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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by hkmurakami on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:12AM (#13771890)
Personally, being pressured to top is bad UX. I feel bad when presented with the prompt via square et al.

I'd much rather have the price baked in like other countries.

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by eropple on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:29AM (#13771980)
I would rather have it baked in, too. But since it's not, and tipping is de facto part of the compensation for service jobs, the fact that you feel bad when you're presented with the tip prompt and choose not to leave one is not really a bad thing.
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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by smileysteve on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:11AM (#13772166)
> being pressured to top is bad UX

You're not the customer of Square. It's great UX if your goal is to get more people tipping.

(I've said this before at food trucks)

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by hkmurakami on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:39AM (#13772321)
Totally valid point.

But I changed from Chevron to Shell because of their bad UX for Safeway rewards integration, and I've noticed that Philz never asks me to tip on their Point of Sale system while places like Signtglass do. And my noticing will likely have affected by purchasing behavior.

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