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I 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 t
by akhilcacharya 10y ago
I 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.
- nihonde 10y agoNot to mention that competition between Uber and Lyft will benefit all passengers.
- DrScump 10y agoWhen you have just two companies competing in a space, that's not true competition; that's a cartel.
- jacalata 10y ago"cartel (n): an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition." Having two competitors doesn't necessarily create a cartel. Are you trying to argue that Uber and Lyft are working together to maintain prices at a higher level?
- DrScump 10y agoI'm saying that only two participants in a space does not typically yield the benefits of true competition. The stronger may use competitive pricing in the short term to weaken the other, driving it to withdraw from the market or be acquired, but this hardly provides long-term benefits to the consumer like true competition would. For example, note the Office Depot / Officemax / Staples relationship. Though competitors, they never really did compete on price on everyday products (and in fact often charged the exact same price for common items -- a price much higher than, say, mail- and internet-order sources such as Amazon), hence the ability to advertise local price-matching without genuine risk to profit. The result? Three became two, and two are becoming one, resulting in no competition between them at all. The Uber / Sidecar / Lyft relationship is tracking very similarly. Can you name any retail space with only two players of significance that has not ended up having the same effect on consumers as a cartel? I honestly can't think of one. The Cellular One (now AT&T) / GTE Mobilnet (now Verizon) relationship is another example of this behavior. Prices of entry and of usage stayed high until additional, independent competing networks (e.g. T-Mobile, Sprint/WiMax) entered the space.
- akhilcacharya 10y agoI didn't want to be stuck with the tab at the end of my trip, so I just followed the company guidelines for reimbursement - they had an expense account for the other 2 rides I took from HQ to hotel.