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Turned down a $500 ride

6K views 163 replies 63 participants last post by  sellkatsell44 
#1 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
 
#12 · (Edited)
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
I'll take 2 of those 7 days a week
Thank you very much ?
Not alot of days you can make a grand...
 
#15 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
Too many red flags
No no no no, I don't $&@!? No more.
 
#24 ·
I have made friends millions of dollars. I have turned down a number of opportunities and offers.

I have little interest in money. Free time is more valuable to me. I made a vow years ago to live a modest life. Though I understand the necessity of the rise and fall of capitalism, I am wired for a more advanced, quickly approaching future.

Wealth is truly relative. Most of my heroes had/have little money.
 
#25 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
I picked up this lady from the hospital.I had already driven over 20 miles and the sh*try Uber navigation sysyrm didn't tell me the location of pick up was a hospital.

The guard in the hospital tells me she's a POS.
This old last gets in my car and she's actually pretty cool. I drive her to her house on the country.
Would I do it again? No, but she was cool
 
#31 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
You should have at least Gone and checked it out. At 12:30 at night there's a multitude of reasons why the other drivers may not have wanted the ride.
maybe it was nearing the end of the shift for the other drivers. They didn't want to commit to that many additional hours. Or maybe they had another commitment in the morning and needed their sleep. There's a lot of reasons why somebody could have declined the ride.
What's the big deal about somebody being released from a hospital? generally when somebody is released there in Better Health than when they went in. He sustained some type of an injury from a fall. So maybe he's wearing a cast. the woman said he can walk.
There's a lot of Asian people that have more money than God. Go in any casino and you will see Asian people playing high stakes. After three rejections I'm sure she was probably getting desperate at that point.
All I'm saying is you should have gone and checked it out in person. Assess the situation and make up your own mind Based on facts.
It could have been the easiest money you've ever made. Of course now you'll never know.
 
#34 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
Nope. They need to call medical transport. Uber has one some places but you have to have a third party lisc to help people in and out and he might have issues. Besides you will never get a ride back if he don't pay ya

Unless there is more to the story I would have taken it. No likey $$$? You are projecting and speculating on too many bad things. If you want to project the worse that could happen don't take any rides. Each ride you take can end badly, fyi.
It's not allowed if he needs help walking.or getting in and out. Ya have to call uber medical. They have a third party lisc.
 
#52 ·
Nope. They need to call medical transport. Uber has one some places but you have to have a third party lisc to help people in and out and he might have issues. Besides you will never get a ride back if he don't pay ya


It's not allowed if he needs help walking.or getting in and out. Ya have to call uber medical. They have a third party lisc.
Honestly, what the hell are you talking about??? I've been driving for years and thousands of rides. Not allowed????.
 
#39 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
Nobody got released from a hospital or jail at 3:00 AM.
 
#42 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
Are you high to refuse real money? Some people don't even make that after taxes on their weekly income.
 
#45 ·
Without being a big ass-hole like some other, I'm not quite sure I have the whole picture.
You said SHE called and told you about the PAX
I've had a few that are set up and paid by health care providers.
In fact the last one was an older blind gentleman. The coordinator told me she had had problems getting reliable drivers before.
I told her I was 65 so I understood and be sure to take good care of him In addition, I gave her my phone number and told her if she had issues in the future, be sure to call me and I'd try to do the ride. Wasn't a big deal at all.
I have know idea if that was the situation with yours but could have been.
 
#49 ·
12:30am 185 mile ride. Called pax, she was Asian and offered me $300 cash on top of fare. I told her that I was already committed to an obligation for $100. She offered $100 more. Asked about pax. She told me he was being released from a hospital from falling and hurting himself. I expressed concern about a hospital release. "Oh he can walk."

"Sorry, pass."

"You are fourth Uber who say no."

I would have arrived at 3-4am. No thanks. 3 hours with a pax released from a hospital wasn't even worth $600.
Whats to stop the next guy that you haul for $3.71 from having a stroke and lights out? I would take 5th floor as long as they had all their meds. Maybe cause I already did a lot of that stuff.
 
#50 · (Edited)
I'd have done it. I pick people up from the hospital all the time. A couple weekends ago I took a 65 year old guy who had heart surgery about 60 miles. He was totally fine, and we had great conversation the whole way. If they're getting out of the hospital, they're medically cleared. I would've at least checked it out.
 
#53 ·
If you are rich you shouldn't have done it. I think if you need to make car payments and have other bills you should have done it. The other problem is it's awfully late to be doing a 185 mile ride. So if you're going to come back home at 8 in the morning you might hit rush hour traffic which could be awful when you're tired. There's so many factors that go into this.
 
#56 · (Edited)
Your username suggests money is a very strong motivator to you....
good at math ≠ love of money

My thing is, if OP didn't want criticism, second-guessing or opposing opinions, why waste his or our time posting in the first place? Can you say "drama queen"? ?
I'm not telling people they are wrong. I'm further explaining my position. I know that most of the unemployable on here are led like dogs to beef jerky when it comes to money.

Without being a big ass-hole like some other, I'm not quite sure I have the whole picture.
You said SHE called and told you about the PAX
I've had a few that are set up and paid by health care providers.
In fact the last one was an older blind gentleman. The coordinator told me she had had problems getting reliable drivers before.
I told her I was 65 so I understood and be sure to take good care of him In addition, I gave her my phone number and told her if she had issues in the future, be sure to call me and I'd try to do the ride. Wasn't a big deal at all.
I have know idea if that was the situation with yours but could have been.
I got the ping. I have Uber Pro, so it said 185 minutes west. I called pax after I accepted the ping to get the low down while en route. Processed the info, didn't feel good about it, and canceled.

I was already in line to make $400. This would have been $200 more with too many questionable variables plus a night in a hotel in a remote area.

I chose the peaceful money.

If there wasn't a medical release factor and it wasn't 12:30 at night and a sense of desperation in the woman's voice, I would have been more open to the idea.

I make $200 on simple buy and resell items. $200 is easy money in my mind and this ride didn't seem so easy.
 
#57 ·
good at math ≠ love of money


I'm not telling people they are wrong. I'm further explaining my position. I know that most of the unemployable on here are led like dogs to beef jerky when it comes to money.


I got the ping. I have Uber Pro, so it said 185 minutes west. I called pax after I accepted the ping to get the low down while en route. Processed the info, didn't feel good about it, and canceled.

I was already in line to make $400. This would have been $200 more with too many questionable variables plus a night in a hotel in a remote area.

I chose the peaceful money.

If there wasn't a medical release factor and it wasn't 12:30 at night and a sense of desperation in the woman's voice, I would have been more open to the idea.

I make $200 on simple buy and resell items. $200 is easy money in my mind and this ride didn't seem so easy.
What I'd like to know is what is the big deal about being released from a hospital?
I've been hospitalized in the past and when I was released I was no different than anybody else. I'm sure there are exceptions Just like there would be with anything. I just don't understand why you would lump everybody into the same category.
 
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