She Reported Being Assaulted by Her Uber Driver. He Was Allowed Back on the Road

Re:She Reported Being Assaulted by Her Uber Driver. He Was A... by allana on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:15PM (#20720937)

Note: The south end of the bridge the Uber driver sped across is the most ticketed intersection in Seattle.

I had a very similar experience on OfferUp, where a person threatened to kill me via OfferUp Messages after I wouldn't meet him in the middle of a protest (he had driven into the protest, right past the starbucks where I was waiting for him).

OfferUp ignored my report in app, emails and calls, this user has kept accreting more reviews since.

Craigslist has been far safer for me, OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace seem to have peeled off the hot headed 15 to 30 year old user demographic, leaving 40+yo buyers that have been straightforward to deal with.

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Re:She Reported Being Assaulted by Her Uber Driver. He Was A... by xenihn on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:20PM (#20720957)

I expected Craigslist to be made irrelevant by FB Marketplace and apps like OfferUp, but for me, it's still the most reliable for buying and selling. I don't understand it at all.

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Re:She Reported Being Assaulted by Her Uber Driver. He Was A... by allana on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:24PM (#20720977)

Yeah, OfferUp and Facebook Marketplace have taken many of the flaky people off Craigslist, improving CL's reliability.

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