[3.75]

Right so run both LUBER platforms and selectively miss quests.

This. Don't use Uber for 2 weeks and they'll lower the quest. Dont use it for a month and you'll get emails and a crazy low quest to bring you back. Then they up you back to 70 for weekdays, 65 on weekends.

This week (mon-thurs) my Quest is at its lowest point in a long time. 28/$50. Upsetting really.

This is better than my quest last week. 43/$40. I'd do the 28 honestly. That's 7 rides in 4 days. That could easy get knocked out between 5 and 8.

 

[WaveRunner1]

This. Don't use Uber for 2 weeks and they'll lower the quest. Dont use it for a month and you'll get emails and a crazy low quest to bring you back. Then they up you back to 70 for weekdays, 65 on weekends.

This is better than my quest last week. 43/$40. I'd do the 28 honestly. That's 7 rides in 4 days. That could easy get knocked out between 5 and 8.

Yea for $100+ it would be worth it. Uber really knows how to kill motivation. Poor Quest and low Boosts. If I decided to skip Quest I could have relied on 2.0x Boost weekdays in the past but those days are clearly gone. I drive no more than 7-10 days a month now. I now know Uber's massive recruitment push wasn't intended to serve demand. It was to push us who expect more away while newer ignorant drivers have no idea. This way they can offer low promotions and eventually probably no promotions at all.

 

[3.75]

That's the interesting part about the advertisement. Driving around DC, Lyft advertises heavily to pax. Uber advertises to get new drivers, as if that's what they really need more of. I guess they count on their recognition as far as pax goes. They think everyone knows what "Uber" is but don't know they can be a driver too.

Lyft does the guarantee thing for advertising to drivers but they also advertise on bus stops to the pax. That one is actually smart imo.

 

[CHIGiRL]

Mine is freaking joke. Uber can suck it.

 

[3.75]

View attachment 183846 Mine is freaking joke. Uber can suck it.

What the hell?

And I thought last week's quest was bad. 70 for $60. Thats literally pennies on the dollar.

Things got interesting for me.

Basically I can only do rush hour on Uber now, so they don't raise my quest. Interesting enough, it went down despite me making 45 trips instead of 43 last week for quest.

 

[New2This]

View attachment 183846 Mine is freaking joke. Uber can suck it.

Rohit likes me better.

If Rohit doesn't up your Quest you gonna shank his ass?

 

[CHIGiRL]

Rohit likes me better.

View attachment 183848

If Rohit doesn't up your Quest you gonna shank his ass?

Nah lol...I won't drive though. Quest is what motivates me to drive and this one pretty much sucks. I guess Rohit likes you better.

 

[WaveRunner1]

Nah lol...I won't drive though. Quest is what motivates me to drive and this one pretty much sucks. I guess Rohit likes you better.

Exactly, some don't like Quest but for me it's a decent system and motivator assuming the price is right. Either way, Rohit, Dara, Rachel, Satan whoever is running Uber is doing a poor job at driver retention.

 

[koyotemohn]

43 for 60... yeah ....

 

[New2This]

Exactly, some don't like Quest but for me it's a decent system and motivator assuming the price is right. Either way, Rohit, Dara, Rachel, Satan whoever is running Uber is doing a poor job at driver retention.

Also if the number for Quest needed is attainable.

Quest and Boost are both designed to suppress surge. I'm amazed that none of the investors question the wisdom of that. I know to an extent they're afraid of scaring off the snowflakes with higher prices, but surge means some people are willing to pay extra especially in inclement weather or special events. At this point people have proven they're willing to pay for the convenience.

As an investor and Uber came to me wanting money, I'd wonder the following of Dara and Rohit:

*You have people that are willing to pay extra for your service. You want to use my money to subsidize these customers, rather than letting them pay what they've demonstrated they're willing to pay?

*You're spending how much of my money on driver recruitment? You have a churn rate of over 90%, and you want to spend more of my money on this?

*You use Boost and Quest to incentivize driversas well as subsidize rides, because drivers have shown that the rates you're charging/paying are too low. You want to use more of my money for this?

Unless they made some long-term changes to make money (fleecing drivers is not a long-term strategy), I wouldn't give them dime one.

 

[yankdog]

Please don't give up on the anger. Makes my days better lol

 

[WaveRunner1]

Also if the number for Quest needed is attainable.

Quest and Boost are both designed to suppress surge. I'm amazed that none of the investors question the wisdom of that. I know to an extent they're afraid of scaring off the snowflakes with higher prices, but surge means some people are willing to pay extra especially in inclement weather or special events. At this point people have proven they're willing to pay for the convenience.

As an investor and Uber came to me wanting money, I'd wonder the following of Dara and Rohit:

*You have people that are willing to pay extra for your service. You want to use my money to subsidize these customers, rather than letting them pay what they've demonstrated they're willing to pay?

