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This is not price negotiation really at all because uber can and does kick people off the platform for not accepting rides. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-

This is not price negotiation really at all because uber can and does kick people off the platform for not accepting rides. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-uber-drivers-get-deactivated-2017-7#5-speaking-out-publicly-against-uber-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-uber-drivers-get-deactiv...

AnthonyMouse 7y ago
That says they get kicked off for canceling too many rides. Accepting a ride and then canceling it is different than not accepting it to begin with.
- nickbauman 7y ago
  the bottom line is Uber can kick you off the platform for any reason or no reason. If it walks like a duck...
- caymanjim 7y ago
  They can also get kicked off for not accepting enough rides. When you're online and available you can't ignore what comes along.
  - AnthonyMouse 7y ago
    Do you have any evidence for that? Kicking people off for accepting rides and then canceling them makes perfect sense because once you accept the ride, the customer is waiting and they're not looking for another driver. It also discourages drivers from looking at the destination and then refusing rides that legally they're not supposed to, like trips into black neighborhoods. Accepting in the first place either happens or doesn't in only a few seconds, and if you don't they immediately go on to the next driver. At best they have the incentive to make you manually re-enable your availability to drive if you neither accept nor decline more than a couple of rides in a row, so they can stop routing rides to you if you're not actually there. In makes no sense to kick you off over it, so why would they do that?
    - caymanjim 7y ago
      Only anecdotal. I have an Uber driver friend, and other drivers have told me the same. I live in a very suburban area that's basically shut down for the winter season. There is often only one driver even active within 10 miles. It's not a problem in a city.
    - hunter2_ 7y ago
      Because the added delay for customers is bad UX, and so is the increased price customers face when there are fewer drivers willing to accept rides.
  - pishpash 7y ago
    Getting switched offline after too much inactivity, from which you need to actively affirm intent to work by going online again, is not the same as getting kicked off the platform.

AnthonyMouse 7y ago

That says they get kicked off for canceling too many rides. Accepting a ride and then canceling it is different than not accepting it to begin with.

nickbauman 7y ago
the bottom line is Uber can kick you off the platform for any reason or no reason. If it walks like a duck...
caymanjim 7y ago
They can also get kicked off for not accepting enough rides. When you're online and available you can't ignore what comes along.
- AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  Do you have any evidence for that? Kicking people off for accepting rides and then canceling them makes perfect sense because once you accept the ride, the customer is waiting and they're not looking for another driver. It also discourages drivers from looking at the destination and then refusing rides that legally they're not supposed to, like trips into black neighborhoods. Accepting in the first place either happens or doesn't in only a few seconds, and if you don't they immediately go on to the next driver. At best they have the incentive to make you manually re-enable your availability to drive if you neither accept nor decline more than a couple of rides in a row, so they can stop routing rides to you if you're not actually there. In makes no sense to kick you off over it, so why would they do that?
  - caymanjim 7y ago
    Only anecdotal. I have an Uber driver friend, and other drivers have told me the same. I live in a very suburban area that's basically shut down for the winter season. There is often only one driver even active within 10 miles. It's not a problem in a city.
  - hunter2_ 7y ago
    Because the added delay for customers is bad UX, and so is the increased price customers face when there are fewer drivers willing to accept rides.
- pishpash 7y ago
  Getting switched offline after too much inactivity, from which you need to actively affirm intent to work by going online again, is not the same as getting kicked off the platform.