Lyft Prime Time
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Yeah, the app made me update it on Wednesday night and from then onwards it's gone.
I guess they saw too much cherry picking going on. But I think a lot of drivers will probably Lyft off and Uber on when both are surging because of this - I personally want to know what rate a job will be paying before taking it, especially when the other app is surging. If I know Uber is at 2.0x for example, I'll ignore Lyft pings, which could be Prime Time or just regular 1x fares... who knows?
Yes, totally agree. I was in a dark pink area got pinged 2 minutes away. Thought it was 100% prime time, turned out no prime time. It is like a scam, not doing that anymore.
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Last night in Santa Monica I experienced the same issues. I was dead smack in the surge area and got a request but the app didn't show the surge information. I took it anyways and today when I saw my daily review, the surge was indeed applied to the fare.
I do agree that the Lyft app has issues. The surge information should be shown. I don't know if they are aware of the situation but we should write in about it.
I do agree that the Lyft app has issues. The surge information should be shown. I don't know if they are aware of the situation but we should write in about it.
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It's not an error - Lyft added the ability for drivers to see Prime Time multipliers on the ride offer screen, and now they have taken away that ability.
Writing in to Lyft support about it would be a waste of time. If you got a response, it would either be an irrelevant general information sheet about something else, or a bullshit answer saying that not being able to see the PT multiplier benefits drivers in some way.
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I personally would like to see Lyft adopt something similar to Ubers surge zones.
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I think Lyft's smaller zones are a better idea - the more specific they are in terms of exactly where the demand is, the better. Coupled with the ability to see the multiplier on the ride offer screen, of course.
On Uber, an event letting out at a stadium for example will cause an area of several square miles to surge, even though there might be little or no demand in 95% of that area.
Ability to see multiplier comes first, but if you know boundary lines of the zone that your in, it'd be very helpful
This was the reason that I said zones should be much smaller then uber's,it's insane that part of the Culver C. and Hawaiian Gardens in the same zones.
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Yes coz all cars in that area get pinned better for the driver LYFT is
so stupid to do that way ! sometimes need to Magnify the screen to find
the exact area.
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