fuck the app
Leave it off when busy
Put it on when u rank
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: John m on June 05, 2022, 02:21:56 pm
HOW DO YOU REQUEST A SCRUB FEE .Step by step for the idiots please .
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 05, 2022, 02:24:25 pm
HOW DO YOU REQUEST A SCRUB FEE .Step by step for the idiots please .
Click on the job

Click help

A box will appear

Type Please Apply Cancellation Fee - send.

You should receive a confirmation email that your request has been received.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: John m on June 05, 2022, 02:29:37 pm
is that the little message icon on the bottom right of the screen ?
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 05, 2022, 02:31:56 pm
is that the little message icon on the bottom right of the screen ?
The icon is blue and top right IIRC.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Malone on June 05, 2022, 02:36:03 pm
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY
just before someone asks.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: John m on June 05, 2022, 02:36:13 pm
no box showing .hit job then help then i get a directory of nonsense  but no blue box
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 05, 2022, 02:41:40 pm
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY
just before someone asks.
Ta Mac! 8)
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 05, 2022, 02:50:43 pm
HOW DO YOU REQUEST A SCRUB FEE .Step by step for the idiots please .
Click on the job

Click help

A box will appear

Type Please Apply Cancellation Fee - send.

You should receive a confirmation email that your request has been received.
Go to the bottom of the screen, the second icon  that looks like a credit card wallet - click

Scroll to  - trips completed.

Click on  - previous layout.

Click on the relevant job

Trip details appear at the top of the screen

Help is in the top right corner in green

Type  - please apply cancellation fee - in the box and send.

You'll receive an automatic confirmation email almost immediately.

Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: John m on June 05, 2022, 02:54:01 pm
dont have that option .i hit help i get a directory of crap that does not include scrub option
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 05, 2022, 02:55:22 pm
dont have that option .i hit help i get a directory of crap that does not include scrub option
Click on - previous layout.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: John m on June 05, 2022, 03:04:41 pm
dont have that option .i hit help i get a directory of crap that does not include scrub option
Click on - previous layout.

thanks tried that .I never put in for them but I was learning the Airport zone 19 today dont usually use it and paid for my ignorance 7.50 in parking fees .More snatching going on there that on Sean Mc Dermot Street in the 70s .
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 05, 2022, 05:12:45 pm
dont have that option .i hit help i get a directory of crap that does not include scrub option
Click on - previous layout.

thanks tried that .I never put in for them but I was learning the Airport zone 19 today dont usually use it and paid for my ignorance 7.50 in parking fees .More snatching going on there that on Sean Mc Dermot Street in the 70s .
Always apply for them. If you turn up at the address and things don't seem right, wait the four minutes and fifty seconds, call the punter, let it connect for one or two rings then hang up, then cancel the job. Apply for the fee.

You didn't pick up the possible bogey, and got a fiver for your trouble.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: watty on June 05, 2022, 05:55:10 pm

Always apply for them. If you turn up at the address and things don't seem right, wait the four minutes and fifty seconds, call the punter, let it connect for one or two rings then hang up, then cancel the job. Apply for the fee.

You didn't pick up the possible bogey, and got a fiver for your trouble.
I tried that.  Rang the guy after 5 mins.  He answered and when I asked if he ordered a taxi said no and cancelled while I was on the phone with him.  Fukker  >:(  Never got a scrub fee either. Fukkers  >:(  >:(

I can't get any scrub fees either as someone else was saying.  After I submit one, they send me a FAQ email about how to claim it.  I've copied the text to my phone and open it every time I try to claim another scrub fee.  No joy.  I'll tried the 'previous layout' approach suggested above.

They're shooting themselves in the foot for a fiver because they've lost any "loyalty" (?) I might have given them.  I've no interest now if FN succeeds or not.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Bob Shillin on June 05, 2022, 05:59:06 pm
My only successful way now. previous layout, tap job, tap help, enter "Cancellation Fee: No pax, called x 3, left VM, waited 5, scrub req.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Belker on June 06, 2022, 10:28:40 am
I THINK that after you move at all even to do a u-turn to exit after pressing 'Arrived' that nullifies the scrub fee.
I seldom bother any more as they seldom pay out and I never bother following up fer the sake of a Fiver.

Most usually I will wait a full minute and call them and if no answer still wait the full 2 minutes so as they will be hopefully charged the cancellation fee.

