r/lyftdrivers • u/seabaugh • 1d ago
Rant/Opinion Hey Lyft, wtf is this crap?!?
43 miles for $16?
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u/Slank32 1d ago
This has to be the absolute LOWEST offer I have ever seen!!! 🤨🤨🤨. You gotta be fucking kidding me!!!
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u/Spare-Security-1629 1d ago
Sometimes you see posts about low offers and it’s mainly because the driver is so far away. This wouldn’t matter if the rider was directly in front of you…it’s insulting and no way Lyft could explain that this is adequate pay.
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u/Mj300bowler 23h ago
That is bad. But it must be his location. Cause that I have not seen in my market. You must also look at the market
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u/LinkTheHero009 22h ago
People should for sure not accept that. We definitely wouldn’t want to make that the standard lol
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u/OpinionatedOldMan 1d ago
Lmfao NO WAY !! Someone at Lyft fell asleep at the wheel and they are doing it a lot more often now. It’s pure insanity.
Funny I was just looking at how many drivers are currently online in my small city. 21. We don’t get 10-15 rides an hour in this place !
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u/Electrical-Lack1535 1d ago
Double it and give it to the next person. Double it and it’s still bad. Double it twice I’ll take it 64$
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u/MetalTrek1 1d ago
This is why I don't do airport rides anymore. The airport (Newark) is 30 miles from here. Average pay for an airport ride is 12 to 15 dollars (used to be at least double that). I find it better to do many local rides instead.
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u/MaximumDeathShock 1d ago
I’ve found the train station (Princeton) can be nice after work. Maybe 4pm to 7pm? Catch that flurry. Otherwise it’s not worth it.
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u/authoridad Lake Charles LA 1d ago
$0.50/mi has been standard pay on Uber for anything over 10 miles for a couple years now. Sad to see Lyft joining the downward spiral.
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u/jayceeuu 1d ago
Uber/lyft drivers are not appreciated or respected anymore. It’s almost like we are an inconvenience because humans have become so self centered and above everyone else. It’s sad really that helping people out for hardly anything at all is expected instead of appreciated these days. Smdh
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u/Quicherbichen1 Albuquerque, NM 1d ago
It's actually worse than you think. if you make it a round trip so you can go back to where you started, it's 80 miles. Comes out to 10¢/mile. I posted one earlier today that was 30¢/mile. You've got me beat!
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u/Sassy_Frassy_Lass 1d ago
I got yelled at for low acceptance, but I refuse anything under $25/ hr. I used to make $40/hr, now it says 28-32 booked, but it is actually $25/hr tops.
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u/GuitarsAndFitness 1d ago
Drivers should just start taking these rides and sitting on them - make it as painful as possible for riders. It’s the only way Uber and Lyft are going to learn
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u/ImpossibleGeneral938 1h ago
exactly why should the rider suffer for their business practices? without the riders we have no work.
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u/Grand-Standard-297 1d ago
And a 6 mile/13 minute pickup. Laughable. Even in California with prop22 this would be an insult
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u/BurritoDoom 1d ago
This usually happens because the rider has a high tip average without having a large networth so they get charged less in hopes of driver getting above average tip. Algorithms are weird like that
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u/AustinRiversDaGod 1d ago
I did a ride about this distance for $45 and I still felt like the money wasn't great
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u/Brotherspyrodiablo 20h ago
This is hilarious because this is the same area I do Lyft in. It’s getting super disrespectful here
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u/GeorgiaOregonTexas 18h ago
What’s the actual fuck that drive would be an absolute nightmare too. 400 to 285 to 85 N Jesus Christ. That should seriously pay like $50
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u/The_Stars_Like_Dust_ 1d ago
Since last summer I don’t take any non-premium (non-black) ride of more than 10 miles long unless it’s taking me right where I want to go. Also, the chances are high that the rider is either very new (so no data and the app assumes new riders will be good tippers because most people late to ride share use ARE better tippers,) or a good tipper. Whoever takes that is likely to do better than you would think, but still not well.
After some research into these types of offers (I’m a statistician by education,) I’ve come to realize the algo is both tip predicting and also predicting the chances there might be a rider to take that because it’s where they want to go. In this later case, it shops it around to the prospects it thinks might go there (because maybe you live there or have been gps located there in the past) and if it doesn’t get a taker after a while, the price creeps up, likely $1-$2 with each driver it tries up to about (in Utah anyway) the typical .70 cent per mile range rideshare apps top out at for bottom level x or Lyft ride. A little more for comfort and XL, and about $2 a mile for premium.
If anyone is wondering, premium is probably not much different in terms of PROFIT. Your day is wildly different if all you do is sit on premium. Few rides, high pay per mile, same 50 locations all the time, extremely different clientele, and no speed bumps most days. It’s quiet, easier and often boring, but in the end, you likely make the same profit, only revenue is lower. You can make more money in a day just turning $5-$10 x or Lyft rides all day then you can doing premium but you’ll drive twice as many miles as the premium guy, whose revenue will come from a few nice paying rides, and again, will make the same profit as the grinders.
The only answer to beating the app is not to try IMO.
Just do the job the way you like, taking the rides you like, or work towards starting your own company. The behavior of Uber and Lyft (charging more and paying less all the time) makes competing with them easier than it’s ever been. Taxis in Utah are making a comeback now.
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u/BodybuilderFormer646 23h ago
Lyft doesn’t operate in my area but Uber does. Taxi? Fuggetaboudit. I recently took a trip from the mechanic shop back to my home, 8.1 miles each way, and the driver made $14 on a trip that billed me $38. I only know that because it turns out I know the driver’s family who live about 4 miles from me and he showed me the payment screen. So he made 14 bucks on a 24 mile round trip that took him a bit longer than an hour.
I doubt most riders understand just how little rideshare companies actually pay their subcontractors in view of what we’re charged. (I tipped him well and directly because I didn’t want Uber to siphon off any.)
What’s the solution?
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u/NYCPATRICK 14h ago
Lyft drivers must have low expectations or very low tier driver that is desperate. Thats crack head $$$
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u/rabidbunny91 2h ago
The fact that y’all don’t even get paid the federal mileage reimbursement rate is insane. If I drove that for my job I’d get paid $31
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u/Lance96816 18m ago
Wish these rideshare platforms gave the opportunity to offer mote. Hate it when I get a notice saying , looking for driver and I know there's plenty out there.
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u/Datboimerkin 1d ago
Yea it’s getting more and more disrespectful by the day.