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Except in my experience cabbies are like "yeah we take credit" and then afterwards "oh my credit card machine is broken, are you sure you don't have cash? I'll
by firebird84 10y ago
Except in my experience cabbies are like "yeah we take credit" and then afterwards "oh my credit card machine is broken, are you sure you don't have cash? I'll drive you to the ATM..."
Cabbies want to dodge that income tax.
- thedufer 10y agoThis probably varies by location, but in nyc cabs are required to have working credit card readers. Thus, insisting on credit card pretty much always works - the alternative is that they admit they illegally picked you up.
- tedmiston 10y agoIt's definitely less refined and consistent outside of NYC.
- emidln 10y agoAlso like this in Chicago.
- mcguire 10y agoSo what if it's illegal. They're disrupting the regulatory apparatus. Fight the power! Stick it to the man!
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- bdcravens 10y agoYeah - startup avoid taxi regulation=revolutionary disrupter, cab driver avoiding regulation=bad
- toxican 10y agoone benefits the consumer, the other fucks it over.
- TeMPOraL 10y agos/benefits the consumer/benefits the consumer in the short term, while fucking them over in the long term/
- mcguire 10y agoDoes it? Fuck them over, that is? The taxi driver is just trying to reduce his costs; he could allow riders to negotiate cheaper prices, benefiting everyone.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoWell, the taxi driver is reducing his costs by not paying taxes. That doesn't benefit the rest of the taxpayers...
- devishard 10y agoThe taxi driver is also reducing his cost by not paying credit card companies. Given credit card companies have legal means to pay less percentage tax on much more income than the cab driver and suck money out of taxpayers' pockets in many other ways, I'd offer that screwing over the credit card company might benefit the rest of taxpayers more than the cabbie paying tax does.
- thedufer 10y agoIf they tell you after giving you a ride that you have to go to an ATM and pay the ATM fee, then they are just passing the cost on to you at a net loss - ATM fees are higher than CC fees on purchases the size of a typical cab fare. I'm not convinced that it's better to funnel money to banks rather than CC companies.
- idiot900 10y agoIn over a decade of life in NYC, never had a problem with taxis incorrectly refusing cards. Happens 90%+ of the time in Philadelphia though, which is why I take Uber or similar whenever possible there.
- alistairSH 10y agoAt which point, you get out of the car. They're required to have readers. Tough shit if they break the law in an attempt to dodge paying their share of taxes.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 10y agoAnd then you tell them "well, thanks for the free ride" and you walk away. I've never had a cab driver balk when I use that and the machine immediately starts working again.
- mrestko 10y agoGot in a shouting match with a cabbie once in Chicago for this same thing and when I opened the door to get out after he insisted repeatedly his machine wasn't working, he threatened to kill me if I didn't pay. Then, when I threatened to call the cops, his machine immediately started working.
- webXL 10y agoYou mean you stuck around to find out it still worked? Man, I love Uber. Or at least the idea.