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I am going to ramble a bit first so brace yourself. First thing I notice with LYFT is that they have hourly guarantees that FAR exceed UBERS. UBER has surges where LYFT I have zero clue how it works. I can be sitting in the very middle of a 250% and get nothing for 20 minutes. Then I am in the middle of nothing and get a 100% one. You can not tell what the hell is happening. I have also noted that if you are on the guarantee clock that your runs take you a LONG way. I mean 20 to 30 mile runs. Here are a few examples.
1: Begin of the hour quick run in the pink zone. Pink zone you need one run to qualify for the guarantee grey zone you need two. Next run is from Riverview to Tarpon Springs. I kid you not...the hours I was already "in the money" they would throw 30 dollar runs at me. On the opposite side if I had one run in the "grey" zone I would get NOTHING for 45 minutes.
2: I also notice that pickups can be way the hell out there. I got one from the airport to south St. Petersburg. I got one from Gulfport to Clearwater Beach. I got one from south Tampa to Dunedin. I mean 55 minute to 90 minute pickups. The problem is with the guarantee hours that you have to have a 90% acceptance rate for THE WEEK! If you miss even a few you are out. Most crazy pings cancel but I did get one where I was on The Gandy bridge and got pinged to go NORTH of Carrolwood at 5:25 p.m. I called the pax and they said they would wait. It took me and hour and 33 minutes to get there. They waited. I got there and took them to the Wal Mart that was half a mile away. The only reason I went was the guarantees. From my calculations they were on the hook with me for about 135 dollars. But they got out of it.
3: How did they get out of it? At 1 in the morning my app froze. Seconds after it froze I got ping after ping after ping back to back. I think I got 5 or 6 so now I am out of the bonus for the week. I could not turn off the app or accept the rides.
So...Here are the questions.
1: If you drive LYFT do you notice a correlation to the guarantees?
2: If you are "in the money" do you notice that your next run is for 20 or 30 dollars?
3: If you are in the money have you noticed your app doing weird stuff that threw you out of the running?
4: Do you try to get the guarantee money or just run UBER and LYFT together and say screw them and the acceptance rate?
I am not a tinfoil hat wearing guy but it sure seems odd that this happens. I have noticed it enough that I started logging it and their does seem to be a correlation to how it is working above.
Thank you for your consideration.
1: Begin of the hour quick run in the pink zone. Pink zone you need one run to qualify for the guarantee grey zone you need two. Next run is from Riverview to Tarpon Springs. I kid you not...the hours I was already "in the money" they would throw 30 dollar runs at me. On the opposite side if I had one run in the "grey" zone I would get NOTHING for 45 minutes.
2: I also notice that pickups can be way the hell out there. I got one from the airport to south St. Petersburg. I got one from Gulfport to Clearwater Beach. I got one from south Tampa to Dunedin. I mean 55 minute to 90 minute pickups. The problem is with the guarantee hours that you have to have a 90% acceptance rate for THE WEEK! If you miss even a few you are out. Most crazy pings cancel but I did get one where I was on The Gandy bridge and got pinged to go NORTH of Carrolwood at 5:25 p.m. I called the pax and they said they would wait. It took me and hour and 33 minutes to get there. They waited. I got there and took them to the Wal Mart that was half a mile away. The only reason I went was the guarantees. From my calculations they were on the hook with me for about 135 dollars. But they got out of it.
3: How did they get out of it? At 1 in the morning my app froze. Seconds after it froze I got ping after ping after ping back to back. I think I got 5 or 6 so now I am out of the bonus for the week. I could not turn off the app or accept the rides.
So...Here are the questions.
1: If you drive LYFT do you notice a correlation to the guarantees?
2: If you are "in the money" do you notice that your next run is for 20 or 30 dollars?
3: If you are in the money have you noticed your app doing weird stuff that threw you out of the running?
4: Do you try to get the guarantee money or just run UBER and LYFT together and say screw them and the acceptance rate?
I am not a tinfoil hat wearing guy but it sure seems odd that this happens. I have noticed it enough that I started logging it and their does seem to be a correlation to how it is working above.
Thank you for your consideration.
