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skippy41
 Post subject: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 2:09 am 
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Edinburgh airport to Murryfield for the rugby, £100
Normal fare around £16

https://www.facebook.com/edinburghtaxiacademy/?fref=nf
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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:51 am 
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skippy41 wrote:
Edinburgh airport to Murryfield for the rugby, £100
Normal fare around £16

https://www.facebook.com/edinburghtaxiacademy/?fref=nf



It's called purging, they've got form for it. Round here on a Sunday the price from Nottingham to Mansfield is £22, at peak times it rises to £41.
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grandad
 Post subject: Re: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:02 am 
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Nidge2 wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Edinburgh airport to Murryfield for the rugby, £100
Normal fare around £16

https://www.facebook.com/edinburghtaxiacademy/?fref=nf



It's called purging, they've got form for it. Round here on a Sunday the price from Nottingham to Mansfield is £22, at peak times it rises to £41.

You mean Surging or as they like to call it "dynamic pricing."

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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:53 am 
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grandad wrote:
Nidge2 wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Edinburgh airport to Murryfield for the rugby, £100
Normal fare around £16

https://www.facebook.com/edinburghtaxiacademy/?fref=nf



It's called purging, they've got form for it. Round here on a Sunday the price from Nottingham to Mansfield is £22, at peak times it rises to £41.

You mean Surging or as they like to call it "dynamic pricing."


Yeah that's it. I'd only just woke up :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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captain cab
 Post subject: Re: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:03 am 
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skippy41 wrote:
Edinburgh airport to Murryfield for the rugby, £100
Normal fare around £16

https://www.facebook.com/edinburghtaxiacademy/?fref=nf



good.

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skippy41
 Post subject: Re: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:36 pm 
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I thought all Edinburgh PH had a meter fitted, and they where set slightly below the black cab rates
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Nidge2
 Post subject: Re: Uber at it again
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:01 pm 
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I thought all Edinburgh PH had a meter fitted, and they where set slightly below the black cab rates



Uber obviously don't.
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