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I haven't liked that Lyft hasn't been showing the distance/ETA on ride requests for a few weeks now, but (knock on wood) they haven't managed to dupe me into ridiculously long pax pickups.
When I was bored earlier last week I quizzed Lyft on why they had taken away the ETA from their pings. Their response was, obviously, ridiculous.

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Among most drivers I meet in person, and the countless number I've observed in online forums," writes Rosenblatt,
Where is my $$$ Royalties. ? :mad::D:p
 

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She has the same type of neck as actress Sandra Bullock. In fact this girl kind of resembles a young Sandra B.
I like Sandra Bullock.

Media uses ethnologist like this to deposed corporate leaders they don't like just like they do governments.

corporate raiders get all the press they need to create corporate insurrection. then they genocide the masses and sell their children's organs
You are just SO CHEERFUL TODAY !

( i think Corporate Raiders quit eating human hearts as general practice around the time of Atilla the Hun)

You guys are incredible. Look closely...
it's emdeplam

I hate Lyft more because they annoy the shit out of me with stuff like their "you missed a ping" bullshit. Yes, yes I did miss that ping... AND I DID IT ON PURPOSE! Hahahaha! Screw them. (From a Lyft 4.99 driver)
FINALLY AN ANSWER !

So is that your FINAL Answer ?
 

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I deleted it...seemed kinda mean and sexiest

I seriously might take a peek at the book though.
Deleted mine then.

Back on track, they both suck.

Uber dropped the plague that is Charlotte Surge here recently. I've been doing a LOT more Lyft. They're slower but the PT extends the whole trip. Uber's flat Surge sucks balls.
 

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Deleted mine then.

Back on track, they both suck.

Uber dropped the plague that is Charlotte Surge here recently. I've been doing a LOT more Lyft. They're slower but the PT extends the whole trip. Uber's flat Surge sucks balls.
One thing I agree with reading the story....Lyft did one up Uber by having the tips from launch. I also agree with having better passenger conversations on Lyft.

Haven't used Lyft much in 2018, but pretty close to 3,000 trips on Uber, and 3500 from Lyft is enough to weigh in on it.

If Lyft only left the PD bonus the way it was earlier and maybe just lowered the percentages on the driver take. I'd probably still be driving Lyft 99% of the time, but driver saturation and the fact there's probably 3-1 chances of a Uber ride quicker than Lyft based on preference in my market, did me in with them.
 

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I like the fact we have 24 hrs to rate a pax. Gives them a chance to tip.
I like the fact that a 3* and your not matched again.
Plus seeing the destination just before you get there.

However I'm biased towards lyft since I was once deact by boober over a laying pax service animal. In which my service flee is now 25%. vs 20%.

Just so happens I got dog on a shorty today. Haven't had one in months. 2*, Then the guy tips the insulting dollar. oh well.
 

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Read the article and disagreed with her. Thought she went into it with a preconceived notion and it stuck.

I did a poll here and was polar opposite of her findings.

https://uberpeople.net/threads/uber-vs-lyft-survey.278332/
I agree.

If I had to pick one, I'd have to say I like Uber better, for the simple reason that they don't sound like the whiny, nagging, biotching spouse you should have divorced 10 years ago. Uber doesn't send you this, for example:

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@@@@ off, Lyft! Who do you think you are, lol.
 

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Be kind....she is sorta kinda a serious UP lurker
Then Alex shoulda come to my town during her odyssey, I could have taken her to the Gourd Festival (yes, a real honest to G'awd gourd festival) and told her all about Lyft's shenanigans in our area.

I don't turn on Lyft unless I'm in the big city, less likelihood of getting a ping 20 miles away.
 

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No pay for long PUs, having to say you're there and not forewarning passenger, less pay and the passive aggressive stuff.

Big time Fish
Yeah, they just don't get it.

Of all the children who attempt to get rides with me, 90% of them come through on the Lyft app. That is another reason why Lyft is garbage... obviously when you get a minor you can't just cancel the ride otherwise it counts as a driver cancellation which leads to you getting a threatening message or email that you'll be fired if "there are further incidents of this behaviour". @@@@ off, Lyft; I'm not 8 years old. And now, waiting 5:00 to no show the pax often doesn't work - when I press the "Call" button in the app nothing happens and when the "No Show" button finally appears, the cancellation is not treated as a no show but a driver cancellation which again leads to the passive aggressive threat from Lyft against my account.

So now what I do is call Lyft support at each underage pax pickup attempt and have them remove the ride from my screen and pay me the $5 cancellation. This is again a pain in the arse because it takes 15 - 20 minutes on hold, then you may get a moron who doesn not know how to remove an active ride, claiming that they cannot do that, so you have to repeat the process.

You can't easily cancel rides from minors, you can't phone or text ahead to have them verify their age etc etc. All these constraints and restrictions, all this very tight control yet Lyft claims we are not their employees.... they really do suck balls. Much worse than Uber now.
 

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There's no way Lyft treats drivers better. Maybe 2-3 years ago. But Lyft has a growing list of s**tty actions against drivers. They capped surge in my market to 100%, they nag me about everything from "picking up passengers before you arrive at the location" when the pin is misplaced, to "passengers contacting you after you have picked them up," which I don't even understand, adding riders to my queue that I didn't agree to accept, refusing to upgrade rides to XL telling me "simply ask the rider to cancel and re-request as XL," which I refuse to do - that's what I pay them for, sending me pings from 30-40 minutes away, notifying me via text every time a rider cancels a request, not displaying how far away a rider is, not letting me choose "XL only," forcing me to sift through 50 regular pings, offering weak bonuses during peak hours that aren't even worth it...

Nearly everything they do is a big F U to drivers.
 
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