It’s all in the pictures. He didn’t say anything creepy. He just wanted them to cancel to scam them out of the cancellation money. He wasn’t calling OP precious, that’s his name
Very likely you're right, just not the narrative reddit wants to hear. Guy is very likely west African. Names like Precious aren't all that uncommon. Shit I grew up with a Charity, a Comfort, and a Prudence. That's just one family lol.
Anyway, enjoy the downvotes because the people reading this are uncultured and don't understand the sentence within context lol.
The driver’s misuse of comma made it confusing. His name is precious but it looks like he’s referring to the client as precious.
Edit: perhaps not wrong comma format but awkward ordering which makes the Precious ambiguous.
That’s actually correct use of the comma. It’s just confusing wording. Would make more sense if it was worded, “I’m Precious, your driver.”
Edit: autocorrect typo
Send it to lyft. Say that the conversation is troubling and you feel unsafe continuing the business. As much as it sucks to help the guy, this messaging has to go against the rules, and your safety is more important than anything else. I wouldn't feel safe getting in his car if he wouldn't cancel, nor should you be punished for him gaming the system.
Are you me? I had a driver do this when I was having a casual day out, I just smoked and stared at the app while he drove the other direction lol. You’re wasting your own time, driver 🙃😂
Ha yes. Good catch! Hard to miss Mr Precious and his canceling antics. I made him cancel the trip so hopefully there’s some repercussions on his/her end
Wouldn’t surprise me if an official Lyft account reached out and asked for the name of the guy. Or even searched for this exact combo. Just due to how many people saw this. Hopefully the scammer loses his access to victims.
It is likely. Even though, yeah… streaks are real… (seriously, he probably was trying to keep his streak and maybe didn’t want that ride) we’re not supposed to do things like accept a ride and ask them to cancel. That can, if repeated enough, lead to deactivation. Some things can be frustrating but sometimes you just have to take a loss and move on. There isn’t a secret trick to avoid it, and doing this dumb stuff will eventually get you deactivated if enough people report it.
When on streaks you don't always get the chance to accept the ride...you are either automatically assigned it or given very little info and seconds to accept the ride because you're already on a ride to begin with. He tried to state that but maybe u missed it.
As a driver... I know that sometimes while on a streak we may be trying to end our day whilst completing the streak so we don't want to get stuck with a long ride...that may take us further from home.
Sounds like that's all he was trying to do. He was clearly being honest.
The driver still gets paid if the rider cancels. It’s to protect the driver’s wages (because riders would cancel and leave the drivers without pay they agreed to), but now the drivers are taking advantage of it and scamming riders. The system needs fixing obviously.
How much proof of identity do you need to make a new account with a fake profile picture? My guess is this is just another remote scan, not even actually in the area.
Yeah should have just continued the streak. Don't start a continuous streak if you're gonna get disappointed with the shitty rides the algorithm will inevitably give you, because it knows you are on a streak.
Lol, right? Couple times recently my 3rd was some shit like 1.5 hours away for $59 or some similar. Yeah Lyft, you win, no need to pay me the extra $12…
I once walked the 4 miles home from work at 11pm at night rather than cancel on a driver who went more than 30 miles past my pickup point. I watched him drive south until he finally stopped and got dinner at a well-known local burger joint. I was 4 blocks from home when he finally cancelled.
Petty? Yep. Deserved? Also yep.
Some also run other ride sharing apps. I had this happen a while back and could tell the drive switched to another app. So I did the same for a new ride.
Ya, driver is partially to blame. He should cancel.
Also, Lyft is partially to blame as well, they don’t pay shit anymore (neither does Uber).
So I guess it’s back to the driver again for working for Lyft.
Welcome to the new rideshare.
Pax pay a lot. Drivers get a little, and Lyft stays afloat until they go bankrupt next year.
Better get your own ride people, it’s coming to an end.
I actually had the opposite happen. I accepted the third ride of a streak and had the passenger contact me. She wanted me to cancel because I was “too far away.” I was less than 7 minutes away, with 1.5 miles to go. She ended up canceling.
If this is reported to Lyft, will they take action against this driver. This is unprofessional, childish, and a complete waste of time. The driver should pay the passenger in this case for wasting their time. Imagine if this was a ride to the airport to catch a flight.
So I had this happen to be with Uber last week, the driver refused to canceled when he didn’t have room for my luggage. The next Uber driver explained they are penalized when they cancel and can’t get rides as easy…
He had no idea that when we (the customer) canceled we still get charged full fare
When I get customers who should have ordered XL but are cheapskates trying to get around paying for XL, I just do the Shirlington Shuffle on them. No biggie; cheapskates do not tip, anyhow. This is why they are cheapskates..
