We are in the wrong game

[john m]

Hinge on the oven  broke .Rang a service engineer 60 yoyo call out 40 for the part and 60 yoyo per hour plus VAT for labour .Went on line part costs 22 yoyo drilled out the old part and remade it took about 15 minutes .Cost SFA .60 yoyo =to 30 taxi call out charges.

[Rat Catcher]

Uber should be allowed to use surge pricing for taxis here. Their unlicensed drivers in other jurisdictions are making a small fortune when demand is high and all they can do is drive a car... while we, as highly qualified tradesmen, work for peanuts regardless of demand.

[john m]

Your surge pricing is spurious .If we wanted to fuck a Kaedashian you could get a surgeon to add a a cunt or a tit  the demand to fuck a Kadd would die as they would be available to many users .Surge pricing would only lead to more drivers thinking they could get an earner and in the end we would have a Miwadi diluted industry which in time would lead to a free for all . There is no doubt I am billions of times more intelligent than you .You have undermined our industry at every turn with your support for anything  that upsets the Status Quo .PS .What time are you picking me up next week to go to Cork ?

[Belker]

I don't like Surge pricing, I think it is opportunistic and bordering on Sharp practise.
How hotels are allowed to Treble room prices at peak times beggars belief.

A bit late to be thinking of this now, but maybe if Tariff 3 was introduced fer Peak times,
(as already outlined by Mytaxi) then demand might fall slightly and supply would pick up a bit.

[john m]

Ken you had surge pricing .Mytaxi bonus was exactly than encouraging drivers to work certain shifts and paying a premium .The problem with surge pricing is it encouraged certain drivers probably that would not work nights to come out and compete with regular night time drivers for work .How many of those drivers will now change to nights and continue to compete against you now they have a taste for it .

 Then you have others going into App providers offices to advise them Free of charge on how to improve their app to make it easier for everybody to compete with you .In the past your local knowledge meant that you knew the location of the pick up and knew if you wanted the job or not but now at the suggestion of drivers the distance to the pick up is advertised on the app so now somebody who has no idea of the area can take that job using the locate on screen and drive to the drop off if it is inputted by the customer without a bulls notion of where he is and undermining all the local knowledge we have built up over the years.

 See Ken Surge pricing only encourages competition for drivers by encouraging more drivers to come out and when more drivers come out then the available work is diluted and the surge price dissapears .Surge pricing is there to encourage competition among drivers and guarantee that  the app companies can cover the existing work .Surge pricing does not encourage more passengers in fact it repels passengers and encourages them to look at alternative transport .

 So encouraging the app writers to improve their offering is not really to our benefit as it only undermines your personal skills and knowledge and opens up your plot to all.

[Belker]

Ken you had surge pricing .Mytaxi bonus was exactly than encouraging drivers to work certain shifts and paying a premium .

That is Not 'Surge-pricing' John M, that was a Taxi App company offering Bonuses to drivers and covering the cost themselves.

[john m]

Ken you had surge pricing .Mytaxi bonus was exactly than encouraging drivers to work certain shifts and paying a premium .

That is Not 'Surge-pricing' John M, that was a Taxi App company offering Bonuses to drivers and covering the cost themselves.

That was surge pricing Ken it had exactly the same effect you got more for covering the job only difference was Mytaxi paid not the customer .I wonder how many drivers who changed from days to nights encouraged by the extra few pennys will stick to nights now .

[Belker]

'Surge pricing' is where the customer is charged exorbitant rates at Peak times.
That was not the case with Mytaxi's Bobo offer, the customer did not pay 'Surge Prices' !

[Rat Catcher]

mytaxi's bonuses attempt to achieve the same objective as surge pricing i.e. to improve the efficiency of utilisation of the fleet. Of course, it's not as simple as that as individual drivers chasing bonuses are likely to utilise their vehicles less efficiently than they would in the absence of the same i.e. they will pass street fares to cover app fares. However, on balance, schemes of this nature probably serve to increase supply when demand dictates that increased supply is required as some drivers will adjust their working hours accordingly. Drivers who prefer to work off peak will, of course, benefit from reduced supply during their shifts. Hence it is a win-win-win-win scenario with more money being put in drivers' pockets, increased availability for passengers at peak times, reduced working hours for individual drivers and less folk screaming at Joe Duffy for more taxis/hackneys/limousines/local area taxis.

[watty]

Hinge on the oven  broke .Rang a service engineer 60 yoyo call out 40 for the part and 60 yoyo per hour plus VAT for labour .Went on line part costs 22 yoyo drilled out the old part and remade it took about 15 minutes .Cost SFA .60 yoyo =to 30 taxi call out charges.

Is there much of a living to be made out of fixing hinges on ovens?  Or do you reckon the service engineer does other stuff as well?

[Rat Catcher]

I reckon you'd need contracts with distributors to make a decent living from it. These days most folk fukk out broken appliances that are outside of the manufacturer's warranty. I worked for Dimpco about 1/4 of a century back. Their contracted service engineers done well out of it, some of 'em were contracted to other distributors too.