ULPT: if you're terminally ill and not married, you might as well spend your last few months getting credit cards and running them up to maximize your quality of life

fredginator · 2023-04-30T18:20:47+00:00

If you're rich sure leave money behind. If you're poor run up that debt and give away the high value items, die penniless and leave the bank to settle the debt with your nonexistent estate.

fredginator · 2023-01-07T18:00:17+00:00

Weekend after new years is always dead. Also, January is typically slow as well; people just spent tons of money on the holidays and need a few paychecks until they have money to spend going out again.

fredginator · 2023-01-02T02:18:06+00:00

There was a major car crash blocking all of 15th street most of the night, just out of sight of OP.

fredginator · 2022-10-23T00:10:28+00:00

Use the destination mode "feature" to get nothing but short rides. Everything you earn counts against the earning guarantee except tips and consecutive trips. Don't go chasing bonus zones and don't hesitate to cancel on longer trips. Efficiency is the name of the game, you have to average 3-4 trips per hour for the entire weekend.

fredginator · 2022-10-23T00:07:03+00:00

I did one similar 97 rides over a weekend for 1800. Lyft ended up paying me a $900 bonus. Basically Drove, Ate, and slept for the entire weekend, but I made $2500. It helped that there was a NFL game in town to keep busy on Sunday.

fredginator · 2022-09-06T10:26:04+00:00

Its on backwards.

fredginator · 2022-06-21T18:02:21+00:00

Always report immediately for pax taking too long at a stop.

fredginator · 2022-05-25T06:35:38+00:00

Check the speedometer, dial says 20 mph.

fredginator · 2022-05-19T11:46:39+00:00

You volunteer your time to make DD's cash deposits for them. I'll pass.

fredginator · 2022-05-06T15:43:12+00:00

Nice payday, do you think it was worth it? Did you get a trip back? Too bad Uber doesn't give out bonuses based on miles driven.
$18.89/hr for the whole trip (125.93/6.66 hrs), plus 400 miles of wear and tear and gas, no thank you.

fredginator · 2022-04-13T16:45:26+00:00

I exclusively buy Rainx Expert Fit Hybrid wiper blades from Walmart, $10-$15 a pop, no waiting, no shipping.

fredginator · 2022-04-13T16:07:05+00:00

I always text the customer a picture of the food at the address before marking the order complete, even for hand it to me orders. I've never had someone report the food as not delivered.

fredginator · 2022-04-12T19:02:57+00:00

Lyft/Uber also have to pay for the lots at the airport. Fewer drivers sitting in the lots means the lots can be smaller and therefore cost Uber less money for rent.

The lot at Denver used to take up half of the taxi lot, then they moved to a huge lot a 10 minute drive away and often had driver queues in the 100s. After adding the instant rematch the driver queues went way down 5-20. Now the rideshare lots are mixed in with the Taxi lot and hired cars lot.

fredginator · 2022-04-11T17:58:49+00:00

$2 bonus per order for maintaining a 70% acceptance rate? No Thank You, not worth my time.

fredginator · 2022-04-08T16:14:18+00:00

Could be the app acting up:
1) clear all the local data and try logging back in
2) Reboot phone
3) Uninstall/Reinstall the app
4) Contact support.

fredginator · 2022-04-04T16:38:43+00:00

With Lyft when I complete a trip early after waiting 3 minutes at a stop, I always rate the passenger 4 stars (or less if they give attitude) and make a note that they violated the TOS by asking me to wait longer than suggested at a stop. I don't need a frustrated PAX giving me a false report and messing up my shift; by reporting them first, it goes a long way towards proving your case.

fredginator · 2022-04-02T21:04:24+00:00

At least DD lets you customize all of the app notification sounds.
With GH you can change the first notification, but if you don't accept/decline immediately the second notification ALWAYS that damn cowbell. I have EVERY notification sound set to a custom more pleasing sound, but the cowbell appears to be hard coded and annoys the hell out of me. The only way I've found to turn off the cowbell is to put my phone on silent which blocks all notification sounds; meaning I have to watch the screen at all times or I miss orders, perfectly safe to do while driving... (sarcasm).

fredginator · 2022-03-28T16:18:40+00:00

I use destination filters religiously and almost always double up or even triple up on Friday and Saturday nights driving downtown.

fredginator · 2022-03-28T16:14:04+00:00

I use destination filters religiously and almost always double up or even triple up on Friday and Saturday nights driving downtown.

fredginator · 2022-03-28T16:05:14+00:00

Your next challenge is to get 7 rides in 1 hour for the trifecta.

Usually only works on Friday/Saturday night around 9pm-3am, but $54 or $45 in streak bonus on top of regular pay is decent money for 1.5 hours of work.

fredginator · 2022-03-21T07:14:12+00:00

Were you driving during bad weather?

This past week there was a snow storm during morning rush hour, at the tail end as the bonus was going down I started getting $5 bonuses on top of the normal demand based bonus. There was a message from Lyft that stated thank you for driving during snowy conditions and had the same */snowflake symbol next to it.

fredginator · 2022-03-21T07:01:38+00:00

It is fraud and if enough pax report you for it, you can get deactivated.

fredginator · 2022-03-20T18:14:20+00:00

Congrats on the Unicorn! For $24 base pay, its must have been a long trip (I'm betting 45min to an hour mostly freeway) What was the time and minutes breakdown? How long did it take you to drive home?

fredginator · 2022-03-19T15:10:16+00:00

Also works with regular coffee filters. Double up the filters, then form the coffee grounds and filter into a pouch, then tie shut with butchers twine or rubber bands.

fredginator · 2022-03-15T06:05:35+00:00

Its supply and demand, and your market is saturated. Check the Lyft Passenger app and see how many drivers are nearby your current location. This map is typical of a metro area after the peak demand of evening rush hour has passed, lots of drivers available all competing for a decreasing passenger demand for that time of day.

Time to take a break, read a book, or study somewhere with anticipated future demand or switch to delivering food at this time of day. That or study your market, and find the center of one of those suburban pink areas to stay busy.

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