Free Now Priority

[Rat Catcher]

I never have Priority status on Free Now but I often get Priority Taxi job offers. Are they taking the piss making idiots work to earn priority status and then selling their priority jobs to any gobshite that'll do them or wha?

[Belker]

This may be confusing but Priority on FN has 2 different meanings.

Meaning 1; Priority status fer drivers can be aquired by doing a certain number of jobs at peak-hours or by doing an emergency pre-book job that is due in less than 30 minutes time. Driver Priority status lasts fer the remainder of that day and the next 24 hours, except on Fri or Sat when it last's fer the whole weekend till midnight Monday. The number of jobs required fer Priority and the peak-hour times change in different cities.
(PS. Priority non-ambassador beats Ambassador non-Priority).

Meaning 2; Priority status jobs which are offered to customers seemingly steps customer requests up the FN ladder and the job is 'sometimes' offered out to drivers and marked as Priority with a Bobo attached, the customer then gets an additional charge on their fare regardless of what if any Bobo the driver was offered.

[Belker]

It is defo a flawed system. I got a FN Priority job offer a few weeks ago with a Tenner Bobo attached which was my first time ever seeing a Tenner Bobo.

The details of it were that I was after taking a street hail going Northside (where I dislike to go) at about 5am and turned on the app (Account only) after dropping hoping to get something to bring me back to the slightly more civilized Southside. I had the app open fer a good five minutes before the Northside to Airport job popped up on my screen just 200 meters away with a Tenner Bobo attached, I would have jumped on it even if it had a Fookin Bed logo on it !
As it turned out it was a Pre-book in 8 minutes time and most likely the customers original driver had cancelled at the last minute, and being in Norrie-land at 5am with an Airport pre-book most likely I was the last chance saloon fer the customer ?

[Rat Catcher]

Surely Priority Taxis are intended for Taxis with Priority status. Do you get a cut of the surge fee if you have Priority / Gold / Ambassador / Whatever you're having yourself status? As a lowly pleb of no significant status they generally only offer €2 of the surge fee to the driver - you know where they can stick that! Maybe that's how our esteemed medal winners earn 30% more?

[Belker]

Surely Priority Taxis are intended for Taxis with Priority status. Do you get a cut of the surge fee if you have Priority / Gold / Ambassador / Whatever you're having yourself status? As a lowly pleb of no significant status they generally only offer €2 of the surge fee to the driver - you know where they can stick that! Maybe that's how our esteemed medal winners earn 30% more?

I'm not too sure if'n your having a rant or asking me a question ? I don't do much FN work anymore.

Back in Covid times I held FN Gold (60 Jobs per week) status fer about 48 weeks of each Covid year, but similar to Van Driver whom was also a loyal FN driver back then, they pissed both of us off to the extent that we both just about manage Bronze (20 Job) status these days with little or no loyalty to FN.

[Rat Catcher]

Bit of both, I guess. Sending priority offers to non-priority drivers with derisory shares of the surge fees only serve to waste the internet as far as I'm concerned.

[watty]

FN are in business to make money so they're quite happy to ignore their own rules when it suits them.  So they might start with a job at €10, then job at €10 with €2 bonus, then job at €10 with €4 bonus etc until someone takes it.  But at the end of the day, they're making money.  In fact, they're making so much money off us that they can afford to throw a few pennies back into the pot at the weekends with their €40-€60 bonuses...

[Jack Meoff]

I’m shocked to hear you’re no longer a fan of FN.
What did they do wrong ?
Are all your stickers gone also ?

Surely Priority Taxis are intended for Taxis with Priority status. Do you get a cut of the surge fee if you have Priority / Gold / Ambassador / Whatever you're having yourself status? As a lowly pleb of no significant status they generally only offer €2 of the surge fee to the driver - you know where they can stick that! Maybe that's how our esteemed medal winners earn 30% more?

I'm not too sure if'n your having a rant or asking me a question ? I don't do much FN work anymore.

