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For what it's worth, here are the prices of my last few uber rides: $4 $4 $2 $2 $2.50 $1.75 $2 $2 $3.75 These prices are so low that it woul
by sillysaurus3 10y ago
For what it's worth, here are the prices of my last few uber rides:
$4
$4
$2
$2
$2.50
$1.75
$2
$2
$3.75
These prices are so low that it would be more expensive to take public transit, let alone a taxi. The trips were pretty far, too.
It's obvious that this can't last, but it's pretty great for the moment.
EDIT: A few clarifications: These were in Chicago, and I haven't omitted any rides from this sample. Those really are the last 9 UberPool rides.
The reason it's so cheap is because Uber keeps carpet bombing my phone with 50% and 75% off promo deals. I don't know why. The two types of deals are "Your next 5 rides are 50% off" and "All rides between 4pm and 7pm are 75% off."
- lifeformed 10y agoWhat city?
- blhack 10y agoI saw prices like this in Mumbai.
- noobermin 10y agoHere are my last few uber rides $18.94 $13.87 $ 7.68 $13.99 $11.22 $40.05 $12.71 Some were far, some not, obviously. They are spread over a few months, obviously, given the price of a typical uber, I am not prone to using it often. It does still beat a taxi, though. Just balancing out what seems to be a biased sample.
- microcolonel 10y agoI can tell you that downtown rides are about this cheap on Uber here in Toronto. Scale is a big factor as well, maybe you're in a place with fewer drivers, or posher folks?
- noobermin 10y agoCan you clarify? You mean cheap as sillysaurus3's prices or mine? We are a "smaller city", large population but a little sparse.
- akhilcacharya 10y agoI think I can beat you here. 14.60 15.52 17.23 0.00 49.52 36.62 The last two were from SFO to Palo Alto. In all honesty $50 for a 50 minute drive isn't that bad, but I didn't pay for it either.
- nedwin 10y agoI've had a couple of zeros or very cheap fares in last couple of days as well. What was this zero in your case?
- nommm-nommm 10y agoNot the GP but Uber has its Android Pay promo going right now, that was my last freebie.
- akhilcacharya 10y agoI gave a referral code to my parents and used up the bonus.
- wamatt 10y agoYou might want to check out Lyft. Been using their 'Line Ride' product as it's currently 50% off (at least in Bay Area). If their growth team wants to throw VC money our way to keep me on board, why not? Recently commuting from Palo Alto to Mountain View pretty regularly and paying around $7/$8. PS Not affiliated, just a happy user.
- HappyTypist 10y agoYou're part of an extremely limited test group aimed at calculating the price elasticity of Uber.
- spike021 10y agoPlus the $5 base fee, right? So that's not nearly cheaper than taking public transit. For example if I get an uber ride between my apartment and the train station, it's close to $2-3, but that's on top of the $5 base fee. So I could either pay $7-8, or I could pay $2 for the bus.
- sillysaurus3 10y agoJust double-checked the banking records. There's no base fee.
- johnloeber 10y agoNo, there's no $5 base fee for UberPool (at least not in Chicago).
- CaptSpify 10y agoWhere do you live that theres a base fee? I've never heard of that
- Nullabillity 10y agoIn Stockholm there's a 40kr (~$5) base fee for UberX: https://www.uber.com/cities/stockholm https://www.uber.com/cities/stockholm For UberBLACK that's 50kr (~$6), and UberLUX starts out at 100kr (~$12).
- flashman 10y ago> The reason it's so cheap is because Uber keeps carpet bombing my phone with 50% and 75% off promo deals. Does this affect how much the driver receives? E.g. do they receive a share of the full fee, or the discounted one?
- nudgeee 10y agoTheir payout is based on the full fare.
- vadym909 10y agoThey are just trying to get you hooked and habituated because once you get accustomed to it- they know you will be a life (or at least a very long term) customer.