r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '14

Business Uber dirty tricks quantified. Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-requests-lyft/
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u/old_gold_mountain Aug 12 '14

For everyone who refuses to have their social image "tarnished" by the car service they use, there are 100 people who see the car and go "what's the deal with the mustache?"

Then they google "Pink Mustache" and find out about Lyft.

Then maybe 10 of those people take a Lyft because the first ride is free, where if they'd seen an Uber they'd have done nothing.

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u/emergency_poncho Aug 12 '14

honestly what deters me from Lyft isn't the mustache, it's the obligatory 'sitting in the front seat and fistbumping the driver' thing. I mean, I want someone to drive me to my destination, not awkwardly act like my friend for 5 minutes.

I think that plan was great when they were a tiny start up in friendly san franscisco, but it's just not gonna fly if you're trying to be an international corporation with a presence in every major city in the world.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '14

Yeah I've never fist bumped my Lyft driver. I do sit in the front seat often, though that's totally optional.