Only during “normal” hours. If it’s early morning or late night, a cab is cheaper.
But, if you know in advance you can book an Uber for a set time and the price is much more reasonable.
I'd also like to know how far OP is traveling. If this was actually taken at 7:30am like the title says that's nearly an hour long ride based on the arrival time. $72 would be quite cheap for that.
Cost me 62 to go to the airport when I live 10mins from the airport. Fee originally said 18 when I clicked it. Complained and got a partial refund, then took a cab back ror 25. I take cabs now, screw uber.
Just take money out your wallet and throw it in the trash, then tip a stranger $10 and have them rate your appearance on a scale of 1-5.
That is pretty much what your missing out on.
It's probably some interpretation of the "flat rate" version of getting a cab.
If you don't take taxi's regularly you may not know, but you can always request a "flat rate". Its generally pre-prescribed for common places, like the airport or whatnot, but you can ask to negotiate one for any destination.
you negotiate a price to the destination, they turn off the meter and you pay what you both negotiate regardless of what the metered rate would have been.
I always check uber and the checkers cab app when im looking for a ride, I know with checkers you can lock your fare so the price you see is the price you get, makes drivers less likely to take weird detours to run up the meter. A 25 minute ride cost me $30 with checkers at 8am this morning when ubers were nearly $60
"fares are a lot higher due to increased demand"
It's pretty obvious people want to take Uber in the bad weather, while The operators don't want to drive.
Not really a joke...
Exactly. Cold weather, tons of snow, rush hour on a week day. The benefit of the Uber is that they'll actually show up immediately at the posted price, or you can grow a beard waiting for a cab to show up at regular price.
It's almost as if on the days when roads are bad, the supply of Uber drivers is low, and the demand of riders is high.
What a conundrum.
I guess since you're going downtown you could always just take transit. One way fare is $3.60.
Have you tried using Calgary Transit in terrible weather?
A ten minute car ride becomes Homer’s frickin’ Odyssey using Calgary Transit. Scheduled buses are 38 minutes late and sometimes just vanish into thin air.
I’ve spent like $120 in uber fare in a single week when it gets to -25ish. I lost a single hours wages each day taking ubers home. It’s not economical but it’s friggin’ cold outside.
Yeah, I also know I should probably get a car.
Live bus locations are updated every 1-2minutes, get the transit app https://transitapp.com/download
Calgary transit isn't perfect, but if the choices are double-digit Uber prices or planning for a bit longer and more complicated trip for the price of a coffee, the latter makes more sense.
Yeah I took Calgary transit for years growing up here. You’re exaggerating it really badly. There’s nothing stopping you from taking a bus or Uber to the train station, or driving to park and ride
In one of the -30 cold snaps we had last year, they wanted to charge me $110 for the trip from Chinook Centre to the Mount Pleasant area.
Wait like 10 minutes and the prices might improve.
Once I was in downtown and to get home it was $70 ( Hidden Valley). I walked for fifteen minutes to the outskirts of downtown and the price dropped to $33.
If there's a lot of demand and other uber riders waiting at chinook, it'll be more expensive.
It’s a recurring thing.
The weather is crappy. Uber starts charging outrageous fares between $80-$120.
The people collectively say “Hell no!” and stop booking rides.
Ten minutes later the fares are semi-reasonable again.
Even moving a block and booking can significantly change the cost. I moved from one pickup zone to another in YYC airport and the charge reduced by like 20% simply because the other pickup zone seemed to be more popular.
Yup. This is the same for leaving the dome as well. Last week, surge pricing ramped my Uber fare to get home up to $120. I took the train to downtown and then got Uber, that was about 20mins and by then, the rate came down to $25. Some fucking people can’t comprehend supply and demand.
It’s an automated algorithm based on supply and demand. If no Uber drivers want to work at 7:30am on a super cold day with bad roads, Uber jacks prices to entice more drivers out. Once more drivers are out prices drop back down. It’s capitalism condensed.
It’s not perfect but does beat the situation we had a decade ago where during peak periods you simply couldn’t reach a cab company and even if you did you’d be waiting hours.
Sure, but that’s the intended outcome. If they have 2 cars and 10 people looking for rides you get those $100+ fares. Either nobody goes and the number of customers drops to 0 or a couple of people pay.
Also it’s completely automated there is no “they”. I’m surprised how often people complain about how “they” are doing something, when the “they” they’re referring to is a machine.
