Just kind of wondering what kind of stuff you guys and gals have been running into. I started the morning around 7 with surge pretty much in every direction, however I chose not to drive towards any of it bc we all know that often backfires. First ride is about 5-6 minutes away with a $3.75 surge. Pick pax up and head to destination accept ride before drop off. Second ride is 15 minutes/5.5 miles away with "possible pick-up premium", ends up being a mother taking her kid to school and back. Takes forever, I accept another ride before drop-off, it's only a block away thankfully. I pick up 3rd pax and take him to dominion and headquarters receive the $5.50 bonus. Not too excited about the multi stop school drop-off but at this point it's only been an hour and I'm at $25 so I'm not too mad.
I do two normal rides in the area which initiates another Consecutive Trip promotion because I'm still in the 8 o'clock hour. Heres the second instance of BS. Second ride is ended at 8:32 I wait 20 minutes online receive ride request at 8:52 drop off at 9:01, receive 2nd $5.50. Now the area I waited is dotted with hotels filled with corporate commuters and I did not receive a ping for 20 minutes which says to me that Uber wanted to make sure I didn't complete the promotion and start another before the hour was over.
I ended the 2 hours with $45 and close to home so it wasn't too bad however I'm interested to see what would happen If I turned off requests during every ride to see the difference. I don't really like declining rides because I feel like you end up on the algo sh%t list after 2-3 declines for a few hours. The whole promotion is designed to keep you in lackey mode since you have to stay on line and accept every ride in a sequence. What is usually best for Uber is not good for the driver in my experience. So it makes me wonder what will happen if I do the opposite.
Any thoughts?
I do two normal rides in the area which initiates another Consecutive Trip promotion because I'm still in the 8 o'clock hour. Heres the second instance of BS. Second ride is ended at 8:32 I wait 20 minutes online receive ride request at 8:52 drop off at 9:01, receive 2nd $5.50. Now the area I waited is dotted with hotels filled with corporate commuters and I did not receive a ping for 20 minutes which says to me that Uber wanted to make sure I didn't complete the promotion and start another before the hour was over.
I ended the 2 hours with $45 and close to home so it wasn't too bad however I'm interested to see what would happen If I turned off requests during every ride to see the difference. I don't really like declining rides because I feel like you end up on the algo sh%t list after 2-3 declines for a few hours. The whole promotion is designed to keep you in lackey mode since you have to stay on line and accept every ride in a sequence. What is usually best for Uber is not good for the driver in my experience. So it makes me wonder what will happen if I do the opposite.
Any thoughts?