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The only time I've used MyTaxi the driver drove us in a blatantly longer route to get more money out of us. I trust Uber much more. It's a common pattern, a lo

The only time I've used MyTaxi the driver drove us in a blatantly longer route to get more money out of us. I trust Uber much more. It's a common pattern, a lot of things are backward and lagging behind the times in Germany, and so many Germans are convinced it's better that way, but they still change, just 10 or more years later. I'll update my opinion when international debit and credit cards are universally accepted rather than needing bank cards.

pgeorgi 7y ago
> I'll update my opinion when international debit and credit cards are universally accepted rather than needing bank cards. That's coming now that credit cards aren't fleecing merchants anymore: they just weren't competitive against bank cards (or, gasp!, cash) until ~10 years ago with their ~3% fees. That dropped to ~1.5% 5 years ago due to EU regulations and is now limited to 0.3%, which is, surprise surprise, the fee we had for bank cards. So it's not due to "backwards Germans", or due to the "free market", it's due to regulations that credit cards are now making inroads, because their operators were forced to make a competitive offer.