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With the #DeleteUber campaign and the plethora of bad press Uber/Travis ha been getting the time is NOW! to pressure Uber to add a tip feature.

How does one start a campaign like this? If we could get it to trend on Twitter? The main stumbling block had been Travis' personal objection to the tipping culture.

For a true cashless experience Uber needs to add tips in the app.
 

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I did 90% plus of my business on lyft last weekend. Not sure i need Uber really and may leave it off this weekend.
Unless of course I see blood red....

Just leave Lyft on there's your tip option.
How many tips does it take to equal that $1500 difference btwn Uber's $1,000 deductible and Lyft's $2500 one?

What is the lesser of two evils here?
 

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With the #DeleteUber campaign and the plethora of bad press Uber/Travis ha been getting the time is NOW! to pressure Uber to add a tip feature.

How does one start a campaign like this? If we could get it to trend on Twitter? The main stumbling block had been Travis' personal objection to the tipping culture.

For a true cashless experience Uber needs to add tips in the app.
I don't know how to make anything go viral, but consider a campaign of #TipOurUberDrivers made at twitter, amplified by "Thunderclap" (https://www.thunderclap.it/about) and then "subscribed to" by Uber Drivers and their friends and families recruited at reddit, and facebook ridesharing groups.

Get a very diverse group of drivers of all ages, races, religions, etc. to send in selfies of themselves in their uber and at home, school, or work all tagged with #TipOurUberDrivers

+ housewives in front of their kids
+ retirees driving around well clothed young millennials
+ "disadvantaged" college students in classrooms
+ drivers with their cars at the car wash and driving out of a tire store with new tires

Take the best of those selfies, get someone with a good voice to make several 30 second video slideshow of them

+ I enjoy driving, and so does my family
+ I enjoy driving, but the rates have gotten lower
+ I enjoy driving, and it helps pay for my schoolbooks
+ I enjoy driving, but the costs keep going up

If you get traction for that and it looks good, shout it out to twitter journalists at Pando, Buzzfeed especially, Guardian, HuffPo and ask them to tweet about the campaign or write an article about it.

If I knew how to make videos I'd be doing that.
 

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I was just discussing Uber with someone and he thought his account was set up to automatically tip 20%. I had to explain that tipping could only be added through the app with UberTaxi. That just goes to show you how closely some people look at their bill.
 

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With the #DeleteUber campaign and the plethora of bad press Uber/Travis ha been getting the time is NOW! to pressure Uber to add a tip feature.

How does one start a campaign like this? If we could get it to trend on Twitter? The main stumbling block had been Travis' personal objection to the tipping culture.

For a true cashless experience Uber needs to add tips in the app.
Travis never will add tips. The best hope is Travis is removed as CEO as someone takes the position that is more amiable to it.
 
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