<story><title>Uber charges more if you have credits in your account</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>o999</author><text>I like how people in comments are keen to change the world, but I - more realisticly - only focus on gaming the system so I can actually save myself couple bucks right away.&lt;p&gt;I set pick up and destination, exit the app, open another rides app, wait few minutes for uber to notify me that the price went down.&lt;p&gt;I only give it initials (instead of full name) and phone number, not even my gender, I rarely rate drivers positively, if it is not a negative experience, I skip reviewing, so they don&amp;#x27;t know I &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; the service.&lt;p&gt;When it takes more than a minute to find a ride, I cancel the ride and choose the &amp;quot;others&amp;quot; option, as this is the de-facto the option for &amp;quot;I will just take a cab&amp;quot;, so I get inserted on the &amp;quot;churn risk&amp;quot; list.&lt;p&gt;I use a virtual card that I some time leave empty so payment fail after the ride, and on the next ride I readjust my virtual card limit on the next ride and pay the last bill so I am added on the &amp;quot;poor and miserable riders&amp;quot; list.&lt;p&gt;I am well protected</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blendergeek</author><text>&amp;gt; I like how people in comments are keen to change the world, but I - more realisticly - only focus on gaming the system so I can actually save myself couple bucks right away.&lt;p&gt;This type of attitude sometimes makes the world a worse place. If everyone has this attitude, the system can break down.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I rarely rate drivers positively&lt;p&gt;Drivers live or die by their rating. Refusing to give good reviews harms the drivers who are already barely scraping by. This is a very good example of how you can cause real world harm with by trying to game the system for yourself.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber charges more if you have credits in your account</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>o999</author><text>I like how people in comments are keen to change the world, but I - more realisticly - only focus on gaming the system so I can actually save myself couple bucks right away.&lt;p&gt;I set pick up and destination, exit the app, open another rides app, wait few minutes for uber to notify me that the price went down.&lt;p&gt;I only give it initials (instead of full name) and phone number, not even my gender, I rarely rate drivers positively, if it is not a negative experience, I skip reviewing, so they don&amp;#x27;t know I &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; the service.&lt;p&gt;When it takes more than a minute to find a ride, I cancel the ride and choose the &amp;quot;others&amp;quot; option, as this is the de-facto the option for &amp;quot;I will just take a cab&amp;quot;, so I get inserted on the &amp;quot;churn risk&amp;quot; list.&lt;p&gt;I use a virtual card that I some time leave empty so payment fail after the ride, and on the next ride I readjust my virtual card limit on the next ride and pay the last bill so I am added on the &amp;quot;poor and miserable riders&amp;quot; list.&lt;p&gt;I am well protected</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magic_hamster</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if this saves you money, but if it is, you are certainly working pretty hard for it.</text></comment>