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> Uber is behaving extremely anti-competitive, as far as directly calling Lyft rides and then cancelling as soon as the car arrives during important days (like
by morgante 11y ago
> Uber is behaving extremely anti-competitive, as far as directly calling Lyft rides and then cancelling as soon as the car arrives during important days (like Christmas) hundreds of times.
I heard about the recruitment tactics, but I've never heard about holiday cancellations.
Do you have any evidence of this?
- kuschku 11y agohttp://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/ http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re... And there are many more sources, this is just the first one can find on Google.
- morgante 11y agoI've seen that before, but it's what I was referring to as "recruitment tactics." It seems pretty clear that the primary thing these people were trying to was to recruit drivers (and canceling drivers they'd already spoken to), not systematically disrupting Lyft service. For one thing, the scale is just too minuscule to matter. In a market where Uber is doing a million rides per day, 5,000 rides over months is nothing.[1] That being said, disrupting availability on sensitive days (ex. holidays) could make a lot more sense in terms of sabotaging a competitor, which is why I was keen to see evidence of that. Unfortunately the link you provided has no evidence of holiday cancellations. [1] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/uber-statistics/ http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/uber-statistics/