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Title: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Punter on November 18, 2020, 04:20:41 pm

CHECK YOUR MAIL FOR TODAYS GREAT NEWS --

To enable us to continue to invest in the market, we are making some changes:



The commission rate for Pay with FREE NOW bookings will be changing to 15% - effective from 1st December 2020. For most drivers, these trips account for just 1 in every 250 trips.


Since 2017, FREE NOW has covered the cost of SumUp card processing, and we further committed to do this for 2020. From 01/01/21, drivers will need to pay for SumUp transactions - but the great news is that we have negotiated a preferential rate of 1.95% compared to the normal rate of 2.75%. Further details to follow in December.


We launched our new fuel deal with Applegreen in September. We are now delighted to announce that this offer has been extended until 31/01/2021, meaning drivers can save up to €40 a month on fuel - click here.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 18, 2020, 04:22:29 pm
posted already
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Punter on November 18, 2020, 04:42:30 pm
Didn't see it anywhere or I wouldn't have wasted my time ----anyway we are being screwed again --never ending crap they come out with-- 
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 18, 2020, 05:47:35 pm
And STILL you join them in your droves instead of going out and getting your own work. Theres no use giving out about them unless you are going to do something about them
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Taxi driver42 on November 18, 2020, 07:26:56 pm
If someone says can I pay with freenow

JUST SAY NO
I'm not with them I didn't get job of app
Cash or card or atm or garda station

Fuck frenow
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 18, 2020, 07:57:13 pm
Dear Mr Free
             I was out last Friday with a lady who had just been released from the Ladiess Nick on the North Circular .I didnt think she would drink 17 Gin and Tonics but she did and I spent all the Cash I was carrying .Luckily I have a Free Now Account linked to my personal cash rich bank account so on leaving the Porter Shop I saw one of your branded Vans parked half way up on the path outside and went over to the Driver and entered the taxi we exchanged pleasantries and I told him I needed to go to the flats and If I could pay with Free Now .He told me to fuck off why would he Pay 15% commission on this job which was a street hail .Can you please explain what he meant as I thought he was working for your company and driving your taxi as your name is all over it .

Regards .

Big Dommo
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Belker on November 18, 2020, 08:42:36 pm
FN are 'turning the screw' again right in the middle of a pandemic, how nice of them to the workforce they keep telling us are great !

I have posted honestly about my work since last mid April, but these last 6 weeks since lockdown 3 and 5 have been devastating. I'm easily down 50% of my weekly takings and then FN insult me with this !

The apple green offer sounds good but you have to call to their office WHICH IS CLOSED to collect the voucher/tag, and they point blank refuse to pay fer a stamp to post one out to you.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 18, 2020, 08:54:53 pm
Ken you and others didnt do Free Now any favours during Lockdown .You wanted or needed the work .Now after the Reps asking for drivers to be allowed to work to cover non existing work there are more taxies competing for less work .I can see why they introduced the 15% on Use Your Free Now account jobs as Im sure Drivers were Gaming the System Just enter a fare through a Free Now account in your own name or mates name or friends name as that would count as a Job twords gaining Priority .It was costing Free Now coin to process those jobs as they were not taking any commission .The Sum Up increase looks like a bit of profiteering but they were not offering free terminals unless there was an option for them to get  their investment back sooner or later .Remember Free Now are in Business to make money not hold drivers hands never lose sight of that .
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 18, 2020, 09:02:52 pm
Im assuming Free Now gave you the terminal for free or is there an Issue here .When you got the terminal through a Link from Free Now did you give them permission to interfere with your earnings .How can Free Now dictate the commission charged by Sum Up ?
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Shallowhal on November 18, 2020, 09:06:47 pm
And yet not one of youse fuks that continued to work during those heady days of the pandemic have thanked those who stayed at home like good citizens....youse ungrateful cunts!!
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Belker on November 18, 2020, 09:13:08 pm
Im assuming Free Now gave you the terminal for free or is there an Issue here .When you got the terminal through a Link from Free Now did you give them permission to interfere with your earnings .How can Free Now dictate the commission charged by Sum Up ?
I dunno !
But Yea I did get the terminal fer free.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 18, 2020, 09:22:27 pm
So if you arm wrestle Benjie Hogan for a ton or you bump into the Purple Princess and she says Ah for Fuck sake Ken I was looking for ya to pay ya but I just gave a Score and more to a lad down the road down on his luck sort of paying it forward .Any way Ken I heard you beat Benji in an arm wrestle well done and she says do you have Sum Up Kenny Ill pay you back by card .Now can Free Now take 2and a bit % commission out of than and then pay Sum Up whatever fee they have agreed and pocket the difference even though that transfer of coin is not taxi related ?
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Belker on November 18, 2020, 09:35:26 pm
I'm just reading the T&C's of the Apple green offer;

"In order to maintain the above discount rates for the following months (Nov - Jan), drivers must complete 150 jobs per month."

