• haxe11@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    Personally I avoid Uber Eats. It’s way too expensive. I haven’t used the ride share service much for several years. Without looking much into the prices, I feel like they’ve lost much of their edge over traditional taxi service, but I do still like the convenience of being able to use their app almost anywhere in the US, at least. I should probably give Lyft a look at some point.

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      1 year ago

      I was planning to use rideshare to a place with possibly difficult parking, but the one way cost was $30-some. So that’s about $60 round trip. I decided to drive, with all-day parking costing $16…

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        1 year ago

        The only time I uber/lyft is when i’m travelling and won’t be able to take my car ($ uber < $ rental car), or when i’m gonna be drinking ($ uber <<< $ DUI). And even then I can often get a ride from a friend and/or DD…

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        1 year ago

        oops. my mistake. it’s become a bit of a workflow to click>hit paywall>copy/paste into archive>paste back link for others. i just didn’t see it. will delete. (edit: … or not based upon author’s request.)