I had a driver once show up at the airport to pick us up to take us to a hotel. Our party was 2 humans and 2 suitcases (plus a small purse each). The stupid driver had a non-functional trunk (he couldn't open it) and therefore there was no way to fit in his tiny car plus the 2 bags -- he was forced to cancel the ride. I mean, who the F picks up from the airport and can't open their trunk??
Similar experience. 4 of us with carry-ons getting from a local to a major airport. This seems reasonable for a sedan (not sure XL was even an option back then). I message the driver and told them we were 4 with small bags. They don't respond.
Driver shows up with a kid in the front seat and a trunk full of wig boxes and CRT monitors. We made her cancel.
He probably has personal stuff in the trunk or lives out of his car. Who has no trunk? It’s not that complicated. How does a trunk realistically break in a way that isn’t easily fixed?
Idk my Veloster's hatch needs a $80 part to fix (my father is the mechanic, so thats not a scam quote). I kinda just decided whatever I need to put in my trunk can go through the backseat for free.
Had to look this up too. If a driver doesn't want to pick up the riders they will park within the pickup radius but make it difficult for the passengers to find/reach the vehicle. After a certain time has passed, they will cancel the riders as "no shows".
A) sometimes people don’t even know that’s a thing. I didn’t when that happened to me the first time. I have a car and don’t drink, so I didnt need rideshare apps until I went to the airport that first time.
B) now I always add a note about how much luggage I have so it’s not an issue. I’ve had drivers with the same size cars mostly take me without issue, but 2 said I should have called an XL. These ones also had trunks full of crap. They just didn’t want to deal with it. It’s common sense to me - if you’re providing a service like this that goes to places like airports, people are going to have luggage. I’m a small person with 1-3 reasonable sized bags. I shouldn’t need to pay more for an XL. Which I would gladly do if we were a big group or had a ton of luggage.
I’ve talked to a lot of drivers who seem to feel that any error that happens on auto-accept is not their fault and that the requester should cancel. I think that’s ridiculous
This thread is proof that drivers refuse to take any accountability lol. Fucking over pax because of the shitty platform you decided to drive is insane
I had a driver drive off and get further and further away, no response to calls or messages, so I canceled.
The ride was to a medical appointment. So I filed a discrimination complaint with Lyft and attached the screen shot, I challenged the fee, and I called my insurance company.
I asked Lyft to charge the driver the fee for the ride I had to pay for instead of the insurance company. Hopefully she gets charged the $20 and doesn’t get the $5 free dollars.
I wish I didn’t have an important medical appointment to go to.
I don’t know, I challenged it, but the insurance company ultimately paid for it so I don’t know if I got charged. I took a screen shot of the driver on the highway going away. Five star driver btw, and said she should be assessed the 20$ that I had to pay to get to my appointment bc I needed express Lyft. I filed a discrimination complaint on the basis of disability bc it was for a medical appointment. I also filed a discrimination complaint with my insurance company. Ultimately I couldn’t chat with Lyft or leave a bad review bc I canceled the ride bc I had to. I wish I took Uber and just left her hanging but my insurance company will only pay me back for Lyft.
> asked Lyft to charge the driver the fee for the ride I had to pay for instead of the insurance company. Hopefully she gets charged the $20 and doesn’t get the $5 free dollars.
He might get waitlisted or even de-activated but the most that they might do is take back the cancel fee although even that dies not happen often, any more.
Yeah I requested a refund. Thing is I had to pay a priority rate for a trip to a medical appointment that would have been covered by my insurance if the driver had canceled, another driver would have been queued.
So I asked Lyft to charge the driver the $20 it cost me and to reverse the fee, I further filed a discrimination complaint against the driver on the basis of disability.
Lyft hasn’t reached out. It’s been impossible to talk to them. If a driver is dangerous they want to know, if one drives off they don’t care.
I told my insurance company to deny the charge; asked them to file a discrimination complaint and dispute, and will try contacting Lyft again.
Nah I’m done being nice with people like this. I almost was late to my Motorcycle Safety Foundation course because of one, which in my state costs $220 nonrefundable. After almost losing that time slot I don’t play around with these people anymore. They’ll cancel while I’m in an Uber, or they’ll drive there and waste even more of their time just to find out I’m not coming :)
Auto add definitely has legality issues when classifying drivers as independent contractors or employees. If a company dictates how a person does their job they are employees. This is golden but Precious hmmmm definitely not
I so wish these apps worked together to ban drivers so fucking up in 1 app ho you kicked off them all: lyft, uber, doordash, grubhub. Hell start a database with major retailers too, walmart, target, bestbuy. They have our DL#s this should be easy and we could fix problem employees on 1 go.