And also;

"The maximum amount of fuel allowed per week purchased using the Applegreen key tag is 80 litres, if a driver goes over 80 litres in a week their Applegreen tag will be deactivated."

That's a pretty fine line to be jumping through, you would want a notebook and pen to keep track of your job score and fuel used.
Either way the offer is only valid fer another 10 weeks so hardly worth the bother.

"The Offer is valid until the 31st January 2021."


They (FN) offer us 'Smoke in a Bottle' during the worst pandemic our generation has ever seen whilst 'turning the screw' at the same time.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 18, 2020, 09:50:29 pm
Ah A Bottle of Smoke now where did I hear that expression before when it came to Hailo.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Punter on November 18, 2020, 09:52:49 pm
There is no way any company turning the dough these are would agree to near 2%---just makes it easier for them to get to 20% on next increase in the Spring/Summer , more bullshit as ever, when will the industry stand up to this--have to hand it to our French collogues when they protest they PROTEST while our Irish collogues just put on extra decals advertising the Krauts--madness !
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Shallowhal on November 18, 2020, 09:56:03 pm
80 litres in a week is some serious driving....but maybe chasing those jobs...eh!! lol
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: stonethecrows on November 18, 2020, 09:56:21 pm
If someone says can I pay with freenow

JUST SAY NO
I'm not with them I didn't get job of app
Cash or card or atm or garda station

Fuck frenow
+1
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Belker on November 18, 2020, 10:08:13 pm
The re introduction of FN Sum up CC fees could lead to all sorts of problems.
Fer instance before when a street hail asked;"Do you take card ?"
You agreed knowing there was no charge, but from next year it will be; "NO".

Also if Joe was lucky enough to cop off with Pamela one night and do the business and Pamela booked a taxi on her account fer Joe to go home before her husband got back the next morning, and then Joe in my cab wishes through gallantry to pay fer his own taxi home and offers a card if I can switch payment method, then it will be Fook off, it's on Pamela's account.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 18, 2020, 11:17:56 pm
Protest me bollox,they ARE NOT your employers,so stop fukin acting like they are,and FFSgo out and get your own work
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: vandriver on November 19, 2020, 07:28:33 am
I've used Applegreen 3 times.Once I got a discount,the other 2 times...computer says no....so I'm back full time to Circle K
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Horse on November 19, 2020, 11:46:59 am
FN are 'turning the screw' again right in the middle of a pandemic, how nice of them to the workforce they keep telling us are great !

I have posted honestly about my work since last mid April, but these last 6 weeks since lockdown 3 and 5 have been devastating. I'm easily down 50% of my weekly takings and then FN insult me with this !

The apple green offer sounds good but you have to call to their office WHICH IS CLOSED to collect the voucher/tag, and they point blank refuse to pay fer a stamp to post one out to you.

