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The value isn’t the cost saving compared to buying your own - it’s the convenience of being to pick one up anywhere and drop it off anywhere. If you think you
by Closi 4y ago
The value isn’t the cost saving compared to buying your own - it’s the convenience of being to pick one up anywhere and drop it off anywhere.
If you think you can carry an electric scooter with you around all day… good luck! I struggle to get one up a set of stairs.
That’s not to say that the price isn't wrong, but if the cost was equal between having my own scooter and having access to a rental pool, I would choose the flexibility of the rental pool every time. Having said that, I do think you have overstated the typical costs slightly too with a 15 minute ride costing c$3.
- tppiotrowski 4y agoI bought a Xiaomi model for $400 at Walmart, cut a QR code off an Amazon package and taped it over the power button. I left it out in the open next to the bird scooters in LA wherever I went and lasted about 6 months before somebody scooped it up. I assume the rest of the time people tried to scan the QR code and assumed the app wasn't working. :)
- jtwaleson 4y agoI am confused. It got stolen in the end? Did you try to avoid it getting stolen with the sticker?
- tppiotrowski 4y agoYes. It got stolen in the end but for 6 months I just left it unlocked on the sidewalks of LA under the guise that it was a Bird scooter. It might have actually been accidentally scooped up by a charging truck but I'll never know.
- jtwaleson 4y agoAre you happy with the outcome? I think there are better ways to avoid it getting stolen :D
- randmeerkat 4y ago> it’s the convenience of being to pick one up anywhere and drop it off anywhere Sure _if_ there’s a scooter nearby _and_ it’s charged… Then there’s the issue of needing a half dozen scooter apps all to use / find a scooter near you. The problem only becomes worse if there’s a group of people… These scooters are mostly just expensive trash laying around cities.
- Closi 4y ago> Sure _if_ there’s a scooter nearby _and_ it’s charged… Then there’s the issue of needing a half dozen scooter apps Sure, but these are all relative inconveniences and you have to compare them to the alternative inconvenience/cost of either other forms of transport for your short journey, or lugging a scooter around with you constantly.
- dragontamer 4y agoIf the nearby scooter is out of battery, you don't got a scooter at all. That's probably the ultimate inconvenience. You thought you had a ride, but you actually didn't.
- Closi 4y agoThe app tells you if it has battery - you go to the app and it shows you a map of all the nearest scooters with charge rather than wonder up to random scooters.