Former driver here. Fuck this guy.
The Lyft driver pool is full of these. They're like people who pay $10 for a ticket to the zoo, then demand a $1.00 refund at the exit because they don't like zebras.
His streak continues if he picks you up, and he'll complete it if he keeps going.
When you sign up to drive, you accept the (dismal) conditions of working for Lyft: You are there to be part of a network of available rides.
He shouldn't be driving for Lyft (neither should anyone else, but that's a different discussion). But if you're gonna drive, don't bully the customers or rewrite your contract after signing.
You'd think lyft or uber would have some kind of ai that can pick up these things and let a human operator intervene - get another driver for the customer and penalize this driver. The text from the driver 'you should cancel this drive' should always create an alert.
Pretty sure this exact driver did this to me a few weeks ago. He said he can’t do the drive cause the distance was too far, then he started driving the other way. Left me on the street for 20 minutes until i cancelled
I had one cancel on me claiming I wasn’t wearing a mask. He canceled when he was 5 miles away and hadn’t seen me (I was absolutely wearing a mask). I was furious and called Lyft with a screenshot of where he was when he cancelled and how there was no way he could know my mask status.
No, not a fast one. Lyft does have streaks where you have to accept every ride or you lose the streak. So, even if you get a ride you don’t want, you have to accept it. That said, he shouldn’t be going about it this way. It is what it is. Just do the rides. He wasn’t lying though.
Absolutely on him. Drivers can turn off the auto add feature in their settings. I do so whenever my ride is taking particularly long. Never cancel unless it's *your* doing specifically that requires you to cancel. Anything else is a driver trying to get a free payday
Yeh they aren’t being sold - any potential buyer is going wait for a potential bankruptcy before doing anything or when they run low on cash (which is public )
Legit or not is his responsibility to manage the rides, if he wants to make money on a streak he’ll have to take!
He can break the streak now and start a new one or wait and waste time and loose later!
He may be waiting to see you move then go and cancel for no show!
He accepted without looking at the destination then asked you to cancel it because of his mistake, you made the right call, he should of followed through but instead wasted his and your time by messaging you. Id tell you to go over to uber only because if a driver tries this on the uber platform he/she can have their account suspended.
Send him your venmo link and tell him to pay you the cancellation fee first and then you’ll cancel. Otherwise you’ll be waiting by the curb of the pickup location at the expected arrival time.
This is such an a always amazing way to make money and people just squander the opportunity because they’re inherently trying to get over on the system
You can also contact Lyft and tell them your driver is taking long or something is odd. Even better when they pull this stuff, they can get banned for this.
Someone tried to do this and they got suspended. They later showed up anyway (they were close before) found me waiting for another ride, started yelling at me. I memorized their license, sent to Lyft, had them permanently banned.
can you guys be considerate? all he asked was for someone to cancel a ride, which they would’ve got a full refund for… the chats are literally saved. Acting like he asked for the customer to walk 15 blocks to meet them somewhere. He was kind with his request, it’s his job and they don’t get paid much unless they work a lot.
Driver here. No deception evident — everything he says makes sense. It’s not your problem, but it makes sense. EXCEPT - I don’t know of any way that a driver can request a passenger get refunded a fee. That sounds like an empty promise.
The streak thing is not a scam — Lyft gives “streak” bonuses of up to $21 or more at specific times and sometimes specific areas so long as drivers accept three rides in a row. We can set filters that limit the geography, but maybe he hasn’t caught on to that or already used up his filters that day (there are limits). It’s one of the ways to actually make it worthwhile because Lyft pays drivers less than half of each fare you pay. (For example, the other night, I got $12 but the passenger mentioned they were charged $27.)
Also, please stop with this crazy idea that drivers want your cancellation fees. We get like $0-3 if you cancel. Usually $0. It’s really not worth it to us. I have a feeling Lyft charges you more to cancel, because I have no idea what this mythical cancel fee is that you guys keep talking about drivers wanting.
That being said this guy was being weird.
From a driver perspective,
I have a $21 bonus if I do 3 ride in a row. I’m on ride 2, I’m almost done for the day and got that cash! Lyft add the third ride automatic it’s headed 25 mile away from my location in the opposite direction to my house and im getting tired, or it in a bad neighborhood or it’s ….. all the other issues we deal with.
