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A $640 Uber ride is one expensive financial lesson
- sbierwagen 11y agoBlogspam. Source is https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/i-nearly-passed-out-a-640-uber-ride-for-a-30-mile-trip-to-the-airport/2016/01/26/c45024ac-c469-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/i-n...
- zerooneinfinity 11y agoI really hate this dynamic pricing model. ya ya, supply and demand.
- PinguTS 11y agoThat is the difference between Uber's business model and the taxi business model. The first one is always (or at least mostly) recommened as superior and the second as antique and over-regulated. But excatly, those are the reasons why the taxi business is so over regulated. It is, that customers can rely on their past experiences and learnings. That customers does not need the have the latest information.
- Shorel 11y agoI always reject Uber price surges, out of principle.
- logfromblammo 11y agoSo she was able to get from her home on an unplowed street--immediately after a 3 day blizzard--to the airport that got 18" of snow without having to dig her car out from under two feet of snow and go out driving in it. It only took one hour and cost $640. Wow! What a deal! I'm not sure if she called any traditional cab companies to try to get a ride to the airport, but I can tell you their response. "We can't get any cars out to you, ma'am, due to the blizzard." Without someone waving that fat stack of cash around at the curb, the Uber driver would have taken a snow day and stayed in bed, too.