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Is this in the Bay Area? In Austin Lyft is slightly more expensive than Uber, but no more than 10-15% at any given time.
by SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
Is this in the Bay Area? In Austin Lyft is slightly more expensive than Uber, but no more than 10-15% at any given time.
- dheera 9y agoYes I live in the Bay Area. Last time I took a $9 Uber ride, I checked Lyft and it was $21. This has happened enough times that I check Lyft prices increasingly less frequently.
- lqdc13 9y agoIn San Francisco Lyft is cheaper. SF center to SFO is like $15-35 for Lyft Line while Uber charges $19-45. SoMa to Marina is $4.05 for Lyft today and > $5.50 for Uber
- dheera 9y agoReally? I regularly get $30-40 from downtown SF to mid-peninsula. Sometimes even less. To SFO much less than that. http://static.dheera.net/share/20170915/uber.png http://static.dheera.net/share/20170915/uber.png
- Eridrus 9y agoBoth these companies have sophisticated price discrimination systems; two people catching the same ride at the same time will pay different prices, as I found out recently with a friend who gets much lower prices on Uber than I do.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoInteresting - I gander it's at least somewhat related to how often you use the platform. People who rarely ride probably get lower prices in an attempt to capture them as riders.
- Eridrus 9y agoMy hypothesis is that they try to figure out what prices to set to extract maximum profit, based on how much they think you're willing to pay, how busy the drivers are, how much profit they're currently making in that geographic area, etc. It's much easier to entice new riders by giving them coupons than it is to generally lower their fares.
- alttab 9y agoIncreasingly less frequently. I fully extremely appreciate how I like the redundentcy of the repetitive redundance.
- paulie_a 9y agoUber pricing varies quite a bit. I use uberpool frequently and have noticed a 40 percent change in price by changing my destination by a block or two. Which for the ride I am requesting is a very minor change.