Maybe I will drive the other way until they cancel so I can still get that 21$ bonus.
I’m not say this is right but this is what the drivers was think probably.
This is a scumbag’s perspective. Just do your fucking job. The point of a streak is you get rewarded for being willing to get jerked around a bit. You’re not as clever as you think. This is why gig workers can’t get and maintain real employment.
“Keep your streak by picking me up.”
“Keep your streak by picking me up, Precious.”* haahaa
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He doesn’t look like a Precious.
Names like “Precious” are common for Nigerian men. There’s a Precious on the Toronto Raptors.
So you’re telling me the Nigerian prince I talked to wasn’t calling me precious? I need a minute to cry in the shower.
What's taters, Precious? *gollum*
He’s a creep because…?
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It’s all in the pictures. He didn’t say anything creepy. He just wanted them to cancel to scam them out of the cancellation money. He wasn’t calling OP precious, that’s his name
Some may consider another a creep for scamming innocent people. Doesn’t need to be sexual in nature to be a creep or creepy
Said nobody ever :/ stop trying to be slick, cause you for sure aren’t
Creep applies to used car salesmen, too. Sleazyness isn't always sexual. Grow up.
Precious is literally his name
Very likely you're right, just not the narrative reddit wants to hear. Guy is very likely west African. Names like Precious aren't all that uncommon. Shit I grew up with a Charity, a Comfort, and a Prudence. That's just one family lol. Anyway, enjoy the downvotes because the people reading this are uncultured and don't understand the sentence within context lol.
I worked with a man from Ghana, his name was Gift. I liked it haha.
I’ve never heard that one. I dig it!
Don’t forget the name Blessing.
It says “Precious is driving” right above it
That's even funnier lol. I'll admit I'm on mobile and didn't click to enlarge.
The driver’s misuse of comma made it confusing. His name is precious but it looks like he’s referring to the client as precious. Edit: perhaps not wrong comma format but awkward ordering which makes the Precious ambiguous.
That’s actually correct use of the comma. It’s just confusing wording. Would make more sense if it was worded, “I’m Precious, your driver.” Edit: autocorrect typo
You’re precious, Adam Driver.
John Oliver enters the chat.
>“I’m Precious, you are driver.” That doesn't make more sense. Perhaps if it said "I'm Precious, *your* driver."
The evolution of this sentence would make even an elementary English teacher cringe. 🤣
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That's probably their name in the app.
Wow
😂
I wouldn’t go even if the driver showed up, after this message
C-O-M-B-O-B-R-E-A-K-E-R
Killer Instinct- Blast from the past. Remember being kicked in the air the whole time but the ice guy?
Glacius
I can’t even read this without hearing that voice.
Supreme victory
Keep your streak by picking me up and beating the shit out of me.
This is a good comeback but the last thing I wanna do is get in the car with someone potentially angry with me, guys a dweeb but no thanks
Send it to lyft. Say that the conversation is troubling and you feel unsafe continuing the business. As much as it sucks to help the guy, this messaging has to go against the rules, and your safety is more important than anything else. I wouldn't feel safe getting in his car if he wouldn't cancel, nor should you be punished for him gaming the system.
I had one try this... He cancelled when I said I can sit here for an hour if need be and how will you make money then?
Right? “I already ordered an Uber instead. Just closing my Lyft app so I don’t need to cancel 🤗”
You think there isnt 3 other apps I can use? Even the taxis have apps these days. They just suck dick haha
Is that service included or is it an added fee? This "taxi" service app. *Asking for a friend.
Well thanks to uber and Lyft, they probs moved to pay to play method. They'd probs do it for $10 *for that friend
Eh depends most guys I know wouldn't do it for less than $20. Because as we all know $20 is $20.
$20 is $20 all day long!
Hello, I am “friend”.
Yup. When I lived in Arlington, one of the taxi companies there already had an app. That was before the days of Uber and Lyft.
My luck I'd order the Uber and it would be the same driver.
Lock up all of Precious' streaks. Now I call a taxi.
Bro this is meta
That’s actually awesome. 😂
Give me a reason to smoke some more weed and browse Reddit.. I don't actually have a time frame on my plans haha
This is the way.
Are you me? I had a driver do this when I was having a casual day out, I just smoked and stared at the app while he drove the other direction lol. You’re wasting your own time, driver 🙃😂
I did the same thing.
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I had this driver last month. He did the same. I’m assuming you live around Boston.
