Glad you had a good experience with them, but I’ve not heard a lot that’s positive.
Here in Albuquerque someone that was an Uber drive had the outside mirror broken off his car door and the same passenger puked all over the back seat. He gets nothing for the damage unless he takes the passenger to court. For what, a $40 fare?
In Denver, I read that a concert goer took an Uber car to a concert at Red Rocks and found out upon arrival that it was over $200! Uber said when there’s a big event on and vehicles are in short supply, there’s a multiplication factor that gets entered into the cost. The passenger said they knew nothing about it.
Reviews on Yelp for the Denver area are pretty bad. http://www.yelp.com/biz/uber-denver-3
“In Denver, I read that a concert goer took an Uber car to a concert at Red Rocks and found out upon arrival that it was over $200! Uber said when there’s a big event on and vehicles are in short supply, there’s a multiplication factor that gets entered into the cost. The passenger said they knew nothing about it.”
You do have to play by the rules. I took a cab once in NYC because they were at 4x, but only because I bothered reading the terms. The price you pay is what they tell you...they could not last very long if they were multiplying promised prices. It really isn’t the driver’s fault that Colorado legalized weed.
That Denver story is not true. You know before you get in the car how much it is.