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Old 06-21-2017, 09:59 PM
EA
 
Location: Las Vegas
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EA,

Have you ever thought about/tried dealer school? Construction is always hit or miss, boom or bust.

I would go to bar-tending school first. But both of those things are a hustle. Pretty much everything I want to do is a hustle. Photojournalism, writing, construction and welding. You have to hustle in all of those fields. So I don't expect to stop having to hustle any time soon. I was merely pointing out that in Vegas everything seems to be a hustle more so than any other place I have lived.
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Old 06-22-2017, 08:45 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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there are surges when there aren't enough drivers in an area, that causes the price to go up... its supply and demand
So that's why.
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Old 06-22-2017, 09:32 AM
 
Location: City of North Las Vegas, NV
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Interesting quote from an online conversation for Uber.

Asked why the Uber user should drop them:

"Because the whole company is a scam, a giant Ponzi scheme where the late-stage investment has come from Russian & Saudi oligarchs effectively paying out the founders & angels. What's left is a heavily funded shell that's really just a brand awareness campaign to maintain presence until software replaces paid humans. They have pushed driver pay so low that these dummies are sleeping in their cars and pissing in bottles. I see it every day on my walking commute.. and I also see the familiar "U" in the window of every ***hole stopping in the middle of an intersection (and/or crosswalks) impeding the flow to pick up or drop off.

We can also include in this discussion about how their partnership with Santander is helping fuel a nasty subprime auto finance bubble and creating indentured servitude locking drivers into lease contracts on overpriced Priuses that only get more expensive as driver pay is reduced.

I'm not going to support a business that profits from stealing economic mobility from the people they purport to benefit."


I take it that some markets are worse for Uber drivers while others are not.
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Old 06-22-2017, 10:29 AM
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Location: Las Vegas
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Interesting quote from an online conversation for Uber.

Asked why the Uber user should drop them:

"Because the whole company is a scam, a giant Ponzi scheme

You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Old 06-22-2017, 12:29 PM
 
Location: City of North Las Vegas, NV
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You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
First, it was a quote in this case and not me that used it and you keep wanting to not use it. It is members in the financial circles that use it but you don't have to agree with anything that is said and get all tripped up about it.
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Old 06-22-2017, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Lone Mountain Las Vegas NV
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First, it was a quote in this case and not me that used it and you keep wanting to not use it. It is members in the financial circles that use it but you don't have to agree with anything that is said and get all tripped up about it.
Again there is a case that Uber has a financial problem. But they are much like a casino...operationally profitable. So the enterprise will survive even if the corporation crashes.

And I would still opine that the taxi industry is where you are going to see trouble and consolidation...maybe into a Uber or Lyft.
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Old 06-22-2017, 06:42 PM
 
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Uber just fired their founding CEO (a world class jerk-off if there ever was one...) so I suspect there will be some swift and meaningful changes at this nasty little company. I use Lyft personally.

Ridesharing is here to stay though. I drove taxi for awhile in NYC and it was much the same brouhaha. The taxi garages were mad the drivers were fleeing to lease Uber cars instead of medallion cabs. The drivers were upset because they weren't making as much in a shift because Uber/Lyft were stealing market share. It's a new normal and everybody just has to deal with it.
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Old 06-22-2017, 10:25 PM
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Location: Las Vegas
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The cab companies are going to be screwed holding all those extremely expensive medallions.
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Old 06-23-2017, 04:43 AM
 
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I believe he might have been referring to my post. NYC medallions are indeed way overpriced, just as almost everything there is.
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Old 06-23-2017, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Credible source?

It seems hard to fathom that a respected person/group would insinuate Uber is explicitly after people's retirement fund money. Would love to read a solid, published article that substantiates this stuff.

Another data point on Uber for those wondering: Although I haven't yet signed up for Uber, a group of friends was in town recently from Chicago so I had my first couple rides with Uber (using their accounts.) Both times the driver showed up within three minutes of them requesting from the app. Two of the most pleasant rides I've ever had, better than ANY experience I've had in many years of taking cabs. Hundreds of cab rides in Chicago alone - may have even hit 1,000 there.
I haven't really used cabs often, but I was in Baltimore recently and took Lyft to and from the airport and it couldn't have been a more pleasant experience.
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