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chillrob,

I'm not sure what I did to upset you, but reporting every post I make in this thread from here on out probably isn't going to accomplish anything. I won't hold a grudge against you or anything but just saying you shouldn't really expect any actions to come of it.

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05-23-2016 , 03:42 PM

#1177

Larry Legend

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How much action on RBK would it take to make an iq competition happen?

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05-23-2016 , 03:47 PM

#1178

dkgojackets

DKGOAT

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 86,123

has an iq test 4 rollz ever actually happened on 2p2?

i remember some idiot in SE bet i would score less than 100 so when i took him up for any amount of money he said he didn't specify the test would be in english

scame!

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05-23-2016 , 04:09 PM

#1179

ZeckoRiver

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 5,590

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Originally Posted by jmakin

Their ads are flat out lies, you destroy your car, and you deal with ****ty people.

The company sucks a big one too. Don't do it unless you're really bored.

Yeah, guy who made 900 bucks net drove 50 hours a week but put on 30,000 miles on his car! I guess get a cheapish 4 door and try and trade in after 3 years.

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05-23-2016 , 04:42 PM

#1180

jmakin

banned

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or you can luckbox your warranty and get a brand new engine like i did

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05-23-2016 , 06:01 PM

#1181

ZeckoRiver

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Originally Posted by capone0

Uber is very up front with their pay structure. It's shocking that drivers are stupid enough to continue to drive for them despite them getting raked over the coals. I wonder what their turnover is? It must be insanely high since nobody is making any money or at least nobody is quickly realizing that after taxes, fees, and maintenance/depreciation to their car that the net value is very minimal from driving. It'll take a little while but drivers will catch on and prices will go up. They'll probably end up being somewhere near what taxi drivers are currently charging, maybe slightly less.

Thats the whole point of Uber, to undercut the regular taxis and provide cheaper service. Those cuts come from not having to tip etc. Don't you have to get a hack license operators license to drive for uber. Lets say you live an hour away from where they provide service, will they allow you to drive there or tell you they don't provide service in your area?

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05-24-2016 , 04:50 AM

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Alex Wice

aka Double Ice

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,951

I have been complaining about this for months. Uber surge is not a true market because there isn't enough supply, the surge only affects demand. There needs to be people on the road that may or may not work for uber depending on if it is surging. Uber hasn't really put enough mechanisms in that allow for these "swing drivers" to be signaled to turn on the app. Maybe that has changed recently I don't know, but as I understand if for example I want to be alerted to and only drive surges, as I understand that's really hard if not impossible to do.

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05-24-2016 , 06:06 AM

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El Diablo

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Alex,

Yeah, that's largely true. Uber doesn't want to make that easier because it would lead to spikier surges. They want the opposite - more predictable/consistent pricing for riders. They'd rather have fares staying between 1.4-1.6x for an hour with a relatively fixed supply than swinging between 1.0 and 2.0 for that period with a truly dynamic supply.

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05-24-2016 , 09:28 AM

#1184

jmakin

banned

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so why hasn't RBK answered how much action he needs for the IQ wager?

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05-24-2016 , 09:29 AM

#1185

Fabian

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j,

lol

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05-24-2016 , 10:16 AM

#1186

Alex Wice

aka Double Ice

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,951

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Originally Posted by El Diablo

Are you speculating that this is the reason or do you have some type of inside knowledge that says this is the case? As I understand making it easier would just create less pressure on surges, so that basically the surge price would be more often lower.

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05-24-2016 , 12:25 PM

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El Diablo

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Alex,

Combination of talking to friends who work there and reading stuff that has been published. In a nutshell, doing what you said would give drivers more control over what pricing is at any given time. That's not something they want.

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05-24-2016 , 02:07 PM

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Howard Treesong

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El D,

Collectively yes but individually no. Drivers can't influence pricing in a coherent way unless they collude, which strikes me as both unlikely and unsustainable.

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05-24-2016 , 02:45 PM

#1189

El Diablo

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HT,

Whether individually or collectively, the more transparent pricing is to drivers, the more ability they have to influence it.

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05-24-2016 , 10:34 PM

#1190

Alex Wice

aka Double Ice

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,951

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Originally Posted by El Diablo

This is very surprising to me. I still don't agree (in the sense that I don't think its correct for Uber to have that policy), but I defer to them, they have smart people working on it obviously, so I guess there's just something I'm not seeing.

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05-25-2016 , 11:15 AM

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JayTeeMe

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Buddy has been uber driving in Vancouver, Washington. Called me yesterday to tell me he drove a couple of hot young girls home and got a tip of $5, a titty flash, and a half ounce of weed.

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05-25-2016 , 01:41 PM

#1192

pvn

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damn, I'm signing up

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05-26-2016 , 12:54 AM

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EddyB66

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3.9 surge rates tonight. Highest I've ever seen. Especially on a random Wednesday

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05-26-2016 , 02:02 AM

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riverboatking

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Buddy has been uber driving in Vancouver, Washington. Called me yesterday to tell me he drove a couple of hot young girls home and got a tip of $5, a titty flash, and a half ounce of weed.

did he feel a surge in his jeans?

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05-26-2016 , 06:06 AM

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capone0

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Originally Posted by EddyB66

3.9 surge rates tonight. Highest I've ever seen. Especially on a random Wednesday

If you want to see a crazy number look at 12:15 am right after New Years. Pretty sure when Uber just got to Philly my friend was at a Casino in Philadelphia, Sugar House and she had to take a cab 1.5 miles in snow/poor weather. It was 115 bucks. Normal fare is probably 6-8. She was in heels and I guess had no other choice at the time.....I would have just stayed at the casino for a few more hours to the rates dropped.

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05-26-2016 , 09:46 PM

#1196

BigPoppa

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Just rode with a Lyft driver who insisted he made $2k/week with his Honda Pilot (he gets both Lyft & Lyft+ calls). I have no idea why he felt the need to bull**** me, but I'm definitely calling bull****. NFW he makes that much at either $.90/mile (Lyft) or $1.65/mile (Lyft+) even working 50 hours/week. And especially NFW he nets anything close to that after gas + depreciation on his brand new vehicle.

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05-26-2016 , 09:53 PM

#1197

EddyB66

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Could be done, but working more around 70-80 hours a week.

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06-22-2016 , 10:29 PM

#1198

El Diablo

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All,

Some of you might find this interesting: https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodo...er-pay-numbers

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06-22-2016 , 10:33 PM

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JayTeeMe

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Internal Uber calculations, provided to BuzzFeed News by Uber, based on data spanning more than a million rides and covering thousands of drivers in three major U.S. markets — Denver, Detroit, and Houston — suggest that drivers in each of the three markets overall earned less than an average of $13.25 an hour after expenses.

Doesn't seem that bad imo