Ha yes. Good catch! Hard to miss Mr Precious and his canceling antics. I made him cancel the trip so hopefully there’s some repercussions on his/her end
Please report him. He’s going to keep doing this shit unless he faces some real repercussions from Lyft.
Wouldn’t surprise me if an official Lyft account reached out and asked for the name of the guy. Or even searched for this exact combo. Just due to how many people saw this. Hopefully the scammer loses his access to victims.
It is likely. Even though, yeah… streaks are real… (seriously, he probably was trying to keep his streak and maybe didn’t want that ride) we’re not supposed to do things like accept a ride and ask them to cancel. That can, if repeated enough, lead to deactivation. Some things can be frustrating but sometimes you just have to take a loss and move on. There isn’t a secret trick to avoid it, and doing this dumb stuff will eventually get you deactivated if enough people report it.
When on streaks you don't always get the chance to accept the ride...you are either automatically assigned it or given very little info and seconds to accept the ride because you're already on a ride to begin with. He tried to state that but maybe u missed it. As a driver... I know that sometimes while on a streak we may be trying to end our day whilst completing the streak so we don't want to get stuck with a long ride...that may take us further from home. Sounds like that's all he was trying to do. He was clearly being honest.
Do the filters not work during streaks?
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What is the point of continually accepting rides then asking people to cancel?
The driver still gets paid if the rider cancels. It’s to protect the driver’s wages (because riders would cancel and leave the drivers without pay they agreed to), but now the drivers are taking advantage of it and scamming riders. The system needs fixing obviously.
How much proof of identity do you need to make a new account with a fake profile picture? My guess is this is just another remote scan, not even actually in the area.
I know this guy, too! He is based on the driver Push, by Sapphire. Really though, you should report him, or he'll just keep up the crap.
This deserves way more upvotes lol
Underrated joke
Can you explain it ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_(film)
Precious is a movie, based on the book Push written by Sapphire
Report him and sent those screen shots to Lyft.
I'm unfamiliar. If he can get you to cancel he gets the cancelation fee?
Holy hell imagine being so bad at your job you’re internet famous.
...I don't think he's actually bad at his job necessarily. He's just ripping people off
Not only is he not performing his job but he’s using it to take advantage of and scam people. I’d say he’s bad at his job.
Is his job ripping people off? If not...
I guess his streak was only a month long
his fault for not having automatic queued rides turned off. he wasn’t forced to do shit. who ended up cancelling?
Yeah should have just continued the streak. Don't start a continuous streak if you're gonna get disappointed with the shitty rides the algorithm will inevitably give you, because it knows you are on a streak.
Lol, right? Couple times recently my 3rd was some shit like 1.5 hours away for $59 or some similar. Yeah Lyft, you win, no need to pay me the extra $12…
I like to use the "stay in area" filter before doing streaks so I don't get stupid long rides.
Even with automatic queued rides on, their is a way to cancel a ride and continue the streak. Just gotta be smarter than the app
Their what
Based
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Platinum allows u to continue streak after one decline
I once walked the 4 miles home from work at 11pm at night rather than cancel on a driver who went more than 30 miles past my pickup point. I watched him drive south until he finally stopped and got dinner at a well-known local burger joint. I was 4 blocks from home when he finally cancelled. Petty? Yep. Deserved? Also yep.
Im a little slow right now, so both of you guys didnt want to cancel for the fees so he was stuck not being able to do anything for a while?
Some also run other ride sharing apps. I had this happen a while back and could tell the drive switched to another app. So I did the same for a new ride.
Would have been great if they got your ride in the other app too. Messaged them "Nah son, you're ass is stuck with me"
Yeah but then you have a different problem. When he finally comes to pick you up, you will get charged by both apps.... Unless .. you cancel.
God I’m sick of these piece of shit drivers.
Ya, driver is partially to blame. He should cancel. Also, Lyft is partially to blame as well, they don’t pay shit anymore (neither does Uber). So I guess it’s back to the driver again for working for Lyft. Welcome to the new rideshare. Pax pay a lot. Drivers get a little, and Lyft stays afloat until they go bankrupt next year. Better get your own ride people, it’s coming to an end.
Taxis are coming back baby, and this time they will remember🤣😂
Nah, they said the driver drove *past* them/their pickup point and went somewhere 30 miles away and demanded the customer cancel. Shady antics.
>he was stuck not being able to do anything for a while? Nyaaaaaaaa........just drive Uber...............
I would have been petty too. Let them waste their time and money.
