Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It

Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by kodablah on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:10AM (#16707182)

> It's a weird development and I wonder what the long term effects of this attitude will be.

Optimistically, middlemen or automated tools that ease the pain of changing in hard-to-enter markets. In easier-to-enter markets, the emergence of companies respecting simple pricing (we've already seen some of this). Simplicity will win in the long run, again, unless it's a market that can keep competitors out.

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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by tom_mellior on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:46AM (#16707471)

> Optimistically, middlemen or automated tools that ease the pain of changing in hard-to-enter markets.

Not sure what it's like outside of the EU, but what made it easy and attractive to swich mobile operators here were neither "middlemen or automated tools". It was regulation. Namely, the EU directive that forced mobile operators to allow you to take your phone number with you when switching to another operator. Before this you had to get a new phone number when you switched operators, which was a huge disincentive.

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Re:Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avo... by kodablah on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:49AM (#16708008)

It's like that outside the EU too (e.g. in the US).

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