The odd cancellation fee that I do apply fer, I find they pay out about 1 in 2, and I only wait fer them if it is going exactly where I want to go.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: John m on June 06, 2022, 10:33:00 am
I made 3 applications for the Same Scrub Fee .Its my time I want to be paid .Cunts complaining they cannot get a taxi then cancelling .Its not just the 5 minutes waiting time but the effort to get there .
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Belker on June 06, 2022, 10:46:19 am
HOW DO YOU REQUEST A SCRUB FEE .Step by step for the idiots please .
Open home screen.
Tap the 3 lines in very bottom right of screen.
Then tap 'Earnings'.
Pull the screen up a tad to show 'View previous layout'.
Click on 'View previous layout'.
Scroll down to job in question.
Click on that job and it appears.
Click 'Help' (green button) in Top Right hand corner.
Input the words 'Cancellation fee' and press 'Send' on the Right side of the screen.
Then after getting the 'Message sent' on screen confirmation.
Click all the X's and back buttons to return to the home screen.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Belker on June 06, 2022, 11:13:17 am
I made 3 applications for the Same Scrub Fee .Its my time I want to be paid .Cunts complaining they cannot get a taxi then cancelling .Its not just the 5 minutes waiting time but the effort to get there .
Maybe best to go 'To War' tomorrow if you don't get paid ?

I had 1 Pony Bobo and 1 cast iron scrub last week, I'll wait till tomorrow to see if'n I'm paid.

Still bugging me that the puker last night cost me the second Pony Bobo !
I know that I made 10 times the Bobo in the hours with the Fookin pucker,
but OCD rocks, I was on 4 jobs needing just 2 more, 66% on way to Bobo
and I missed the Bobo over that prick !
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 06, 2022, 01:34:39 pm
The 5 minutes is way too long considering yer never parked in a safe place.Always blocking the road or up on the footpath or double yellows.If I'm in a shit location I cancel after 2 mins waiting then leave the app off for a few hours.5 minutes is just too long and it doesn't happen on Bolt or Uber. Freenow have allowed this situation to continue for years and now it's busy it's fukking up the service.

The more lads just keep accepting it the longer its gonna take to change.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 06, 2022, 02:39:55 pm
The 5 minutes is way too long considering yer never parked in a safe place.Always blocking the road or up on the footpath or double yellows.If I'm in a shit location I cancel after 2 mins waiting then leave the app off for a few hours.5 minutes is just too long and it doesn't happen on Bolt or Uber. Freenow have allowed this situation to continue for years and now it's busy it's fukking up the service.

The more lads just keep accepting it the longer its gonna take to change.
I'd the busiest night of the year last night.

I only did App jobs with desto's.

I never went into town.

Stayed local.

Worked the Unibrow gig, before and after.

If doing an app job I phoned the punter en route to be ready, they all were.

One banger in Clongriffin, scrub fee applied.

Made a wonderwall. 8)
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 06, 2022, 02:50:30 pm
Sounds like a plan SB.I took most of last week off after me holidays to recover so now I'm ready to return tomorrow when all the money is spent.Hopefuly the relatively busy time we(yous)are having will continue.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Belker on June 07, 2022, 09:23:20 am
....... 5 minutes is just too long and it doesn't happen on Bolt or Uber. Freenow have allowed .....
What happens that is different with Bolt or Uber jobs MFH ?
I don't work Bolt or Uber so it's an honest question.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 07, 2022, 09:50:54 am
The passengers are ready to go most of the time Ken.

Also within the other apps the passengers can text you to say they're on the way if they're not already waiting for you.Waiting times are usually very low.

That 5 minutes waiting bollox is a hangover from traditional despatch companies.Completely unnecessary considering most people with smartphones are looking at the things constantly.I work in town during the day and the clowns I'm picking up don't drive and don't appreciate how difficult it is to find a safe place to wait.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: Belker on June 07, 2022, 10:26:02 am
I made 3 applications for the Same Scrub Fee .Its my time I want to be paid .Cunts complaining they cannot get a taxi then cancelling .Its not just the 5 minutes waiting time but the effort to get there .
Maybe best to go 'To War' tomorrow if you don't get paid ?

I had 1 Pony Bobo and 1 cast iron scrub last week, I'll wait till tomorrow to see if'n I'm paid.
I just got me statement and was paid me Pony Bobo but not fer me Scrub fee, I only half remember the job but I do remember when applying fer it that it was a 'Cast iron' Scrub fee but still it was not paid.
I sent them off another message through the help section on that job asking why I didn't get paid the Scrub ?
I'll let ya know how I get on.
Title: Re: Free Now App' crash
Post by: silverbullet on June 07, 2022, 08:03:39 pm

Always apply for them. If you turn up at the address and things don't seem right, wait the four minutes and fifty seconds, call the punter, let it connect for one or two rings then hang up, then cancel the job. Apply for the fee.

You didn't pick up the possible bogey, and got a fiver for your trouble.
I tried that.  Rang the guy after 5 mins.  He answered and when I asked if he ordered a taxi said no and cancelled while I was on the phone with him.  Fukker  >:(  Never got a scrub fee either. Fukkers  >:(  >:(

I can't get any scrub fees either as someone else was saying.  After I submit one, they send me a FAQ email about how to claim it.  I've copied the text to my phone and open it every time I try to claim another scrub fee.  No joy.  I'll tried the 'previous layout' approach suggested above.

They're shooting themselves in the foot for a fiver because they've lost any "loyalty" (?) I might have given them.  I've no interest now if FN succeeds or not.
Only let it ring once or twice, and do not answer a return call.