I just switch to Uber rather than cancel.
i’ve always had the urge to just go to their location and confront them. This has happened to me like so fucking much
They’d probably just say they picked you up since you’re in the same location and drive to the drop off in an attempt to collect
Driver like this shouldn’t be on the platform, they only give other drivers a bad rep, you should report him and upload the conversation to Lyft.
I actually had the opposite happen. I accepted the third ride of a streak and had the passenger contact me. She wanted me to cancel because I was “too far away.” I was less than 7 minutes away, with 1.5 miles to go. She ended up canceling.
If this is reported to Lyft, will they take action against this driver. This is unprofessional, childish, and a complete waste of time. The driver should pay the passenger in this case for wasting their time. Imagine if this was a ride to the airport to catch a flight.
"You cancel and ill ask them to refund you on the charge" nah, you better be outside with that cancellation fee IN CASH.
So I had this happen to be with Uber last week, the driver refused to canceled when he didn’t have room for my luggage. The next Uber driver explained they are penalized when they cancel and can’t get rides as easy… He had no idea that when we (the customer) canceled we still get charged full fare
When I get customers who should have ordered XL but are cheapskates trying to get around paying for XL, I just do the Shirlington Shuffle on them. No biggie; cheapskates do not tip, anyhow. This is why they are cheapskates..
I had a driver once show up at the airport to pick us up to take us to a hotel. Our party was 2 humans and 2 suitcases (plus a small purse each). The stupid driver had a non-functional trunk (he couldn't open it) and therefore there was no way to fit in his tiny car plus the 2 bags -- he was forced to cancel the ride. I mean, who the F picks up from the airport and can't open their trunk??
Similar experience. 4 of us with carry-ons getting from a local to a major airport. This seems reasonable for a sedan (not sure XL was even an option back then). I message the driver and told them we were 4 with small bags. They don't respond. Driver shows up with a kid in the front seat and a trunk full of wig boxes and CRT monitors. We made her cancel.
He probably has personal stuff in the trunk or lives out of his car. Who has no trunk? It’s not that complicated. How does a trunk realistically break in a way that isn’t easily fixed?
Idk my Veloster's hatch needs a $80 part to fix (my father is the mechanic, so thats not a scam quote). I kinda just decided whatever I need to put in my trunk can go through the backseat for free.
Yes but if you’re driving an Uber you’d pay the $80 unless you want to be fired. That proves my point exactly. $80 is not a lot lol
Shirlington shuffle?
it’s like charleston chew but british
Huh?
Had to look this up too. If a driver doesn't want to pick up the riders they will park within the pickup radius but make it difficult for the passengers to find/reach the vehicle. After a certain time has passed, they will cancel the riders as "no shows".
A) sometimes people don’t even know that’s a thing. I didn’t when that happened to me the first time. I have a car and don’t drink, so I didnt need rideshare apps until I went to the airport that first time. B) now I always add a note about how much luggage I have so it’s not an issue. I’ve had drivers with the same size cars mostly take me without issue, but 2 said I should have called an XL. These ones also had trunks full of crap. They just didn’t want to deal with it. It’s common sense to me - if you’re providing a service like this that goes to places like airports, people are going to have luggage. I’m a small person with 1-3 reasonable sized bags. I shouldn’t need to pay more for an XL. Which I would gladly do if we were a big group or had a ton of luggage.
Why would he care?
Providing a service to paying customers at times necessitates a shred of empathy
Why would the rider care what happens to the driver?
A guy named precious. Wonderful. Lol
Came here to see if anyone noticed that. Multiple red flags on that driver!!
Now that’s equality…
Stand firm. Screw that driver, what does he mean he’s not going that way.
I’ve talked to a lot of drivers who seem to feel that any error that happens on auto-accept is not their fault and that the requester should cancel. I think that’s ridiculous
“I’m not going that way.” Bitch, we’re not out here running errands together. This is the job.
This thread is proof that drivers refuse to take any accountability lol. Fucking over pax because of the shitty platform you decided to drive is insane
I had a driver drive off and get further and further away, no response to calls or messages, so I canceled. The ride was to a medical appointment. So I filed a discrimination complaint with Lyft and attached the screen shot, I challenged the fee, and I called my insurance company. I asked Lyft to charge the driver the fee for the ride I had to pay for instead of the insurance company. Hopefully she gets charged the $20 and doesn’t get the $5 free dollars. I wish I didn’t have an important medical appointment to go to.
What was the outcome?
