Uber should stop offering the trip to the same driver that once declined.

Is this affect to AR rate?

That’s nasty…

I wouldn't say they "send" you the call. Uber offers the advanced reservation as a notification. You just ignore it or you open it and hit decline and tick the box to not receive the offer in the future. Done.

I just love it when you hit the match button 3 or 5 times and you do not get the ride and all the sudden it's an exclusive offer.

It means you are the only driver available. lol

They'd rather make 0 than pay more.

I was sitting at the airport today and realized 2 things…

1. Surges are higher at the pickup point than at the waiting lot. Why? Because the rider will pay a higher surge price, but the driver will receive a lower surge payout. Uber pockets the difference. Out of curiosity, I cruised by the pickup area and picked up the extra surge price. Didn’t get a request for 20 minutes and when I did the base fare was ridiculously low.

2. Again while sitting at the waiting area… I was holding a $10 surge. Surge went away and a driver pulls in next to me (so no surge for him). Match comes in for an airport pickup. I immediately click Match. 2 seconds later I wasn’t matched but the driver with no surge pulls out. Why? Even though I was ahead of him in the queue, he got the ride because he wasn’t holding a surge. So Uber didn’t have to pay him the surge, therefore they gave him the ride.

Uber is playing effing games. They have mastered the art of manipulation to maximize their profits and screw the drivers (and passengers). They’re downright evil with their bs. So I don’t care one bit about my acceptance rate or helping uber with their algorithm. I’ll take the rides I like and they can pound sand with the others.

My favorite is when they send an open trip out for anyone to grab on trip radar. I will refuse 99% of all offers because they’re a joke but then uber will send me the exact same ride as an “exclusive offer”, much of the time for a little less money. So they know I have no interest in the trip that’s why I refused and then send it as an exclusive simply so they can manipulate your acceptance rate. I see this dozens of times every day and it should be criminal.

Yeah but you got to take some rides. Never understand a 0% acceptance rating. Do you want to work? Just sit at home declining rides?

There is an interview online of the Uber CEO saying that exact same thing when they first introduced Upfront Fares. He stated that if the driver fares were too low, then drivers wouldn’t accept the trips and then the algorithm would increase the trip fares based on unfilled demand.

Lyft is doing the same thing. It’s total bullshit. I was platinum tier for years. All I had to to was give 1500-1600 dollars worth of peak hour rides and I was platinum for over two years straight. Now with this new acceptance rate criteria it’s impossible to stay platinum. Not just because of low paying but rides to and from dangerous areas as well.

I thank that it is implemented just there are to many drivers that take the low ball offers.

Only because there are still many drivers out there who don’t realize they’re getting screwed and care more about their acceptance rate than money.

It IS actually. I wish people would understand that taking garbage, playing into their games are bad for everyone. If the trash trk stopped TOMORROW… the system would turn every call into $25! I don’t know the exact numbers/workings of it. DD used to put a dollar or two on it every time someone would decline it. Sooo if they wanna drop rates… let THEM foot the bill!

Uber Eats, Door Dash, Grub Hub, are so expensive and so often SHAFTING their Customers and SHAFTING their Drivers, ,

You need to have your phone with you whenever you place order for shop & pay. The driver may have informed you while shopping that your requested item is not available and needed your approval for replacement. If this approval is not received by the time the driver is done with shopping, then the item is permanently removed. It is your responsibility to keep your phone with you for changes during your shopping.

The one time i got in a long spat with support the moment i mentioned the word “lawyer” they gave me a refund

Contact your bank account and credit card to: Contest the Charges, on grounds of "items NOT delivered/received"

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I’d love an Uber through Eden. My bf helps me and I did it once myself but it stresses me out so much haha

Wdym uber in this case?

Lol, that cool though, good luck, I took my brother through Eden the other day. :)

I'm why did I made this sound like an ad, but if you need any help in-game, come ask me!

(I made it sound like an ad AGAIN lol)

Never, never, never give the pin until you are face to face with the driver.

FYI ordering from Ubereats has become extremely risky, due to drivers stealing orders. Also since you gave the driver the pin before you had possession of the order both Costco and Ubereats will blame you for trying to steal from them. Quit using Ubereats and never give a pin out until you have the order.

Why would you give out the pin number over the phone???? Why????

Why did you give them the pin if they weren’t there??

Pay more attention next time. This type of post happens every day ... "I used an old address, it wasn't delivered, and now they won't refund me." That's literally the one thing they won't do ... Last time that happened to me the support agent told me to dispose or eat the food (real address was 1 hour away).

Also ... like everyone else said ... give them the PIN when you're physically with them ... you didn't pay attention and then broke the one rule uber put in place to prevent this exact thing from happening.

They do pay GST, and drivers pay tax in their earnings.

I guess there are a lot of multinationals avoiding corporate tax in NZ and elsewhere 

We all pay GST mate, so maybe we shouldn't pay tax either. Boy, love this sub. /s. We need a wider tax base to keep a functioning country the way we'd all prefer. So yes, tax all these multinationals...does Netflix pay tax for example...

That's revenue, not profit. They paid ~1m tax on ~3.5m profit.

Profit is revenue minus expenses. Break down their expenses by line item and the majority will be reasonable, but there will be licensing fees that their overseas parent companies charge them for operating in NZ that offsets the tax burden from NZ to another country.

Unsurprisingly, solving international tax burdens is complicated for a number of logistical, diplomatic and accounting reasons. The Digital Services Tax resulted in retaliatory threats from the US if implemented, and that was pre-Trump!

Ultimately I think we need to pull the trigger on something like a DST at some point, but it should be timed alongside inviting European and Chinese competitors into the country.

Perhaps if we went directly to the food outlet and bought the food rather than voting for convenience because we are too lazy to get off our obese arses, the local business will benefit with higher returns, the tax will be paid, and the money will stay in NZ.

It was to me.

Its hard to get income tax out of multinationals. More serious countries than ours struggle with this. We can still benefit from having companies here even when they do not pay company tax. They still employ people and provide goods/services.

Our Government has the option to rule that Uber drivers must be treated as employees not contractors.

That’s just more gas and miles on your vehicle. If I can make $100-$150 on a single trip why would I worry about doing 35 more trips? It’s Not about how many, it’s about how much!

I focus on quality over quantity. My market is spread out enough that even if I wanted to rack up some numbers it wouldn't be much more than I do now and it would mean even less earned after expenses.

Most i have done is just on uber i hit 40

Damn only $260 for 36 rides is crazy work. I did 15 once only because I was trying to finish a challenge which was like $300 or something for 4 hours of driving.

Oh my God, you almost did like sometimes more than a week of my Ride in a one day

How are you able to go online for 14 hours in 1 day?

Rip I made 213 with less rideable 14

That's a lot of rides

Happens all the time to me in Los Angeles.

The ride offer is sent to the nearest driver and you can’t really throw a cat in LA without hitting an uber.

I’ve dropped someone off then got a request from the house next door to them as I was pulling out and I basically just did a circle in the street.

Got a good laugh out of everyone cuz they waved at each other and then it hit them what happened lol.

Once I was exiting an Uber on the driver’s side as someone entered on the passenger side. Another time someone was trying to get in as I was trying to get out (this happened in front of my building).

Probably had just dropped someone off where you were at or was driving by accepted immediately

As long as your driver didn't tickle you