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I would pay extra because I don't want the cognitive load of haggling on the cost. When I want/need A ride, it's because I'm either overloaded, away from home,
by Loughla 1mo ago
I would pay extra because I don't want the cognitive load of haggling on the cost. When I want/need A ride, it's because I'm either overloaded, away from home, or drunk. These are three times that I didn't want to bother with any more nonsense.
- samrus 1mo agoIts not that much. And you can just bypass it by accepting the first offer you get
- landl0rd 1mo agoIn a system where you are expected to haggle taking the opening price puts a pretty heavy tax on everything. It's more work to get to a vaguely similar equilibrium distributed slightly less evenly when you look at big markets for similar things.
- Sayrus 1mo agoIn a system where fees reach 50%, you are starting with a heavy tax no matter the starting price.
- bdangubic 1mo agohaggling when drunk is super fun
- mythrwy 1mo agobut haggling with drunks is not
- Waterluvian 1mo agoI’d sooner drink with hags.
- em-bee 1mo agoyour uber driver better not be drunk, so that's not a passenger problem, but only a driver problem
- sellmesoap 1mo agoAlso Hegel enjoyed a drink!
- librasteve 1mo agoand Aristotle
- DrProtic 1mo agoHowever, wouldn’t you want to be able to set a higher price is someone is obviously drunk (in a bad way).
- mr_00ff00 1mo agoHaving used it in Mexico, they usually have a suggested price that you can just pitch with, and usually people would accept that or add a tiny amount on it.