Uber

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I am abroad at the moment and using uber for the first time to get around and it just occurred to me that if ubers are very match cheaper how can mini cab offices keep going because I'm pretty sure someone would want to pay cheaper price for their journey using uber because you get me from the airport to home is 53 pounds but with an uber it would probably be about 20 pounds which quite frankly I would prefer to do because it won't cost as much but the only thing stopping me from using uber before was you have to give your card details to the company but I found out that it's quite safe and you can get an uber faster than a mini cab because sometimes when I have phoned my local mini cab office to get her cab to go somewhere they sometimes say we have no cabs available for about 20 minutes but the only thing I don't like with an uber is it if you don't take the journey they will still charge you and able to charge you a cancellation fee if you cancel the uber

I will be landing at Heathrow airport at 5:00 a.m. and where I am at the moment is in the middle of the night so maybe that is why the price doesn't show up as being any cheaper than a cab because it's sinking that I need it's now and it's gauging the price as an evening journey and evening journeys cost more than daytime journeys I don't know so if when I get to Heathrow at 5am and check the price at 5am it will then be cheaper and it won't be 55 pounds

You're posting the same thing as before again

I know but there were too many messages to scroll through to find the answer so I thought it was quicker and easier to just ask again

Right

Here’s your answer. Uber use dynamic pricing. 7pm trips have a different cost to 5am ones.

5am today will cost different than 5am tomorrow.

It depends on driver availability, traffic, demand. You clearly don’t like not knowing the price, so just book a cab. That way you’ll know in advance.

The Uber final cost you won’t find out until that very morning.

I've never found Uber substantially cheaper to get to Heathrow from where I live than a regular minicab and I like to give the minicab my business because they have been great over the 40 or so years I've used them

Ok i lamdrd at heathrow
I looked on mt app and put iny home address and selected uber x. The proce was £77. My local mini cab would charhe £58. I thought ubers were cheaper so i emdef up using the ttaun

If my mini cab is 58 then I thought the uber would be about 30 which I was prepared to pay but there's no way I'm paying 58 or 77 can somebody explain why it was going to charge me so much more then the mini cab

its already been explained through out the thread, it’s because of the dynamic pricing.

I won't be using uber much in the UK because I've checked various journeys and they come up more with an uber in with my local medicap for instance an uber from my house is £9 from my local mini cab office it's five pounds so in all honesty I think uber is okay for using a board but that's all

Uber have a surge charge, so at busy times they inflate the price. My adult DC sometimes use them, but I use the local cab firms.

Aa pp have repeatedly said the cost is down to the time of day , cars available and traffic conditions .
I like using them ( though I was sceptical until a few years ago) because you can watch them coming so don't have to stand outside in the cold / rain / dark / danger.
It's easy to share your journey with someone so they can see if you got home / destination ok.
It's easy to add pick up / drop off to your journey.

To be honest ive gone off uber because of dynamic pricing. When i was abroad and needed to get to the airport the cost was 20 dollars against 26 dollars for a regular taxi so i took the uber. In the uk the uber costs more for airport runs against mini cab prices soq im going to use mi i cabs not uber for airports. This is my first experience with uber in uk and i dont like it

I love Uber.

Efficient and fast.

And costly43

It might be fast and efficient but you pay more. If i pre book my cheaper mini can i tell them what time to come and they come at the specified time and the journey is cheaper. I would oy use uber in an emergency. Once i had an appointment. I waited for the bus which didn't turn up
I called my local mi i cab office and they said we have nothing for 20 mi utes. That is when i would use an uber and i would have no choice but pay more for the ride but i would never chose uber as a first option

I think people must be absolutely mad to pay over the odds for an uber just because they're fasting efficient and I've just done five uber searches for journeys from my house and they all come up more than what my mini cab office would charge so as I said I would use them in an absolute diary emergency but I would never never use them as a regular means of getting from one place to another

Well of course it's entirely up to you if you use them or not but I am happy to pay a few pounds more for the speed they can get to me, I can stay inside and track them arriving, I can share my journey and arrange drop offs and pickups .

I have no problem paying a bit more for the extras.

I cam afford to pay extra but wouldnt on principle. I think uk ubers are a con and i. Not paying their prives just so they can lime their pockets. If uners im other cpunyroes are much cheaper tham a regular taxi then why cant ubers in the uk follow suit. If there was a petition to get uk uber prices down then im all for it

The other thing I don't like which nobody has mentioned is if you book an uber and don't make the journey you still get charged to fee for missing the uber if you book a mini cab don't take the cab they just drive off they don't charge you a fee for missing the mini cab so I think ubers are absolute crap

Sometimes, they are cheaper, though. just depends its the nature of dynamic pricing. No need for a petition, just use whatever works for you, in this case it seems to be minicabs

Yes but what I don't understand is when I use uber's abroad and I used ubers to the first time abort this year and took two airport journeys with an uber and they were far cheaper than a regular taxi so I don't understand why the ubers in this country cannot do the same

Why shouldn't they be able to get compensation if you cancel with short notice or not turn up at all.
If you were promised £20 and used your time money and fuel to get to the agreed location then the other person didn't show surely you'd be pissed off snd want some recompense.

I guess what I'm saying is when I found out how match cheaper it was in another country to use an uber to get myself to and from an airport I thought it would be cheaper to get two and from an airport in the UK and because I had never had any experience of how ubers work in the UK I just thought it would be the same but I was very let down and very disappointed when I discovered at the prices were more expensive than a mini cab