Driver scarcity.
If there are so few drivers on the road that you have to transmit others 15-20 minutes to pick riders up, then the rates need to be surging. Hands down. Especially in inclement weather.
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The amount of 20+ minute away rides I get sent is astounding. And you want to send me "education" about how to keep my acceptance rate up? Give me a break. I don't work for free, and that's what I'd be doing after expenses with most of the garbage they keep sending.
one of the worst things uber has done is uber x priority. by making riders pay more for drivers close to them, they are destroying the earth and causing us to burn more fuel and blow our engines up. uber is truly a disgusting company. so much for being a "green" comp...
I’ve declined the same offer 3x in a row before. Was like $5 for 20 min driving f that. They wanna keep low balling drivers and keep all the profits than they won’t have many hanging around that speak English
It's not about driver, rider, or market efficiency. Its not about "supply and demand" It's about Uber's profit. That's it, plain and simple. Similarly, upfront offers wasn't about giving drivers more information to make better decisions. It was about Uber being able to no ...
Oh how I miss the rate card....
Interesting that you mentioned that. While I was driving today, I got the same offer 3 times. Each time the person canceled. Not sure the reason why. Very weird to me. I have excellent rating. But made me think, am I the only driver around this area? I thought this area was sa...
Yes. It's like they are making sure your stats are terrible. If you decline that ride, they will say your acceptance rate is low. Stop re-sending the same ride that I already didn't want to do!
Uber and Lyft don't care as much about rider wait times as they do about profits. There's a minimum they're going to pay us, and not a penny more.
Not if you're stubborn
You know when you keep getting rides to pickup people 20 minutes away that means practically every driver who was closer turned it down? So the algorithm just pushes it out farther sometimes slightly higher in pay until someone bites And some idiot always bites eventually Ye...
Exactly this. Lately I am getting more riders in the car that had to wait a significant time to get linked to a driver. Last weekend even someone in the center of Oakland - so a busy market, not somewhere in the boonies - that waited 30 minutes! The system is set up such tha...
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They just made the passengers wait longer now uber is stretched to its limit right now very easy for a competitor to step in and take them out
Yeah, it certainly used to work that way. So w no drivers out, what kind of offers are you seeing?
Seems like the rates for these long pickups average about $15-$17/hr if you account for the total time.
Yeah, I don’t know where they all went, but I’m grateful.
Yeah I don't do double digit miles away pickups...but they send them to me all the time.
Same, they tend to cancel too when you're about half-way. Waisting your time for just a couple bucks. Not taking that risk.
8 minutes is the longest I'll drive to get someone unless the rate makes it make sense.
If they decide offers similar to Lyft, they make it an average wait time for each passenger so that on average Rider A B and C aren't going to get different wait times. Since the fares don't normally account for pick up distance that just so happens to make it easier to put pr...
For some reason I think they are just trying me when they send rides that are 15 minutes away. I try to only accept rides with a pickup under 10 minutes. I would need to see a bonus offer added to the fare
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Decline until you get a surge-priced offer. Simple. Make your own surge or go offline, keep the app open, and wait until they give you one to entice you to go back online. And use the wait time to be looking for a real job
The problem is you can’t concentrate on any thing else and also this.
They do surge, without showing surge. Just wait for the 12+ min rides. I sit and wait, and normally you will get $1.50+ per mile. But make sure their time calculation is right. Know your city. Highway are optimal for these trips. I’ll take them all day long. For instance. ...
18 mins to a rider and 12 mins with them for $8 is not surge pricing.
I don’t understand when people say uber only cares about money, what that has to do with them sending you 20 minutes out of the way? I don’t think anyone benefits from this Uber, the rider, nor driver
Uber is the only one that benefits financially. Now ingrained in our culture of on demand everything, riders won't abandon rideshare even if wait times are consistently increasing as well as fares. Even as it becomes continually less reliable and quality of drivers and the...