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Uber: We Don't Have to Pay Drivers Based on Rider Fares

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the always-read-the-fine-print dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Uber is fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit that says it secretly over charges riders and under pays drivers. In its defense, the ride-hailing service claims that nobody is being defrauded in its "upfront" rider fare pricing model.

The fares charged to riders don't have to match up with the fares paid to drivers, Uber said, because that's what a driver's "agreement" allows.

"Plaintiff's allegations are premised on the notion that, once Uber implemented Upfront Pricing for riders, it was required under the terms of the Agreement to change how the Fare was calculated for Drivers," Uber said (PDF) in a recent court filing seeking to have the class-action tossed. "This conclusion rests on a misinterpretation of the Agreement."

The suit claims that, when a rider uses Uber's app to hail a ride, the fare the app immediately shows the passenger is based on a slower and longer route compared to the one displayed to the driver. The rider pays the higher fee, and the driver's commission is paid from the cheaper, faster route, according to the lawsuit.

Uber claims the disparity between rider and driver fares "was hardly a secret."

"Drivers," Uber told a federal judge, "could have simply asked a User how much he or she paid for the trip to learn of any discrepancy."

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/uber-driver-pay-plan-puts-a-significant-risk-on-ride-hailing-service/

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by frojack on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:42PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:42PM (#570736) Journal

    you need to see /Office Space//quote.

    Yeah.

    No. We don't have to base real life on movies. Time to get out of your basement. Your mom want's to sell the house.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:54PM (#570743)

    You seem not to understand the function of parody.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:39PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:39PM (#570769) Homepage
    Awww, how cute, the frojack attempts insults. Unfortunetely, it dribbles all over itself while so doing.

    Nothing I previously posted can, by anyone with a brain, be interpreted as saying we should base real life on movies. I'm concluding therefore, from this and other posts you make, that your brain coefficient is severely, perhaps terminally, lacking.

    Anyway, must rush, the sauna in my downtown penthouse apartment (and I say "my", as I own it outright unburdoned with any debt) has just reached a good temperature for some steam. You're not invited, I fear you'd bring a stench.
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