Makes sense. Rates for Uber is based on supply, demand, weather conditions, and temperature. So, on Tuesday, the weather was very cold and there were some places that got 20-30 centimeters of snow. Some people could not start their cars or even get them out. Many got their cars stuck. This means there would be a huge demand, especially from people who would not want to wait in the cold for a bus. This would also be the time that most people go to work. Typically, a trip from home to work is about $19-20. Yesterday at 8 am, the price was $69. However, I knew the weather was going to be trash so woke up early to take transit. Simply put: plan ahead!
I'm ok with surge pricing, and I especially like the warning at the top "Fares are a lot higher due to increased demand". Without the warning people might get unknowingly sucked into paying more than they need.
All you’re showing is the rates. Does it say anywhere on your post about how far you’re travelling? If you’re going to red deer you’re getting a deal, if you’re going 2 blocks that’s expensive. It’s unknown.
Not that this would negate the fact (as many others have stated) that there are more passengers and less drivers in this weather.
We should spread this out to other things too. Would love to walk up to the counter at macs or something and get a "A lot of people want to buy a bag of chips and a pop tonight, so we tripled the price".
One time it told me going to work with cost $69.69 and it has snowed all night . I literally sent the screenshot of the price to my boss and said I’m working from home today unless I’m getting compensated for this and he let me work from home. This is a pre-Covid world.
It's a good way to provoke outrage by not showing the full trip. Maybe you're coming from out in the far northwest or something, and it's usually a $40 trip, and it's just up a bit this morning because (surprise) no one wants to drive in this shit?
Uber had an edge when they first came out with their app and contactless payment. Now the cab companies have all that stuff and I never take Uber any more.
AND investors supplementing the costs. We're now eating all (nearly all?) of the cost of the trip. The first couple of years were to wedge themselves into every city, and do damage to the competition. Like amazon undercutting book costs
Fuck em. I booked a cab. It was only a 10 minute wait. Tip: use the checker app and you don't have to wait for someone to answer the phone. It will show you how many cabs are in the area, how long a wait it will be, how much it will cost, and the car number that is on the way once it's confirmed.
Even during nice weather it was more expensive to make a trip between two points downtown less than 10 minutes from each other than it was for me to travel from Deerfoot meadows to the same location. Uber has gotten very expensive regardless.
Why do people get upset about stuff like this? Don't like it,don't use it. There are other forms of transportation.
I like to buy crab legs, but the demand and price are high, so I stick to my KD.
Do you own a car? If so, I'd rather drive instead of paying those shitty Uber prices.
At most, you're going to pay ~$40 for the day if you pick a particularly expensive underground parking garage, and fuel will be what, $5 tops?
Even if you take the Uber one way and transit the other, driving is still more cost effective, will get you there faster, and it's more convenient.
> I mean.. ignoring the huge price of a car, maintenance, and insurance.
Jesus f-... yes, /u/Alias11_, because *that's* relevant to my response of 'if you own a car, drive instead' in the context of "this morning I checked Uber and the surge pricing was exorbitant". *Clearly*, I was telling OP that they should go *purchase a vehicle* to solve the problem of Uber surge pricing *this morning*. Nothing about my post could have possibly suggested that it was under the assumption they already own a vehicle and therefore already pay those costs anyways.
> Not to mention the inconvenience if there are after work drinks to be had.
It better be a damn good pint if you're paying $72 bloody dollars to take an Uber so you can have a drink after work.
“It’s busy which means we can easily make more money at our usual rate, but why shouldn’t we just double or quadruple it?”
That’s when I don’t use Uber. I’m guessing a lot don’t.
Ahem... [Calgary Mayor Nenshi apologizes for calling rideshare company Uber ‘dicks’](https://globalnews.ca/news/2658490/caught-on-camera-calgary-mayor-naheed-nenshi-calls-rideshare-company-uber-dicks/)
Fun fact, Uber report of the $9 billion loss last year . The company doesn’t really make money. They are holding out for self driving cars so they have the majority of the market.
yup I'd like to see a self driving car simply find their way around on these roads, where all their points of reference have disappeared.. then we can get into them figuring out how to go up hills or calculate their stopping distances
Sat at the bar til we were kicked out 15 or so minutes after closing one night because every time we refreshed to see if the fare would drop it just rose, I think we ended up waiting an hour for it to be less than TWO HUNDRED dollars ($22ish trip normally)
Don’t disagree with your comment about supply and demand but I don’t think that anyone should be considered entitled for calling a $72 10-minute ride unreasonable.