They certainly are "turning the screw" ken. But you shouldn't be complaining.  Sure you and your ilk handed them the screwdriver.  Hell ye handed them a whole toolbox when you decided to deface your car with free advertising for them. Turning the screw is an understatement.  More like getting the chainsaw out and slicing through yours, mine and everyone else's earnings on their way to market domination. And ye know what ken, the ambassadors are the ones filling up that chainsaw with petrol to keep it chugging along at its increasingly destructive pace. When there's nothing left, drivers will be asking where did it all go wrong? It all went wrong the minute drivers decided to deface their cars with a foreign company's gick just so they could see jobs a few seconds before their colleagues.  Its a mind thing. And you my friend and your ilk fell for it hook, line and sinker. Only thing is you ended up ruining the industry for not just yourselves but for everyone.  Cheers for that  ::cheers
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Jack Meoff on November 19, 2020, 12:31:29 pm
Drivers won’t complain as much when the put up the commission to 20%.
Throw some Bobo their way and they be happy out.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Horse on November 19, 2020, 01:09:15 pm
And a couple of medals. They could bring out the platinum medal. I'm sure some of the licky lackys will cum in their jox at the prospect of being a platinum pleb.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 19, 2020, 01:22:56 pm
Ah here horsey,leave kenny alone
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Horse on November 19, 2020, 01:27:50 pm
I'm not directing that solely at ken. Thats for all the licky lackys who handed yours and my industry and livelihood away for a few receipt rolls and a cup of coffee.  Not forgetting the medals, the all important medals. Shame really.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Jack Meoff on November 19, 2020, 01:29:14 pm
In the good ol days of the Bobo texting each other who covered the 20 jobs first.
Happy days.
Ker ching
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 19, 2020, 02:03:16 pm
I'm not directing that solely at ken. Thats for all the licky lackys who handed yours and my industry and livelihood away for a few receipt rolls and a cup of coffee.  Not forgetting the medals, the all important medals. Shame really.
your right there horsey,the industry was handed to dispatchers on a plate,but particularly to FN.all because people dont have the balls to go out and get there own work
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Bob Shillin on November 19, 2020, 02:14:30 pm
I'm not directing that solely at ken. Thats for all the licky lackys who handed yours and my industry and livelihood away for a few receipt rolls and a cup of coffee.  Not forgetting the medals, the all important medals. Shame really.
your right there horsey,the industry was handed to dispatchers on a plate,but particularly to FN.all because people dont have the balls to go out and get there own work
Yet when you bring your enormous stones to work, you keep telling us that you don't get any,........work that is. While the rest of u who are working are getting by.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 19, 2020, 02:22:11 pm
Yes and the reason I dont get any is because everyone wanting a taxi is signed up to a fukkin dispatcher lacky.how the fukk could any independent driver operate in those circumstances
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Bob Shillin on November 19, 2020, 02:39:13 pm
"There are none so blind as those who WILL not see"
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Bob Shillin on November 19, 2020, 02:40:42 pm
Yes and the reason I dont get any is because everyone wanting a taxi is signed up to a fukkin dispatcher lacky.how the fukk could any independent driver operate in those circumstances
Jaysus wept, now you are arguing against yourself.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Jack Meoff on November 19, 2020, 02:45:40 pm
He’s due a big rant on dispatchers and FN
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 19, 2020, 02:46:47 pm
Im not arguing at all my good man,im merely stating a fact.the fact is,because everyone is signed up to the leeches,both drivers,and customers ,there is little or no chance for independent drivers like me to survive,but the difference between me and you is,I believe self employed means I work for myself,and NOT for a dispatcher
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 19, 2020, 02:48:47 pm
He’s due a big rant on dispatchers and FN
whats wrong with ya Jack,cant stand to hear the truth,or ya just dont like the fact that you haven't the balls to go out and get your own work
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Jack Meoff on November 19, 2020, 04:20:33 pm
He’s due a big rant on dispatchers and FN
whats wrong with ya Jack,cant stand to hear the truth,or ya just dont like the fact that you haven't the balls to go out and get your own work

Hence the reason I’m busy and you doing Fook all
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 19, 2020, 05:10:10 pm
Dollyer .You keep missing the point .THE PEOPLE WHO PAY YOUR WAGES we usually call them the passenger like the apps now if your business model is to ignore that market thats up to you but most drivers will use a combination of both app work and rank .As I said to you before Your King Canute stance will not work there simply is not enough street work out there .Just like you will struggle for Coin relying on 100% street work lads that depended 100% on Free Now will struggle .Robert and John have tried to tell you its about mixing and matching to get what you need out of the industry simple as .I remember the first pub me Big Dommo ,Nodger,Billy the Bastard Tommy Two Scars, him we dont mention and Betty Nugent from the flats went into for our first pints we must of been nearly 15 and we asked did they do food ?Straight away yer man threw Manhattan Peanuts or Pub Crisps on the bar and said what do you want ?We still meet up there once a year and enjoy a carvery and Dommo dosent have the Black Forest Gateaux because of his diabeties .Now old Paddy that owned the pub would not sell food he said it was a porter shop not a chipper but Paddy retired and little  Paddy as we still call him he is bigger than me and taller took over and put in the carvery because his garglers wanted it now the other porter shop that only sells porter on the street is closed because they couldnt get enough customers .Now there is a Trading Statement and a business plan in there if you decide to understand it .Anyway the Gents Jacks still smells of Cheesy Piss so some things never change .
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Rat Catcher on November 19, 2020, 05:19:24 pm
There seems to be huge demand for work from drivers. We're probably lucky Mr. Fox couldn't organise a rave in a south city centre council flats complex. Any businessman worth his salt would have doubled commission by now... at least once.
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Belker on November 19, 2020, 10:05:18 pm
In the good ol days of the Bobo texting each other who covered the 20 jobs first.
Happy days.
Ker ching
Jaysus ! The distant memory of it !
20 jobs between 5pm and 5am fer a Ton Bobo,
and most of us had it made by midnight !

