Uber's 'Vomit Fraud' Sounds Worse Than Surge Pricing

Well...sure. The phrase has the discussion 'vomit' inwards it.

From Gizmodo:

As an Uber driver, you lot bring to bargain amongst low wages, an uncertain future, together with the possibility of getting yelled at past times the company’s billionaire founder. There’s also the to a greater extent than mutual final result of drunkard people puking inwards your dorsum seat. But a tidings study claims passengers inwards Miami are getting hitting amongst fees fifty-fifty after they kept their puke to themselves, a exercise called “vomit fraud.”

Uber’s policy stipulates that passengers tin live on charged a fee that ranges from $80 to $150 if they displace harm or brand a pregnant mess inwards a driver’s vehicle. H5N1 user typically gets a notification maxim that an “adjustment” has been applied to their bill, the alleged harm is given every bit a argue for the fee, together with photos of the final result are included.

The Miami Herald spoke amongst multiple passengers inwards the Miami surface area who claim they’ve been victims of vomit fraud. One man, William Kennedy, said that he was wrongly billed for cleaning fees twice inwards i night. After “numerous emails” fighting the charges, he was reimbursed but, according to the Herald, the procedure of disputing the fees is invariably hard together with Uber typically backs the driver’s claim.

One journalist who plant for the Herald’s Castilian linguistic communication sis newspaper claims that she ordered an Uber together with the driver never arrived to alternative her up. After canceling the trip together with getting a unlike driver, she afterwards institute she’d been charged $16 past times the driver who never arrived for a ride she never took, a $6 cancellation fee, together with a $150 vomit tax. After 4 emails disputing the charges, Uber reportedly agreed to give her a refund, maxim “it was an uncomfortable sense because the driver started the trip without you lot inwards the car.”

Uber passengers bring vocally complained virtually erroneous cleaning fees for years. In January, a adult woman inwards Melbourne, Commonwealth of Australia went to the press claiming she was wrongly charged $150 for what the driver called, a “Level 4 major bodily fluid mess.” And inwards 2016, a Tampa surface area driver was reportedly booted from the platform after charging multiple customers cleanup fees for suspiciously similar looking messes. One Uber driver speaking on status of anonymity told the Herald that it’s non uncommon for drivers to file illegitimate charges, struggle whatsoever disputes, together with win. Many people don’t cheque their credit bill of fare receipts together with the accuse only goes unnoticed....MORE 

Previously:

March 2015 
Uber Has H5N1 "Bodily Fluids" Cleanup Fee
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June 2018
"Uber patent filing reveals AI projection that could deny drunks a ride"
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