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TL DR: Lyft sucks.
Driving along, giving a Lyft ride. Get a stacked request. It shouldn't even be called a request, since I didn't have the option of accepting or declining. It should be called a stacked DEMAND. But hey, I can cancel any time, right? So as soon as the ride is over, it pops up the map and tells me to drive 4.6 miles (for free) to pick up Barbie or Akhmed or Spike or TJ or Krystel or whomever. CANCEL, I won't drive 1.5+ miles for free, especially considering the likelihood of the ride being a mini ride. Definitely not on a Fri or Sat night!!
After 3 or 4 of those cancels I get a message from Lyft: You have been cancelling too many rides lately, knock it off. Got It? My auto-response activates, and I say "F you, Lyft!" even though they can't hear me.
Next stacked ride, it is too far for me to drive (for free). But I gotta make Lyft happy, so I ignore the request and drive Uber. Somewhere out there is a Lyft pax, who has already been waiting 4 or 5 minutes for me, and now they can watch me drive in a random direction as I give an Uber ride. No, I won't answer their calls or texts, because anything I say can and will be used against me. I will simply ignore the ping until THEY cancel.
After 4 or 5 of those episodes, Lyft has just about had enough of me. They send me a different message: You need to start driving towards your passenger. Got it? Once again, my auto-response is triggered, and I blurt out "Go F yourself, Lyft."
The final straw for the night... I'm driving a Lyft pax. Almost at drop off, turn on my Uber app. I get an Uber ping nearby, and accept it. Seconds later, Lyft stacks a demand on me. I drop off my pax and check the Lyft demand. Turns out it is only 2 blocks away, closer than the Uber request. Okay, I'll head that direction and see what I've got...
Residential area, no one standing outside waiting, but then again it's 15 minutes to bar close, so I can't blame anyone for not "hanging out" on the corner in the middle of the night. I look at the destination, and it's 15 miles in the middle of frickin' nowhere. Forget it! There's no way I'm intentionally heading somewhere that I have to deadhead back from, right before bar close.
I cancel the ride. Lyft shuts me off and tells me that there's a problem with my account. I check my dashboard, and they tell me that I have 1) been cancelling too many rides, and 2) not been driving towards my pax. Therefore, I'm in a 30 minute time out. After 30 minutes, I will have the "privilege" of driving for them again.
So, I drove for Uber for the next hour and went home. Even with flat dollar surge, that still paid more than Lyft would have, since Lyft doesn't pay ANY surge in my market anymore.
Driving along, giving a Lyft ride. Get a stacked request. It shouldn't even be called a request, since I didn't have the option of accepting or declining. It should be called a stacked DEMAND. But hey, I can cancel any time, right? So as soon as the ride is over, it pops up the map and tells me to drive 4.6 miles (for free) to pick up Barbie or Akhmed or Spike or TJ or Krystel or whomever. CANCEL, I won't drive 1.5+ miles for free, especially considering the likelihood of the ride being a mini ride. Definitely not on a Fri or Sat night!!
After 3 or 4 of those cancels I get a message from Lyft: You have been cancelling too many rides lately, knock it off. Got It? My auto-response activates, and I say "F you, Lyft!" even though they can't hear me.
Next stacked ride, it is too far for me to drive (for free). But I gotta make Lyft happy, so I ignore the request and drive Uber. Somewhere out there is a Lyft pax, who has already been waiting 4 or 5 minutes for me, and now they can watch me drive in a random direction as I give an Uber ride. No, I won't answer their calls or texts, because anything I say can and will be used against me. I will simply ignore the ping until THEY cancel.
After 4 or 5 of those episodes, Lyft has just about had enough of me. They send me a different message: You need to start driving towards your passenger. Got it? Once again, my auto-response is triggered, and I blurt out "Go F yourself, Lyft."
The final straw for the night... I'm driving a Lyft pax. Almost at drop off, turn on my Uber app. I get an Uber ping nearby, and accept it. Seconds later, Lyft stacks a demand on me. I drop off my pax and check the Lyft demand. Turns out it is only 2 blocks away, closer than the Uber request. Okay, I'll head that direction and see what I've got...
Residential area, no one standing outside waiting, but then again it's 15 minutes to bar close, so I can't blame anyone for not "hanging out" on the corner in the middle of the night. I look at the destination, and it's 15 miles in the middle of frickin' nowhere. Forget it! There's no way I'm intentionally heading somewhere that I have to deadhead back from, right before bar close.
I cancel the ride. Lyft shuts me off and tells me that there's a problem with my account. I check my dashboard, and they tell me that I have 1) been cancelling too many rides, and 2) not been driving towards my pax. Therefore, I'm in a 30 minute time out. After 30 minutes, I will have the "privilege" of driving for them again.
So, I drove for Uber for the next hour and went home. Even with flat dollar surge, that still paid more than Lyft would have, since Lyft doesn't pay ANY surge in my market anymore.