"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days ..."
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: john m on November 19, 2020, 10:22:20 pm
Kenneth You ,Me ,Rodent and Korki swilling pints in Ziggys after I was finished serenading Mary at the bar I told ye .Hailo had a plan to take over split and divide and yourself and Korky thought I was talking through me Guinness .They owned you for a while covering Prime time jobs when there was full fare jobs available more than half of the jobs you covered were prime time in Dublin you had to beat them off between 1am and 5am friday and Saturday but lads chasing gold covered twenty jobs paying commission I covered the same amount full fare .If you deducted the Prime time jobs you covered from your total I bet I got the same or nearly the same amount of off peak jobs as you did .Its a Logoritm a computer code designed to get the job covered for 15% they dont give either of their fucks who does it the Accountant only sees the 15% not your profile picture .
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: silverbullet on November 20, 2020, 03:30:07 pm
Kenneth You ,Me ,Rodent and Korki swilling pints in Ziggys after I was finished serenading Mary at the bar I told ye .Hailo had a plan to take over split and divide and yourself and Korky thought I was talking through me Guinness .They owned you for a while covering Prime time jobs when there was full fare jobs available more than half of the jobs you covered were prime time in Dublin you had to beat them off between 1am and 5am friday and Saturday but lads chasing gold covered twenty jobs paying commission I covered the same amount full fare .If you deducted the Prime time jobs you covered from your total I bet I got the same or nearly the same amount of off peak jobs as you did .Its a Logoritm a computer code designed to get the job covered for 15% they dont give either of their fucks who does it the Accountant only sees the 15% not your profile picture .
Algorithm and Blues! 8)
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Shallowhal on November 20, 2020, 07:22:51 pm
Accountant only sees the 15% not your profile picture .


I'd deffo say they have your profile piccy up in Mount St HQ.....throwin fukin darts at it at lunchtime!!
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Rat Catcher on November 23, 2020, 09:11:39 pm
Them was the days, Ken...
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Cool Boola on November 23, 2020, 09:53:53 pm
Life is a circle.....sometimes...a very big circle....
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: dalymount on November 23, 2020, 10:22:05 pm
Kenny was the poster boy for FN once upon a time
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Belker on November 24, 2020, 01:56:17 am
Them was the days, Ken...
Indeed they were... Out the door fer 5pm on the dot with the Bobo drums beating in your head, get your 20 jobs done by midnight and add the Bobo to 'Ring the Bell', and then work the streets fer 'Johnny Cash' till they ran dry and go home with a 'Hairy fella' in de back phoca.
In today's Covid climate you would be lucky to do that in a week !
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Shallowhal on November 24, 2020, 10:51:39 am
You could probably make a fortune if ye brought a hairy fella home with ye Ken.....he'll give ye the bonus plan!!
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: Cool Boola on November 25, 2020, 03:25:32 am
Nelson Mandela is sitting at home watching TV and drinking a beer when he hears a knock at the door. When he opens it, he is confronted by a little Chinese man, clutching a clip board and yelling, 'You Sign! You sign!'

Behind him is an enormous truck full of car exhausts. Nelson is standing there in complete amazement, when the Chinese man starts to yell louder. 'You Sign! You sign!'

Nelson says to him, 'Look, you've obviously got the wrong man',and shuts the door in his face.

The next day he hears a knock at the door again. When he opens it,the little Chinese man is back with a huge truck of brake pads. He thrusts his clipboard under Nelson's nose, yelling, 'You sign! You sign!'

Mr Mandela is getting a bit hacked off by now, so he pushes the little Chinese man back, shouting: 'Look, go away! You've got the wrong man! I don't want them!' Then he slams the door in his face again.

The following day, Nelson is resting, and late in the afternoon, he hears a knock on the door again. On opening the door, there is the same little Chinese man thrusting a clipboard under his nose, shouting, 'You sign! You sign!'

Behind him are TWO very large trucks full of car parts. This time Nelson loses his temper completely, he picks up the little man by his shirt front and yells at him; 'Look, I don't want these! Do you understand? You must have the wrong name! Who do you want to give these to?' The little Chinese man looks at him very puzzled, consults his clipboard, and says:


>(Get your best Chinese accent ready .....)









'You not Nissan Main Dealer?'........FFs
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: markmiwurdz on November 25, 2020, 10:00:21 am
 lol
Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: stonethecrows on November 25, 2020, 09:05:36 pm
Nice One Coola.

Title: Re: Great News -- from "Nothing "Free Now
Post by: U Wha on November 26, 2020, 07:25:56 pm
lol
+1