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fruition posted:Going to be so hilarious when these companies "disrupt" themselves all the way to bankruptcy. The founders may shed a tear or two while counting their millions before moving onto their next startup.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30478008 Uber put in their "surge" pricing for $200 taxi rides in Sydney while people were trying to flee the scene of an armed standoff with the police.
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pathetic little tramp posted:I can't think of anyplace else to post this, but there's another sort of economy of crowdsourcing company out there right now that yins can use to make some money: That fits here nicely, and is similar to Uber because it's illegal in most jurisdictions to use as intended.
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An Uber driver in Boston was accused of kidnapping and raping a female passenger. Who could have ever foreseen this?!
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Hingehead posted:I live in NYC, down on my luck, broke as hell college student in dire need of a good job with good pays. My best friend have been doing Uber for several months now and all I hear from him are praises about the pay, getting paid $1000 and just over it per week. He rents a car from his friend. So I decided I wanted in on Uber to which my friend explained everything to me, but I want second opinions about Uber from you guys. Especially because I am broke as it is and I would hate to waste money on getting TLC license when I could possibly opt for better alternatives, but I am told to get TLC because working in New York City has a far better advantages than sitting my rear end down waiting for a customer coming out of Newark Airport in NJ and having to pay tolls out of my pockets, wasting gas. Ever see the commercials on TV for reverse mortgages? Reverse mortgages pay out the equity as cash to the owner over time, which eventually ends when the owner dies or runs out of equity. Converting the value of a fixed asset into cash. Driving for Uber is like that, but for your car. You shred your car for some cash back. So "renting" a car from another friend sounds like a great deal, because the other friend is probably not renting it at anything close to a market rate. And then you drive a gypsy taxi without commercial car insurance, and your insurance is going to tell you to jump off a bridge when you get in an accident.
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Hingehead posted:The idea is that once my friend buys a car soon in a few month from now, I'd rent the car from him for $300, assuming I'd make $1000 a week, with a net loss of $300. I don't plan on doing this for the rest of my life, it is something I am thinking of doing just to give me a boost so I can head in the right financial direction again. My friend however wants to do this for the rest of his life as a permanent career. Your friend is hitching his wagon to the wrong company, one whose CEO went on record saying he's thrilled at the prospect of replacing all the Uber drivers with driverless cars
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Jan 18, 2015 08:19
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Blackjack2000 posted:To go from taking 20% of the fare to 100%? Or they could still have "drivers". They just don't drive, they own their cars, gas them up, and then unleash them onto the streets to earn uber fares. They take 50%, Uber takes 50%. And it pushes all the expensive maintenance and risk onto the "drivers", which sounds like the Uber way.
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Binge posted:I signed up with Lyft to be a driver in my city, and as I was getting to the "Meet your mentor" phase, my city shut the service down. That was August 1st, 2014. I spoke with the mentor person on the phone, and she said she was told it would only take 2 weeks for them to resolve it. It's now January, and not a single news article or mention of it ever coming back. Did you already have commercial vehicle insurance? If not, this is a good thing that has happened in your life.
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