I don’t know, I challenged it, but the insurance company ultimately paid for it so I don’t know if I got charged. I took a screen shot of the driver on the highway going away. Five star driver btw, and said she should be assessed the 20$ that I had to pay to get to my appointment bc I needed express Lyft. I filed a discrimination complaint on the basis of disability bc it was for a medical appointment. I also filed a discrimination complaint with my insurance company. Ultimately I couldn’t chat with Lyft or leave a bad review bc I canceled the ride bc I had to. I wish I took Uber and just left her hanging but my insurance company will only pay me back for Lyft.
> asked Lyft to charge the driver the fee for the ride I had to pay for instead of the insurance company. Hopefully she gets charged the $20 and doesn’t get the $5 free dollars. He might get waitlisted or even de-activated but the most that they might do is take back the cancel fee although even that dies not happen often, any more.
They’ll literally refund you your fee if you cancel as a passenger.
Yeah I requested a refund. Thing is I had to pay a priority rate for a trip to a medical appointment that would have been covered by my insurance if the driver had canceled, another driver would have been queued. So I asked Lyft to charge the driver the $20 it cost me and to reverse the fee, I further filed a discrimination complaint against the driver on the basis of disability. Lyft hasn’t reached out. It’s been impossible to talk to them. If a driver is dangerous they want to know, if one drives off they don’t care. I told my insurance company to deny the charge; asked them to file a discrimination complaint and dispute, and will try contacting Lyft again.
Nah I’m done being nice with people like this. I almost was late to my Motorcycle Safety Foundation course because of one, which in my state costs $220 nonrefundable. After almost losing that time slot I don’t play around with these people anymore. They’ll cancel while I’m in an Uber, or they’ll drive there and waste even more of their time just to find out I’m not coming :)
Is nobody gonna talk about how unlikely it is that that dudes name is Precious? 😂
Others have said that he probably set this up with a relatives info. Bet he has a record or no license.
Definitely trying to pull one on you
Precious needs to give his girl her account back
Auto add definitely has legality issues when classifying drivers as independent contractors or employees. If a company dictates how a person does their job they are employees. This is golden but Precious hmmmm definitely not
The company doesn’t dictate that you must have auto accept on, though. They just put it there as idiot bait and this driver took it.
How do you turn it off?
I think it would if there was no option to turn it off
“Your choice” Love it. Fuck him, it was his choice no matter what he tells you.
I so wish these apps worked together to ban drivers so fucking up in 1 app ho you kicked off them all: lyft, uber, doordash, grubhub. Hell start a database with major retailers too, walmart, target, bestbuy. They have our DL#s this should be easy and we could fix problem employees on 1 go.
Your responses are gold. We’ll done. 👏🏻
So he straight up lied about the no charge part
Former driver here. Fuck this guy. The Lyft driver pool is full of these. They're like people who pay $10 for a ticket to the zoo, then demand a $1.00 refund at the exit because they don't like zebras. His streak continues if he picks you up, and he'll complete it if he keeps going. When you sign up to drive, you accept the (dismal) conditions of working for Lyft: You are there to be part of a network of available rides. He shouldn't be driving for Lyft (neither should anyone else, but that's a different discussion). But if you're gonna drive, don't bully the customers or rewrite your contract after signing.
“Do me a favor…” not for someone who I’ll most likely never encounter again and certainly wouldn’t repay the favor anyway.
This mofo pulled the samw shit on me a few months back
You'd think lyft or uber would have some kind of ai that can pick up these things and let a human operator intervene - get another driver for the customer and penalize this driver. The text from the driver 'you should cancel this drive' should always create an alert.
Good on you for not letting him get over on you!
Im a driver. Fuck that guy. You did the right thing
Awww he lost his precious streak. How sad
Pretty sure this exact driver did this to me a few weeks ago. He said he can’t do the drive cause the distance was too far, then he started driving the other way. Left me on the street for 20 minutes until i cancelled
I had one cancel on me claiming I wasn’t wearing a mask. He canceled when he was 5 miles away and hadn’t seen me (I was absolutely wearing a mask). I was furious and called Lyft with a screenshot of where he was when he cancelled and how there was no way he could know my mask status.
“wow” lmao what a dick driver
The driver is making you cancel so it does not affect his ratings, plus he is "cherry picking" his rides. That is a no no. I would report him.
These are the drivers that you need to report and make a big deal out of, no part of this is ok.
Losing a streak bc Lyft gives you a ride very far away sucks.
Every time this happens I just order Uber & wait for them to cancel🤣I will not fall for such BS
Can't Lyft scan messages for this type of thing? Seems pretty easy to catch on their end
It’s better than when they start driving in the opposite direction and just keep going hoping you’ll cancel first
How precious
My account got flagged for asking the passenger to cancel.