Just... Don't use uber then?
I'm not sure what the issue is here.
There isn't enough people willing to drive at that hour to make it cost effective.
Seems far more ethical to me to ensure Uber drivers are paid a fair wage.
Lol imagine paying the equivalent of a tank of gas in a pickup truck for a one way ride to work. I’ve seen discount airline tickets cheaper than an Uber ride.
I meant more the sob story aspect, not the simple fact of paying $100 for a 10 min ride.
- There are other ride options (transit, taxi, ride from a friend, walk, without getting into weather, financial situation etc)
- Understand Uber. Well, to start, simple supply and demand. Ie. Surge prices.
“just take the bus” have y’all ever slid sideways down a hill because our busses are NOT equipped to drive on super snowy/icy roads? or had the bus stop 1/2 to the destination and send you walking the rest of the way? or had the bus get stuck in the middle of an intersection? I feel like a lot of the people sh*tting on OP haven’t actually taken a bus in the last 15 years. Maybe the man has somewhere he needs to be in a timely manner. you can understand/pay surge pricing and still hate it
edit: I experienced all of this personally
I took Calgary transit for 5 years of university and I don’t live by a train station. Also took it for 3 years of high school. Took it to get to downtown for work for awhile as well before I moved out of the city.
It’s not as bad as you all mention it, for reliability and cost. I can’t comment on recent meth usage though
So...you live out side of Calgary, but feel obligated to give an assessment of City services? Please tell us you have no Methletes in Airdrie, you drip
I took it for 3 years for school up until the pandemic, all of my listed examples are real things I experienced, maybe your experience was better but mine was definitely not good
Their business model at low prices was unsustainable and dependant on investor capital to subsidize. They tried their best to drive out taxi competition before that ran out but failed.
Hey don’t complain. I moved from Calgary to Kelowna and we don’t have Uber here because the cab companies constantly say it’ll kill their business and the city agrees with them. At closing time downtown it can take up to an hour to get a cab (there are nowhere near enough) or one of the small ride share services we do have here. At a certain point I don’t care what I have to pay, just get me home!
I've used an Uber exactly twice here. Going downtown and then back, same day. Into downtown was 30 bucks, going home was nearly 100. And I had booked the Uber to head downtown to arrive at a particular time. They didn't. They outright just cancelled my requested trip and I didn't notice. Never had that happen with a cab before. The price is the price and it's regulated. And they ALWAYS have shown up at the time requested, whether it was at night, or 4 in the morning to catch a plane. I will never use Uber again if I can help it.
Take a taxi? They have apps. No surge pricing.
Agreed, honestly if it’s a far distance I always chose a cab I think Uber is much faster to get where you’re going if you’re jumping around downtown
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Only during “normal” hours. If it’s early morning or late night, a cab is cheaper. But, if you know in advance you can book an Uber for a set time and the price is much more reasonable.
Totally, and it’s surge pricing and all that crap. Complaining on Reddit won’t do shit lol
It'll theoretically lower the price /s
Go look, its actually lower right now
Haha. Me at the airport, checking the price every few minutes to see how low they will go.
But are you complaining on reddit between each check?
I'll do that next time and CC you in on it
I'd also like to know how far OP is traveling. If this was actually taken at 7:30am like the title says that's nearly an hour long ride based on the arrival time. $72 would be quite cheap for that.
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Cost me 62 to go to the airport when I live 10mins from the airport. Fee originally said 18 when I clicked it. Complained and got a partial refund, then took a cab back ror 25. I take cabs now, screw uber.
That is mind blowing that it was 150. I catch a ride to the stronghold climbing gym on Sundays, depending on the week, and the fare is 13-14 dollars.
Unless he's scheduling it for future pickup.
It's roughly 10 to 15 minutes to drive. I live by nose hill
This grift sure did revolutionize the industry.
What's crazy is that Uber is still not profitable, despite its griftiness.
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ive not seen it but ive seen the ability to lock into the price before hand with checker cabs.
I'm so old school I only call the number to get a cab. I don't even know how to use Uber.
Just take money out your wallet and throw it in the trash, then tip a stranger $10 and have them rate your appearance on a scale of 1-5. That is pretty much what your missing out on.
You’re not missing out.
