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Re:Volvo acquires Luxe by __abc on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:12PM (#15202610)
What's Volvo's motivation here? The entire Luxe business model was wildly unprofitable and the UX as a consumer (egregious weight times at both drop off and pick up) was awful.
Re:Volvo acquires Luxe by moonka on Friday September 08, 2017 @02:22PM (#15202725)
I used it a few times in Seattle under a promo, and it was so painful. Getting the timing down so the valet wasn't waiting out in the rain for awhile waiting for me was difficult, and than it always took 15-20 minutes longer for them to get my car back to me than what was shown in the app. I found myself better off just using Lyft when I'm worried about parking.
Re:Volvo acquires Luxe by jamesjamesm on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:12PM (#15203546)
Probably an acquihire to bolster their product/engineering team with some startup blood. Luxe will likely get shuttered.
Re:Volvo acquires Luxe by ugh123 on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:22PM (#15203211)
We had a dedicated Luxe team at my workplace for valet services and it was pretty sweet until they discontinued, likely due to cost. I thought the app and service was pretty good.
Re:Volvo acquires Luxe by dfischer on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:32AM (#15205701)
It was less awful than driving around soma for 2 hours trying to find a spot.