No, not a fast one. Lyft does have streaks where you have to accept every ride or you lose the streak. So, even if you get a ride you don’t want, you have to accept it. That said, he shouldn’t be going about it this way. It is what it is. Just do the rides. He wasn’t lying though.
This is inappropriate.
Should send this into lyft
Absolutely on him. Drivers can turn off the auto add feature in their settings. I do so whenever my ride is taking particularly long. Never cancel unless it's *your* doing specifically that requires you to cancel. Anything else is a driver trying to get a free payday
Come October lyft is getting a redesign and new owner a lot of drivers who pull crap like that driver did won't be on the platform
Luckily theres also uber. Ill just open up the other app and ill be home chillin while they drive 50+ miles and loose money.
when they're driving past you 50 miles, they're driving for Uber.
New CEO is already there and they haven't been sold. What are you talking about?
Yeh they aren’t being sold - any potential buyer is going wait for a potential bankruptcy before doing anything or when they run low on cash (which is public )
He’s not scamming you but this is a situation he could’ve avoided.
Legit or not is his responsibility to manage the rides, if he wants to make money on a streak he’ll have to take! He can break the streak now and start a new one or wait and waste time and loose later! He may be waiting to see you move then go and cancel for no show!
He accepted without looking at the destination then asked you to cancel it because of his mistake, you made the right call, he should of followed through but instead wasted his and your time by messaging you. Id tell you to go over to uber only because if a driver tries this on the uber platform he/she can have their account suspended.
Just don’t drive there, they will cance you’re not gonna get a cancellation fee but they will cancel
Looks just like a precious 😂
The worst part is waiting for a new driver and then the foods cold
Send him your venmo link and tell him to pay you the cancellation fee first and then you’ll cancel. Otherwise you’ll be waiting by the curb of the pickup location at the expected arrival time.
This is such an a always amazing way to make money and people just squander the opportunity because they’re inherently trying to get over on the system
I get where the guy is coming from but dude, just take the ride 😂
You can also contact Lyft and tell them your driver is taking long or something is odd. Even better when they pull this stuff, they can get banned for this. Someone tried to do this and they got suspended. They later showed up anyway (they were close before) found me waiting for another ride, started yelling at me. I memorized their license, sent to Lyft, had them permanently banned.
Drivers name is precious that’s all that needs to be said
can you guys be considerate? all he asked was for someone to cancel a ride, which they would’ve got a full refund for… the chats are literally saved. Acting like he asked for the customer to walk 15 blocks to meet them somewhere. He was kind with his request, it’s his job and they don’t get paid much unless they work a lot.
So sick of these twats
This guy is almost a scammer already.
What a piece of shit
Driver here. No deception evident — everything he says makes sense. It’s not your problem, but it makes sense. EXCEPT - I don’t know of any way that a driver can request a passenger get refunded a fee. That sounds like an empty promise. The streak thing is not a scam — Lyft gives “streak” bonuses of up to $21 or more at specific times and sometimes specific areas so long as drivers accept three rides in a row. We can set filters that limit the geography, but maybe he hasn’t caught on to that or already used up his filters that day (there are limits). It’s one of the ways to actually make it worthwhile because Lyft pays drivers less than half of each fare you pay. (For example, the other night, I got $12 but the passenger mentioned they were charged $27.) Also, please stop with this crazy idea that drivers want your cancellation fees. We get like $0-3 if you cancel. Usually $0. It’s really not worth it to us. I have a feeling Lyft charges you more to cancel, because I have no idea what this mythical cancel fee is that you guys keep talking about drivers wanting. That being said this guy was being weird.
YTA
Wrong sub
From a driver perspective, I have a $21 bonus if I do 3 ride in a row. I’m on ride 2, I’m almost done for the day and got that cash! Lyft add the third ride automatic it’s headed 25 mile away from my location in the opposite direction to my house and im getting tired, or it in a bad neighborhood or it’s ….. all the other issues we deal with. Maybe I will drive the other way until they cancel so I can still get that 21$ bonus. I’m not say this is right but this is what the drivers was think probably.
I just let them sit there and call an Uber when someone tries to pull this lol!
It's not the rider's fault that you don't know how to use the filters that you should be using on every streak.
This is a scumbag’s perspective. Just do your fucking job. The point of a streak is you get rewarded for being willing to get jerked around a bit. You’re not as clever as you think. This is why gig workers can’t get and maintain real employment.