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Same here. Most of the taxi drivers in the city where I live only take cash, and every time I have ridden with one, they have cheated and taken a detour. Uber,
by ourlordcaffeine 7y ago
Same here. Most of the taxi drivers in the city where I live only take cash, and every time I have ridden with one, they have cheated and taken a detour.
Uber, automatic payment by card and no cheating on the route.
- oefrha 7y agoWow, care to share where you live? I’ve hardly ever heard stories of taxi drivers cheating locals (needless to say tourists are cheated all the time).
- stale2002 7y agoWhat? There are quite a few people in the very thread, talking about their bad experiences with Taxis. It is a common thing, to hear stori es that people have of bad experiences with Taxis.
- oefrha 7y ago> It is a common thing, to hear stories that people have of bad experiences with Taxis. Stories of bad experiences with taxis != stories of taxi drivers cheating locals.
- stale2002 7y agoStories of overcharging people are also common. It is common to hear people talk about a "broken" credit card machine, or about a taxi "taking the long way", or the like.
- briandear 7y agoMost people being cheated don’t know it. Taking a little extra detour “because on construction,” or taking a drunk person home the long route — people being cheated generally don’t know it.
- larnmar 7y agoTaxi drivers swindle everyone, they just have a wider array of tricks for swindling tourists.
- ourlordcaffeine 7y agoA UK city that isn't London.
- la6470 7y agoAll over India it’s a nightmare to get a taxi
- thathndude 7y agoThis was common in Chicago when I lived there from 2011-2013. "I'd like to pay with credit card" "Machine is broken." "It's all I have." "Fine."
- mytailorisrich 7y agoHere in the UK, if you say it's all you have they just reply "I can stop by an ATM"...
- oefrha 7y agoThat’s cheating their company (and/or setting up for tax evasion), which in my experience is far more common than cheating the customer with a detour, at least when the customer is local (you can show your localness through verbal cues implying or simply indicating you know the route).
- spsrich2 7y agoOnly the other night a Chicago cabbie tried to get my wife to pay with a portable credit card reader not the one installed in the machine. She made a big fuss and he 'discovered' that the built in machine was working after all.