Back in Covid times I held FN Gold (60 Jobs per week) status fer about 48 weeks of each Covid year, but similar to Van Driver whom was also a loyal FN driver back then, they pissed both of us off to the extent that we both just about manage Bronze (20 Job) status these days with little or no loyalty to FN.

[Horse]

Good question Jack. Well Ken, did you finally rip them stickers from yer car? Hope so.

[vandriver]

Last week(very good!) I was down to 10% on FreeNow.They just don't offer me work anymore.

[Octavia1]

Surely Priority Taxis are intended for Taxis with Priority status. Do you get a cut of the surge fee if you have Priority / Gold / Ambassador / Whatever you're having yourself status? As a lowly pleb of no significant status they generally only offer €2 of the surge fee to the driver - you know where they can stick that! Maybe that's how our esteemed medal winners earn 30% more?

I'm not too sure if'n your having a rant or asking me a question ? I don't do much FN work anymore.

Back in Covid times I held FN Gold (60 Jobs per week) status fer about 48 weeks of each Covid year, but similar to Van Driver whom was also a loyal FN driver back then, they pissed both of us off to the extent that we both just about manage Bronze (20 Job) status these days with little or no loyalty to FN.

Ken ..wat hav blokes bean warnin yu about for a number of yers now .... the customers and drivers are turning off freenow for a reason ... OK I get yu milked it for as long as it was ultra profitable for you with the decal incentives.... but it was never sustainable long term ... they are not nice people ... they never wer ...
There has been a marketable shift recently to the uber app ..for a reason ... but somehow an even bigger  i feel an even bigger shiver down me neck than I do with freenow ..... uber are even bigger bastards .... uber are COPORATE AMERICA...freenow COPORATE EUROPEAN... ther all fuking absolute CUNTS ... how do we deal wit CUNTS
we don't play ther  game ... we don't cooperate wit ther " incentives ... ie Priority systems and unfairness against other drivers .... that is essential and paramount...secondly we don't agree to advertise ... thirdly
We don't agree to " hospitality " charges ... fourtly ... in the absence of nta and government regulation of these bastards we promote competition amongst the cunts ... in other words we download all apps and promote by word of mouth to our customers which app they shud use that suits us at any given time ...
The most important of the above is  not agreeing  to any systems that facilitates  any driver to have advantage over
Another .... wen you agree to such ... you are the problem not the app and you have handed them your power , independence and sovereignty and your dignity

[Octavia1]

One more point Ken... yur post of yu and vandriver is insincere ... the fact of the matter is Van was never a freenow shiller ...but you are ropin him in on your distain for freenow ... why all of a sudden are yu given out about them ? ... because the customer in Cork has turned it off as they have in Dublin... yur panicking Ken because the fn tit is run dry ... ther are multifactorial reasons why the well is running dry .... they are too many to list here ... but if yu want me to go into them just ask ... tings cud get a hell of alot worse but all I'm saying is any of you who has a recent car loan...work yur bollix off to pay it off ASAP.... the possibility of a imminent major recession outcome is 50/ 50 at this time ... I'm quite optimistic it will be averted but we've had ample warning that I don't need to elaborate on here .yis are a smart bunch for the most part ... but i tink yu are startin to understand that freenow ain't no friend of yurs ... an the only reason yu realise it is ....yur feelin it in yur pocket today ...

[Belker]

Last week(very good!) I was down to 10% on FreeNow.They just don't offer me work anymore.

I'm still getting a decent bit off of it after the pub/club closing time rush but it tends to dry up very quickly at about 6am when the day drivers check in. DAF 7 changed everything fer me.

[mercenary for hire]

I think they've figured out how to starve drivers with low acceptance rates and high cancellation rates without blocking them then off the app completely.Barring someone off the app for 24 hours just encourages them to work Uber and Bolt more.Stupid idea.

Uber is still  giving out a lot of customer freebies so with many people watching their spending it doesn't take much for customers to make the switch.

[Jack Meoff]

The good ol days.