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Colombia is a highly regulated market but the taxi drivers manage to modify their fare meters to charge you more (either they are accelerated or they have a swi
by TsomArp 10y ago
Colombia is a highly regulated market but the taxi drivers manage to modify their fare meters to charge you more (either they are accelerated or they have a switch that makes it accelerate), they lie to you about the costs (if you are not from here hey can tell you a trip that is 18 is 35, like they tried on me). In fact, it is estimated that 80% or more of the taxis here would try to rob you. I agree that Uber goes against regulations, and their new dynamic fare is a steal on its own right, but the service is much more better than cabs.
- samsonradu 10y agoSame happened to me after a long flight to Malaysia. Going from airport to KL, meter shows 90MYR and the guy asks for 150MYR adding up tolls, night tax etc. What should I do, fight the guy for 10EUR? Note it was a licensed cab booked from the Airport counter. Used Uber for the rest of my vacation there and it was great.
- princeb 10y agothe airport counter sells you a ticket, you give the ticket to the driver. no further payment is necessary.
- sitepodmatt 10y agoThere are two options. The pre-paid desk upstairs or the official taxi desk downstairs where it should run on meter (you pay 2myr for the privilege of using this desk for tiny bit of blue or red paper). Either way both should be regulated, safe and not a rip off. The taxi desk upstairs often with a single operator has long queues as tourists seem to asking for sightseeing advice, their horoscope, and then wanting to pay in cent coins (that's guess, it's annoying, KL is terrible airport, after almost as long as flight taxi-ing from runway to gate to queue another 40 minutes is not my thing)
- samsonradu 10y agoExactly, just took the 2 MYR ticket since I had no clue how much I should prepay.
- sitepodmatt 10y agoDitto, fast running meter and surcharges that should not have applied, a kick in the teeth after using official service desk and avoiding the touts. I complained to SPAD with took about 5 minutes, with receipt, taxi number, times, etc.. and 28 days later I got: -- I wish to refer to your complaint above. 2. The permit holder and driver of the vehicle were summoned to our office for an investigation regarding the complaint that your good self has lodged. 3. We wish to inform, the driver and the permit holder have been issued a warning letter and reprimanded not to repeat the offence again. If we receive another complaint about the same vehicle, a heavier penalty will be given to the permit holder and the driver. 4. We have also advised the owner of the vehicle to take the necessary disciplinary action on the driver regarding this complaint. Thank You. Yours Faithfully, SHAHRIDAN ABDUL AZIZ -- Could just be a template who knows...
- samsonradu 10y agoProbably wasted time on your behalf.
- legulere 10y agoRegulation also entails that regulations get enforced. In that case that means regularly checking the taximeters. Here in Germany taximeters get checked once per year. I never heard any complaints from anyone here about taxis trying to rob you off. If I search in German for manipulated taximeters I mostly find articles that are about foreign countries.
- robrenaud 10y agoI paid 90 euro for a taxi ride from the airport to downtown Munich. It should have been 50 euro. I am pretty sure that wouldn't have happened with Uber or Lyft.