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If you complain about not being busy enough then not accepting pool will make it worse. Even if pool affects ratings, they get you more passengers and help you get to your bonus faster.
Being in such a busy market you shouldnt need to drive for bonuses. If I ignore a pool ping an x ping usually isnt too far off.
I find I make more money by being selective, driving x and picking up higher rated pax in hot areas then jumping on every ping hoping I hit the jackpot.
If the guarantees are too ridiculous for me (55 trips during the weekends), it wouldn't matter cause I know I wouldnt be able to do that many within a 6 hour shift per day.
I have been doing the weekday guarantees lately and I find that POOL indeed helps you. Short trips are far more prevalent during the weekdays too.
The problem with uber pool and even uber x is that eventually the buisy routine takes a toll on you and your car. The less people you drive the better. The less you are in the city the better. Better for you, your car and most of all the chances of you crashing are increased greatly if you pickup pool.
I drive but my fare average is light years higher than the average uber driver. Out ot the last 100 fares i have only a few that are below 15$ gross. I drive an suv but accept all calls even x when it surges. I never take pool even when pool is surging 2x. At 3x i may consider it
I really dont understand why anyone would consider taking a pool pax. These people would rather waste 10 minutes out of their life to save 2$ instead of hopping into an uber x and sit by them selves. I am allergic to this type of personality. Its not cheap. Its incrediblt stingy
Not trying to totally disagree with your overall statement but the difference is usually a lot more than $2. Yesterday when I took an uber it has the options showing as $11.59 uber x and $2.99 pool. Now give that option to people who take multiple ubers a day and they see that as saving potential hundreds of dollars a month.
Paulmsr uber in many markets have promitions like drive 65 trips and make 200$ more. I get them weekly and never chased them. They are designed to lower your hourly net while decreasing the possibility of surges. Ubers prime directive is to kill the surge. Having drivers chase incentives solves their surge problem
Which is a $3.08 "bonus" for each one of those 65 rides -- IF, in fact you are actually able to complete 65.
But Poo fares are way less than X, especially if you pick up additional pax.
If any number of those rides were Poo, how much did you lose in fare revenue to potentially get a bonus? I've seen complaints in some markets that the Poo is 70-80% of their pings. If you accept even 50% Poo rides, I bet you would lose money overall, even with the bonus.
i know what they are i was being sarcastic since they stopped sending them to me months ago, around here they just pick and choose who they want to give them too.. around here its mainly just boost promos now so you rarely see surges in philly area, at most 2.5 and its very brief when it does happen
This evil company is very smart. Dont understimate them. When the time comes they will pay dearly for their offenses and their private equity investors who are blind will learn a great lesson. Dont fund evil.
I was up in ct a few weeks back. Saw a crazy 3x surge up in stamford around 10pm. I knew it was fake but couldnt resist testing it. Spoofed in there on all calls and waited 10 mins. Only got pings outside of the surge zone. Riders are wising up and waiting for surge to end. I dont even take surge fares anymore its a surefire way to get lower rating. In nyc if your rating falls below 4.8 you loose black and suv dispatch so no more surge fares for me. I ignore them.
Anyone driving around with 3 pool riders in their car is directly responsible for 2 drivers sitting parked somewhere, twiddling their thumbs. All 3 of those butts should be in different cars, generating income for three drivers.
Not that you should care about other drivers, but at least be aware what's going on.
I totally agree, It's less rides for drivers, We don't have pool in my market but the only thing uber throw out to drivers in my market is boost guarantees and fairly decent surges on the weekends. Pool is a ridiculous concept to begin with, The more people in your car the more gas you burn and maintenance....You definitely lose money doing uber pools.
It's not slow, last week my friends earned payout $1.450 from Uber and $540 from lyft. He told me that he went to bar, football stadium and basket game .
I chased ubers 1.6 guarantee one day in manhattan. Took only xL pings. Couldnt break that 35$ an hour net which i can achieve on any day without boost. Its all b.s. dont chase the surge or boost. Their algo is designed to give you short fares in peak traffic if you are on boost.
When you joined UP you were clearly an Uber stooge, then you lay low for a while, now I guess you've decided you've built some credibility and can start pushing the corporate agenda again. How's Karen Stein these days? Do you guys take turns on Travis.
Uberant i am not sure if drider is an uber shill mostly because he says the same nonsense that many other drivere say. These people make 18$ an hour and they think they living large. I average over 40$ an hour net with uber and think i am a slave. Even at over 100$ an hour my opinion will not change. Uber is evil. If you are a driver for uber and think otherwise you are a fool
He was absolutely, for sure going to a meetup in SF where GoatLove was gonna give him $50 just for showing up and not being an Uber staffer. Then somehow it slipped his mind.
Yes Uber is evil, as is their Social Media Infiltration Dept.
Guys, for real, stop with the "uber shill" nonsense. Drider is a lot of things, shill is not one of them. Calling everybody you don't like/ agree with a shill is just childish and shows lack of intelligence.
I'll stick with Uber stooge thanks, athough you're clearly a more grown up person of superior intelligence, if you do say so yourself, over & over.
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