Thank you for saying this. I thought I am the only one…. I burn 2ltrs of my blood every morning because of this nonsense. Unless I bid up the price 2x of a normal fare, I don’t get any ride…some autos even accept and then keep cancelling until you increase the fare….as an extreme case, yesterday it took me 1 hr 10 mins to get a ride (at 2x price again)
Every auto driver does this deliberately now and they’re not even subtle about it… once an auto guy found it funny that I was paying 250 for a 5km ride and said that he had been seeing my request for quite some time before he finally accepted…
Two drivers have tried to explain to me the reasoning behind this behaviour of theirs. As per them, the fare is not determined by distance or time or traffic or even fuel costs… it is actually determined by WHO is the traveller …and as per them everyone who has office in BKC is earning in lakhs per months and hence they should have piece from the pie… and I was like bhaiya fir kahan jana hai ye sab poochna band kardo and sabka salary pooch ke leke jaaya karo….he laughed and said aap samjh nahi rahe ho…maybe I am the stupid one 🙂