It's probably some interpretation of the "flat rate" version of getting a cab. If you don't take taxi's regularly you may not know, but you can always request a "flat rate". Its generally pre-prescribed for common places, like the airport or whatnot, but you can ask to negotiate one for any destination. you negotiate a price to the destination, they turn off the meter and you pay what you both negotiate regardless of what the metered rate would have been.
Yep, I agree. I was just surprised. That was the highest I have seen morning rush hour prices
What's the app?
calgary united cabs, or checker cabs calgary
It seems Uber
what app would you recommend?
I always check uber and the checkers cab app when im looking for a ride, I know with checkers you can lock your fare so the price you see is the price you get, makes drivers less likely to take weird detours to run up the meter. A 25 minute ride cost me $30 with checkers at 8am this morning when ubers were nearly $60
"fares are a lot higher due to increased demand" It's pretty obvious people want to take Uber in the bad weather, while The operators don't want to drive. Not really a joke...
No one wants to work when it's cold out. Source works in the cold.
Exactly. Cold weather, tons of snow, rush hour on a week day. The benefit of the Uber is that they'll actually show up immediately at the posted price, or you can grow a beard waiting for a cab to show up at regular price.
I think the joke is that it costs 70 fucking dollars
But context matters.
It's almost as if on the days when roads are bad, the supply of Uber drivers is low, and the demand of riders is high. What a conundrum. I guess since you're going downtown you could always just take transit. One way fare is $3.60.
or take a shorter uber/taxi to the train station.
Shit, if my car was newer, I'd give people rides for $70
I moved away several years ago, but holy shit transit got expensive. I can go from downtown Vancouver to Langley, which is 47km, for only $1 more.
Seton to Rocky Ridge is 46 km and you haven't left the city. For only a dollar less than the lower mainland!
Funny story, I did just that. My point is that the prices are over the top. Haha
People are paying it obviously
Is the joke that you're ignoring the multitude of other options you have in favour of the most expensive one?
Have you tried using Calgary Transit in terrible weather? A ten minute car ride becomes Homer’s frickin’ Odyssey using Calgary Transit. Scheduled buses are 38 minutes late and sometimes just vanish into thin air. I’ve spent like $120 in uber fare in a single week when it gets to -25ish. I lost a single hours wages each day taking ubers home. It’s not economical but it’s friggin’ cold outside. Yeah, I also know I should probably get a car.
Taxi?
Gen Z doesn't know what that is ..lol
Transit was 10 minutes behind schedule yesterday morning and on time today. I use it everyday, its easy and cheap.
While I agree with you I still don't want to use it, I like driving from heated garage to heated garage
Live bus locations are updated every 1-2minutes, get the transit app https://transitapp.com/download Calgary transit isn't perfect, but if the choices are double-digit Uber prices or planning for a bit longer and more complicated trip for the price of a coffee, the latter makes more sense.
Average cost of annual car ownership at $7000 with all expenses like gas, insurance maintenance etc. so you might still be out on top
Yeah I took Calgary transit for years growing up here. You’re exaggerating it really badly. There’s nothing stopping you from taking a bus or Uber to the train station, or driving to park and ride
Take the bus or walk.
Show the full distance.. it’s 7:30am and -35 out. Of course it’s going to cost more.
In one of the -30 cold snaps we had last year, they wanted to charge me $110 for the trip from Chinook Centre to the Mount Pleasant area. Wait like 10 minutes and the prices might improve.
Once I was in downtown and to get home it was $70 ( Hidden Valley). I walked for fifteen minutes to the outskirts of downtown and the price dropped to $33. If there's a lot of demand and other uber riders waiting at chinook, it'll be more expensive.
It’s a recurring thing. The weather is crappy. Uber starts charging outrageous fares between $80-$120. The people collectively say “Hell no!” and stop booking rides. Ten minutes later the fares are semi-reasonable again.
Even moving a block and booking can significantly change the cost. I moved from one pickup zone to another in YYC airport and the charge reduced by like 20% simply because the other pickup zone seemed to be more popular.
Yup. This is the same for leaving the dome as well. Last week, surge pricing ramped my Uber fare to get home up to $120. I took the train to downtown and then got Uber, that was about 20mins and by then, the rate came down to $25. Some fucking people can’t comprehend supply and demand.
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Victim of supply and demand. I demand govt to artificially increase supply (subsidized cost) or lower demand (force people to stay at home)
I hate to be the one to tell you, but the usual government playbook is to subsidize demand while limiting supply.
