Uber accused of Price Surging customers when phone battery is low
(www.zerohedge.com)
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This is hilarious. I always open uber & lyft and go with whoever is cheaper.
Uber denied it, and the evidence is shitty.
The 12% phone might have gone through slightly after and gotten a slightly higher price because it was higher demand thanks to someone else going 1st.
Yea this sounds like utter bullshit. Their "study" consists of a single test with two phones and they drove up demand by requesting the same route twice.
Also, less than 6% is hardly a "significant" difference.
Would that happen? That sounds like a bug.
From Uber's response:
They requested the first ride which means demand went up and available drivers went down, which in turn affected the price of the second ride.
Oh for some reason I was assuming they cancelled the first one.
According to their article they did one test. That's it. There's nothing scientific about what they did. They were just fucking around for 5 minutes and thought that was good enough for a ragebait article.