What's your Uber Passenger rating?

[flyingfan]

4.60, with about three trips in Australia and about half a dozen in the USA/Canada. Hope that's not too low to put off drivers - I consider myself well-controlled and don't know if I'm meant to treat drivers like my new best buddy to crack a 5.

 

[blackcat20]

4.60, with about three trips in Australia and about half a dozen in the USA/Canada. Hope that's not too low to put off drivers - I consider myself well-controlled and don't know if I'm meant to treat drivers like my new best buddy to crack a 5.

That's what frustrates me. If I chat to the driver my rating goes up but if I chat quietly to my husband my rating goes down.

 

[Pushka]

I'm on 5 from 10 trips. Usually solo so I probably chat with driver. I've always given 5 back and will continue to do so until I know I can't. I don't tend to chat so much with regular taxis but I'm not unfriendly. I just don't initiate.

 

[cambriamarsh]

Zero I am paying so very offensive to rate me, I will go Taxis until this stops.

Paying? I thought it was ride sharing not a quasi-taxi business. The taxis service often isn't great but there's a lot to be said for a level playing field. All uber is doing longer term is reducing and stripping the tax base that provides first world benefits.

My view is that anyone providing taxi services should be subject to the same insurance and rego rules. Maybe not a popular view but I think I'm taking the wider view rather than narrow short term self interest.

 

[odysseus]

I am at 4.65 and all of the 'damage' occurred from my last trip to the US.

You weren't tipping?

 

[kpc]

You weren't tipping?

The tipping is done when you give feedback....so again it is wise to let the driver rate you first

 

[Pleb Status]

You weren't tipping?

You are correct and that is why I assume I took a lot of damage (my US trip was before tipping became part of the app).

 

[coles525]

Just checked: 4.86

 

[Bundy Bear]

4.74
Probably from about 500 rides.

 

[NoName]

Had an interesting conversation with a driver last night about passenger ratings. He was saying that a lot of ex-taxi drivers have a tendency to give low ratings to people who take short trips as a means of identifying these people prior to accepting a job. The more short trips you take the more likely you are to be given a lower rating which will obviously lower your overall rating. So then when your rating flashes up on the screen when the job comes through the driver will use that to judge the likelihood of the job being a short one.

As a driver I have never heard of this but then I only drive one day a week and don't participate on any of the uber forums. Personally I just accept everything.

 

[Happy Dude]

Paying? I thought it was ride sharing not a quasi-taxi business. The taxis service often isn't great but there's a lot to be said for a level playing field. All uber is doing longer term is reducing and stripping the tax base that provides first world benefits.

My view is that anyone providing taxi services should be subject to the same insurance and rego rules. Maybe not a popular view but I think I'm taking the wider view rather than narrow short term self interest.

If one were to select friends on the basis of not "reducing and stripping the tax base that provides first world benefits", then one might be pretty lonely. I reckon every single person that you know or company that you can or can't name does just that, including those taxi industry.

If you're referring to off-shoring earnings to tax havens, then you are absolutely correct. But there is a level playing field for the many companies choosing to participate, including Uber. I doubt you'd find too many arguments against closing that loophole.

My opinion is probably more popular than yours: If the taxi industry was too short-sighted or arrogant to respond to the disruptive technology, then that's it's own fault.

I have a rating of 5.0 from 10 rides - all between my house and CBR. Never had anything other than a positive experience. It's been win-win for me.

 

[cambriamarsh]

If one were to select friends on the basis of not "reducing and stripping the tax base that provides first world benefits", then one might be pretty lonely. I reckon every single person that you know or company that you can or can't name does just that, including those taxi industry.

If you're referring to off-shoring earnings to tax havens, then you are absolutely correct. But there is a level playing field for the many companies choosing to participate, including Uber. I doubt you'd find too many arguments against closing that loophole.

My opinion is probably more popular than yours: If the taxi industry was too short-sighted or arrogant to respond to the disruptive technology, then that's it's own fault.

I have a rating of 5.0 from 10 rides - all between my house and CBR. Never had anything other than a positive experience. It's been win-win for me.

Interesting point of view. One is tax planning around the margins, the other is the complete shifting of the tax base to a tax haven.

It's not really a level playing field tho is it when one participant is in one tax jurisdiction and the other is in a completely different one, if indeed any.

Your point about the taxi industry's issues is understood and they need to improve. But that doesn't justify stripping the whole base. And btw the same issue probably applies to Airbnb, Amazon and Apple (and that is just a few As).

Next stop for tax - land. That can't move.

 

[Tazza_0712]

4.78 from 21 trips.

Not exactly sure of what I did to warrant anything less than a 5

 

[harvyk]

4.94, like others the damage from a perfect 5 came from a ride in the US. Not sure which one, but I suspect it had to do with tipping.

 

[serfty]

I didn't think you got a rating until after 10 or so trips. I can't find mine after three trips where they say it will eventually appear.

Where do you look?

It was 10 months ago; the app may have changed.

 

[Lemon_Party]

4.70 - must have had the occasional bad score I guess...

 

[N860CR]

4.70 and to be honest I couldn't care less. If a driver wants my business, they get it. If they don't, someone else will. It's been a long time since I've had trouble getting "accepted" by an Uber. I find it to be an odd business model where you criticize your customers the way Uber does.

 

[JohnK]

I have not yet used Uber. I think I will definitely not use Uber now....

 

[Pushka]

4.70 and to be honest I couldn't care less. If a driver wants my business, they get it. If they don't, someone else will. It's been a long time since I've had trouble getting "accepted" by an Uber. I find it to be an odd business model where you criticize your customers the way Uber does.

I guess it's about safety for the driver but I take your point.

 

[perthjay85]

I guess it's about safety for the driver but I take your point.

I remember chatting to a driver last year and they said it's unlikely that Uber will ban arrogant or mildly aggressive passengers because they don't want to lose business.
He said his wife drives and uses the rating system when she is working nights as a way to protect herself against possible threats.

I think it is a great idea.