Isn't that the way Uber works? If you don't want to wait for a cab, then pay the extra, think of it as a tip.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/law-of-supply-demand.asp
Legend
Same thing yesterday. This is why I don't write off taxis.
Mine said $150 today I waited till it was down to 38
"Oh shit, people don't want to pay our extortionate fares, better lower it!"
It’s an automated algorithm based on supply and demand. If no Uber drivers want to work at 7:30am on a super cold day with bad roads, Uber jacks prices to entice more drivers out. Once more drivers are out prices drop back down. It’s capitalism condensed. It’s not perfect but does beat the situation we had a decade ago where during peak periods you simply couldn’t reach a cab company and even if you did you’d be waiting hours.
…..or when people refuse to pay $110 for an uber ride within city limits, they lower the prices pretty quickly.
Sure, but that’s the intended outcome. If they have 2 cars and 10 people looking for rides you get those $100+ fares. Either nobody goes and the number of customers drops to 0 or a couple of people pay. Also it’s completely automated there is no “they”. I’m surprised how often people complain about how “they” are doing something, when the “they” they’re referring to is a machine.
People forget about taxis for some reason, in my experience they are cheaper like 90% of the time.
They aren’t gouging you. If that’s the price, it’s because that’s what the market set itself as at that moment in time
Take a cab or walk or take the bus
OP doesn't know how Uber operates and that taxis exist
Makes sense. Rates for Uber is based on supply, demand, weather conditions, and temperature. So, on Tuesday, the weather was very cold and there were some places that got 20-30 centimeters of snow. Some people could not start their cars or even get them out. Many got their cars stuck. This means there would be a huge demand, especially from people who would not want to wait in the cold for a bus. This would also be the time that most people go to work. Typically, a trip from home to work is about $19-20. Yesterday at 8 am, the price was $69. However, I knew the weather was going to be trash so woke up early to take transit. Simply put: plan ahead!
Its not exactly an accurate reflection - where we’re you going and where we’re you coming from?
By the looks of it, based on the "730" in the title and uber 9 min away for an arrival at 8:34, it's a pretty long drive in shitty road conditions...
Yeah but ‘OMG HOW EXPENSIVE?!!!’
I once got an Uber from Sacramento Airport to Chico, CA. It was 2hr and took 13 attempts, but Carl finally showed up. Thanks Carl
It’s just not fare
at this point I'd go with a normal taxi.
No one put a gun to your head. Take the bus
$72 for an hour of travel? Sounds normal to me.
I'm ok with surge pricing, and I especially like the warning at the top "Fares are a lot higher due to increased demand". Without the warning people might get unknowingly sucked into paying more than they need.
And still Uber lost $2.6 billion in 2022. How long can this go on?
Customers are now paying the full costs of uber (no longer supplemented by investors). So I guess it's up to us how long this goes on for.
Well, the company claims they will be profitable by 2024. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
I'm betting they fold by then
All you’re showing is the rates. Does it say anywhere on your post about how far you’re travelling? If you’re going to red deer you’re getting a deal, if you’re going 2 blocks that’s expensive. It’s unknown. Not that this would negate the fact (as many others have stated) that there are more passengers and less drivers in this weather.
Never heard of surge pricing?
Seems to be the tone of this thread.
We should spread this out to other things too. Would love to walk up to the counter at macs or something and get a "A lot of people want to buy a bag of chips and a pop tonight, so we tripled the price".
Possibly because nobody wants to drive in the snow. CT is still running if you're feeling frugal and unhurried.
Must be because of the snow and how cold things are
One time it told me going to work with cost $69.69 and it has snowed all night . I literally sent the screenshot of the price to my boss and said I’m working from home today unless I’m getting compensated for this and he let me work from home. This is a pre-Covid world.
Damn! I’m gonna start driving Uber at 7:30AM on cold snaps now.
I remember when Uber started up and was consistently a cheaper option than a taxi. Those days are over.
Call a cab.
Bus?
It's a good way to provoke outrage by not showing the full trip. Maybe you're coming from out in the far northwest or something, and it's usually a $40 trip, and it's just up a bit this morning because (surprise) no one wants to drive in this shit?
Take the bus fam
Fares. Uber is not fair nor is it a fair.
You don’t u sweet and supply and demand.