*You're spending how much of my money on driver recruitment? You have a churn rate of over 90%, and you want to spend more of my money on this?

*You use Boost and Quest to incentivize driversas well as subsidize rides, because drivers have shown that the rates you're charging/paying are too low. You want to use more of my money for this?

Unless they made some long-term changes to make money (fleecing drivers is not a long-term strategy), I wouldn't give them dime one.

If driver pay simply doubled I wouldn't need Boost or Quest. We'd still have occasional Surge. Thing is Uber needs rates at least triple to make profits.

 

[UluValea]

Also several people have posted that once they made a habit of hitting the bigger 65/70 ride Quest, they ONLY got that as a Quest. The baby Quest vanished.

I can attest to this. I only really drive on the weekend and would hit quest pretty easy(I have no other life besides work). Baby quests have been a thing of the past for a while now.

 

[3.75]

If driver pay simply doubled I wouldn't need Boost or Quest. We'd still have occasional Surge. Thing is Uber needs rates at least triple to make profits.

And here lies the basic problem. Uber could raise the price on the pax to match a cab and pay us close to what a cab driver makes. The problem is that they're scared to lose that competitive edge but in reality most pax will pay the price because of convenience. No matter which way it is painted, people will need the ride apps because of it's simplicity.

 

[Tars Tarkas]

And here lies the basic problem. Uber could raise the price on the pax to match a cab and pay us close to what a cab driver makes. The problem is that they're scared to lose that competitive edge but in reality most pax will pay the price because of convenience. No matter which way it is painted, people will need the ride apps because of it's simplicity.

The few pax I've talked to cure convenience and reliability, not price.

 

[koyotemohn]

I finished the quest by heading to olney....it was lonely getting there but on the way I got the 5 pings I needed. I can’t remember who gave me that advice here but I am forever grateful. I turnt my account on at 8pm(in my crib) and b4 I knew the dillio....it was 845. By plotting a course to olney via waze I caught what we all want the most at the end of quest...short trips. So the propagation of the strategy is to envision all the outer enclaves like olney Maryland ...and find your way over they around 8-12am.

 

[UluValea]

I finished the quest by heading to olney....it was lonely getting there but on the way I got the 5 pings I needed. I can't remember who gave me that advice here but I am forever grateful. I turnt my account on at 8pm(in my crib) and b4 I knew the dillio....it was 845. By plotting a course to olney via waze I caught what we all want the most at the end of quest...short trips. So the propagation of the strategy is to envision all the outer enclaves like olney Maryland ...and find your way over they around 8-12am.

Congrats! I missed mine by 4. I'm so mad. Drove around almost an hour of getting no pings, while being cut off by drivers going to theirs. I even posted in Adams Morgan and DuPont for awhile and nothing. Sigh

 

[warrior lady]

I wracked up about 6 trips between 11:30-1am. I needed 8 for quest (got 2 earlier). I finished Quest at 1am...Usually never finish up that early... I usually end quest in DC but kept getting pulled to VA.Alexandria and Olde Towne. Worked like a charm. Last 3 were pool in Alexandria at 12;30. What are the odds of that...It's beautiful when it works out like clockwork...I may try Alexandria and Olde Towne more often to wrack up pool rides for quest. Dc has too many ants sometimes.

Congrats! I missed mine by 4. I'm so mad. Drove around almost an hour of getting no pings, while being cut off by drivers going to theirs. I even posted in Adams Morgan and DuPont for awhile and nothing. Sigh

You still have 55 minutes right? Have your friends request short rides or get creative with it. Good luck.

 

[koyotemohn]

Congrats! I missed mine by 4. I'm so mad. Drove around almost an hour of getting no pings, while being cut off by drivers going to theirs. I even posted in Adams Morgan and DuPont for awhile and nothing. Sigh

If you were online call in by phone. Realtalk.

I wracked up about 6 trips between 11:30-1am. I needed 8 for quest (got 2 earlier). I finished Quest at 1am...Usually never finish up that early... I usually end quest in DC but kept getting pulled to VA.Alexandria and Olde Towne. Worked like a charm. Last 3 were pool in Alexandria at 12;30. What are the odds of that...It's beautiful when it works out like clockwork...I may try Alexandria and Olde Towne more often to wrack up pool rides for quest. Dc has too many ants sometimes.

You still have 55 minutes right? Have your friends request short rides or get creative with it. Good luck.

It's funny how you start counting the remaining trips, though...right?

 

[UluValea]

You still have 55 minutes right? Have your friends request short rides or get creative with it. Good luck.

If you were online call in by phone. Realtalk.

I gave up. Drove around for a while more. Went DuPont, Adams Morgan, Georgetown. Back to DuPont, then Adams Morgan again, then to Clarendon, still nothing. Drove all through Arlington and nothing. I gave up and went home.