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Wow, 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).
by oefrha 7y ago
Wow, 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.