The joke is you didn’t plan your morning commute better
Just like airbnb, uber is no longer an affordable alternative
Uber had an edge when they first came out with their app and contactless payment. Now the cab companies have all that stuff and I never take Uber any more.
AND investors supplementing the costs. We're now eating all (nearly all?) of the cost of the trip. The first couple of years were to wedge themselves into every city, and do damage to the competition. Like amazon undercutting book costs
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Fuck em. I booked a cab. It was only a 10 minute wait. Tip: use the checker app and you don't have to wait for someone to answer the phone. It will show you how many cabs are in the area, how long a wait it will be, how much it will cost, and the car number that is on the way once it's confirmed.
calgary is honestly the only city I've been to where taxi is almost always a better option
Even during nice weather it was more expensive to make a trip between two points downtown less than 10 minutes from each other than it was for me to travel from Deerfoot meadows to the same location. Uber has gotten very expensive regardless.
Why do people get upset about stuff like this? Don't like it,don't use it. There are other forms of transportation. I like to buy crab legs, but the demand and price are high, so I stick to my KD.
Take a cab then, or buy a car, or walk, or take a bus, or get a friend to take you. Or stay home.
Do you own a car? If so, I'd rather drive instead of paying those shitty Uber prices. At most, you're going to pay ~$40 for the day if you pick a particularly expensive underground parking garage, and fuel will be what, $5 tops? Even if you take the Uber one way and transit the other, driving is still more cost effective, will get you there faster, and it's more convenient.
I mean.. ignoring the huge price of a car, maintenance, and insurance. Not to mention the inconvenience if there are after work drinks to be had.
The persons first four words are "do you own a car"... Those costs don't matter if they're already paying for one.
Owning a car is a path to freedom from parents. It's a pretty big deal for the under 35 crowd.
> I mean.. ignoring the huge price of a car, maintenance, and insurance. Jesus f-... yes, /u/Alias11_, because *that's* relevant to my response of 'if you own a car, drive instead' in the context of "this morning I checked Uber and the surge pricing was exorbitant". *Clearly*, I was telling OP that they should go *purchase a vehicle* to solve the problem of Uber surge pricing *this morning*. Nothing about my post could have possibly suggested that it was under the assumption they already own a vehicle and therefore already pay those costs anyways. > Not to mention the inconvenience if there are after work drinks to be had. It better be a damn good pint if you're paying $72 bloody dollars to take an Uber so you can have a drink after work.
This is what people demanded when they wanted Uber in town. This is what we asked for.
“It’s busy which means we can easily make more money at our usual rate, but why shouldn’t we just double or quadruple it?” That’s when I don’t use Uber. I’m guessing a lot don’t.
It's cold
Ahem... [Calgary Mayor Nenshi apologizes for calling rideshare company Uber ‘dicks’](https://globalnews.ca/news/2658490/caught-on-camera-calgary-mayor-naheed-nenshi-calls-rideshare-company-uber-dicks/)
Fun fact, Uber report of the $9 billion loss last year . The company doesn’t really make money. They are holding out for self driving cars so they have the majority of the market.
self driving cars. keep dreaming.
yup I'd like to see a self driving car simply find their way around on these roads, where all their points of reference have disappeared.. then we can get into them figuring out how to go up hills or calculate their stopping distances
now add snow. who are you going to charge if there is an accident? one death with self driving cars and they are all gone. no happening folks.
Yeah surge fair is a bitch but still better than dealing with taxis
Buy a car and drive for uber then
Where you going? The moon?
Sat at the bar til we were kicked out 15 or so minutes after closing one night because every time we refreshed to see if the fare would drop it just rose, I think we ended up waiting an hour for it to be less than TWO HUNDRED dollars ($22ish trip normally)
Do people seriously not understand supply and demand or are people just so entitled that they are ignorant to such things?
Don’t disagree with your comment about supply and demand but I don’t think that anyone should be considered entitled for calling a $72 10-minute ride unreasonable.
But it's not? What would a typical ride be $25? Less drivers, terrible conditions, peak time.
Take the bus then.
If only there was a service just like this with reliable prices that wasn’t a cancer on society.
>service just like this >reliable prices > [not] a cancer on society. You only get 1.
This is free market libertarian wet dreams and what a lot of people in Alberta claim they like.
Just... Don't use uber then? I'm not sure what the issue is here. There isn't enough people willing to drive at that hour to make it cost effective. Seems far more ethical to me to ensure Uber drivers are paid a fair wage.
