I always assumed that cancelling after accepting was counted as not accepting. It makes sense in any case.

My acceptance rates are way down now anyway since I never accept anyone below 4.5 and I follow a similar pattern to yours regarding cancelling for excessive distance and complex routes.

 

If you accept a ride but cancel it soon after, you really haven't accepted it anyway.

 

In seeing a lot of people's Uber statements each week, they don't pay out very much at all in incentives. Whether or not people would be on the road or not, or if their 'carrot' to keep people online is working, the cost of all these drivers being available is minimal (especially compared to the referral fees they pay)

 

Yeah, I never chased those incentives. I read about them, but we don't tout for passengers, so we can't really control who hails us. And if we don't get 1.5 rides in an hour, we don't qualify, right? Anyway, that's what I read it as meaning...

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It's calculated as an average.

Example: You get 8 rides in 5 hours, but you had some hours where you didn't get any rides at all.

You get the full incentive payment for ALL of the 5 hours, because the average rides per hour (8/5) is greater than 1.5

 

I know a few drivers who received a sms over the past few weeks warning them about their completion rates!

At a guess Uber is starting to look at drivers who accept and cancel requests in order to keep a high acceptance rate.

I have also had a few riders tell me that drivers have called them to tell them to cancel, so that the driver doesn't have to do it (smart move)

I do a mix of ignore requests, accept and cancels and accept and not move from where I am parked, which leads the customer to either call and then cancel or just cancel. If I am parked in South Melbourne waiting for a fare, I am not going to drive 15+ minutes to Carlton to pick up someone which will likely be a $6-$10 fare of which I make $5-$8 for 30 mins work!

I do not accept requests that are 4.6 stars or below as they are generally annoying riders (no destination, wants to give directions, want to go around all the back streets, asks for mints/water/chocolates etc) however I will accept 1, 2, 3, 4 or 3.5, 4,5 stars as those customers have generally only had 1 or 2 rides with Uber before

I provide a clean safe and comfortable ride and that is it. However during surge fares if the fare is more than $15 I'll offer to change the radio/music and also offer water that I have in the glovebox. I'll also change the radio/music and offer water on any fare more than $25 with no surge, such as airport trips and outer suburb trips as the cost of water 0.25c per bottle is okay on these

 

Majority of my accept and cancel or ignore requests are for low rates riders. If Uber ever question me on that I'll have no hesitation in explaining that I am not going to pick up poorly rated customers!

 

Hi UXDriver - welcome to the forum! Always nice to hear from other Melb drivers. Its seems like we are on the same page when it comes to criteria for accepting trips.

 

Hi gOOr - you are possibly the only person in Australia that is in a position to see the big and real picture across the board for us all .....
Without breaching any concept of confidentiality on an individual basis are you in a position to make any general statements on the uber / general ride sharing industry overall and financially ?
Would be greatly appreciated to get a professional and unbiased viewpoint for a change ..
Thanks SSDD

 

In regards to hourly guarantees?
I just ran a report on miscellaneous items over the past 3 weeks, in that time $850 has been paid to all members
600 of that was for referral bonuses. The majority of people see the same thing 'you did not qualify for this incentive'

 

So in essence the guarantees are simply a great marketing strategy with so many conditions that they rarely pay out to anyone ?
What about the claimed top earnings - many of these seem unobtainable - and uber knows they can claim any figures as we all have no way o disproving their claims .
Cheers SSDD

 

I don't know how many hours people actually spend on the road, but the majority of PP members seem to do it part time.
The full timers generally do about 1600 - 1750 in fares per week

 

@glados you really are naive .... you spout spin and bullshit from a "theoretical" or textbook viewpoint.

You make broad sweeping statements without backing them up with real life experience as a. UBER X Driver... the only reference point i have read that you have ever given is Uber Web sites, Uber financed surveys, and general Uber propaganda.... and yet when others post counter opinions and use media surveys ...you dismiss them as biased and weighted to give the desired outcome. ...

You , young lady, are akin to a religious zealot that quotes extracts from doctrine "as if it is fact" ....

Just ask a Scientologist, or a Moonie, or a Jim Jones devotee, or a Westboro Baptist Hate Church member.....they all have something in common with you ... blind, misguded faith in "the word of the leader"

 

I've said it before and backed it up with images, during incentive or guaranteed hours your request times and distances raise substancially in the hope you'll either not accept and fall below the requirements or the good thing for Uber is passengers will most likely get collected no matter how far away they are from the driver making it barely profitable let alone adequate compensation for the time invested.

 

Accepting the job and then cancelling counts as accepting as there are costs and time loss issues related to the cancellation as well as it discourages others from cancelling jobs.

 

For the first time this week,, I saw on two people's statements (paraphrasing) 'did not qualify for incentive because your rating was too low (4.5) 4.6 minimum'
I never new that rating was part of the deal.

 

It's clearly detailed on the relevant websites. E.g http://www.uberqld.info/incentives-bne/

 

Thanks Uber Glados!

 

If you want to get your acceptance rate up, have a friend that is standing right next to you order an uber and then have them cancel right away. and repeat

 

If you want to get your acceptance rate up, have a friend that is standing right next to you order an uber and then have them cancel right away. and repeat

This does not work in Australia

 

Until uber fool will come...