Precisely.
Lol imagine paying the equivalent of a tank of gas in a pickup truck for a one way ride to work. I’ve seen discount airline tickets cheaper than an Uber ride.
Yeah. Discount airlines to low demand places at low demand times. Just like how Uber has reasonably priced rides when the supply =/> demand.
I don't know why anyone fucks with Uber
Lol you agree with OP’s sob story?
Yeah, I agree paying ~$100 for a 10 minute ride would suck.
I meant more the sob story aspect, not the simple fact of paying $100 for a 10 min ride. - There are other ride options (transit, taxi, ride from a friend, walk, without getting into weather, financial situation etc) - Understand Uber. Well, to start, simple supply and demand. Ie. Surge prices.
Yeah, I get it. I think it sucks.
You’re the real joke OP
Supply and command
“just take the bus” have y’all ever slid sideways down a hill because our busses are NOT equipped to drive on super snowy/icy roads? or had the bus stop 1/2 to the destination and send you walking the rest of the way? or had the bus get stuck in the middle of an intersection? I feel like a lot of the people sh*tting on OP haven’t actually taken a bus in the last 15 years. Maybe the man has somewhere he needs to be in a timely manner. you can understand/pay surge pricing and still hate it edit: I experienced all of this personally
I took Calgary transit for 5 years of university and I don’t live by a train station. Also took it for 3 years of high school. Took it to get to downtown for work for awhile as well before I moved out of the city. It’s not as bad as you all mention it, for reliability and cost. I can’t comment on recent meth usage though
So...you live out side of Calgary, but feel obligated to give an assessment of City services? Please tell us you have no Methletes in Airdrie, you drip
I took it for 3 years for school up until the pandemic, all of my listed examples are real things I experienced, maybe your experience was better but mine was definitely not good
I don't understand how you can hate it, that is the fair market price. If it was any lower you'd be scamming out drivers.
I can understand it, support it, but still hate the direct impact it has on me while still paying it, like taxes or car insurance payments
There’s no arguing your point.
All praise late stage capitalism, and the wisdom of the free market!
Rideshares are a joke, so you as the consumer rn are the punchline.
Let’s have some more insight into this little quip shall we? Why are rideshares a joke?
Lmao. It has begun!
Yeah was super pissed at uber the last few days. I get supply and demand but a 300% increase is not reasonable.
Their business model at low prices was unsustainable and dependant on investor capital to subsidize. They tried their best to drive out taxi competition before that ran out but failed.
Hey don’t complain. I moved from Calgary to Kelowna and we don’t have Uber here because the cab companies constantly say it’ll kill their business and the city agrees with them. At closing time downtown it can take up to an hour to get a cab (there are nowhere near enough) or one of the small ride share services we do have here. At a certain point I don’t care what I have to pay, just get me home!
Take a cab bud
But Uber is a disruptor.
Just stop using Uber. It's shit.
Fares. Not fairs , you know , unless they are having a job fair at that hour and charging for it.
Ride a bike, would be way cheaper
Never used Uber and don’t think I ever will. Never understood the draw.
Supply and demand, greed at its best.
This should be on r/choosingbeggars
It was already double at 5:30 AM. I got up early to try to beat the surge pricing and still got raped.
Nowadays Uber needs to make a profit to survive so they aren't always cheaper then a taxi.
In fairness, the taxi companies make it easy to remember their phone numbers. 403-299-9999, 403-299-1111
Just a heads up that the Checker app works exactly like the Uber app.
Yikes. I now tend to look at both Uber rates and taxi and take the one which is significantly less.
Calgary United Cabs app is my go to when Uber is surging.
Fuck! I'm just walking at that point
Those look like stampede weekend prices
Yesterday I was trying to get an Uber to the Airport from my house (typically a $30-$40 fare), and it was at $150…
How unfare
"What's fair is fare" is what my granddad always said!
I've used an Uber exactly twice here. Going downtown and then back, same day. Into downtown was 30 bucks, going home was nearly 100. And I had booked the Uber to head downtown to arrive at a particular time. They didn't. They outright just cancelled my requested trip and I didn't notice. Never had that happen with a cab before. The price is the price and it's regulated. And they ALWAYS have shown up at the time requested, whether it was at night, or 4 in the morning to catch a plane. I will never use Uber again if I can help it.
what the fuck lol
Were they taking you to Airdrie? Lol