GAZZUZZ:


as long as it's just to vacuum and recharge no problem.

OK boss, will show tomorrow after changing windscreen at Ladipo

NoDulling4here:
help!!!!!
I was removing my phone case when I mistakenly pressed a key combination. At first, the phone entered fast boot. but it was staying too long on that screen (about 10+ mins). then I tried a soft reset holding the power button plus volume up button. then the phone vibrated a the next screen I saw was the one below. full of Chinese characters that I don't understand. now I don't know what to press. gurus in the house please help. thanks


please excuse the blurry image. took the picture from an old school tablet.

Maybe you should just press and hold the power button till the phone goes off

GAZZUZZ:
seems thread is back on track again.

Chief, I want to come and recharge my AC, hope diagnosis fee will be waived, as per change the narrative levels

bigtt76:
Brings us to the question "which is best" - washing ass with water after poo or using toilet paper? I prefer water and I try as much as possible to do my number 2 first thing in the morning and before bathing too to avoid all this crap. Noticed a lot of people just poo and wear back their pants ...so disgusting

Ahhh aunty, you can lie o.

And where is your GPS location when you notice all these people pooping

Carshopper:


Orgbeni what are u doing online

So na you be carshopper! Friflow just dey tell me for house now. I dey come collect my tithe from you.

Would never have guessed with all these your narrative grammar

Demeanor, over to you.

Seems someone needs a long break from Nairaland

Sommyroy10:
8k. 1k for the sim, compulsory 7k for a 30gb welcome data.

Why buy sim for 8k when you get SIM + USB Wi-Fi dongle for 6k with 10g free data

Carshopper:


I use Ntel unlimited ... its Ok ..

Seriously?! Ntel that a lot of peeps on the ntel thread has been complaining about its erratic nature.

were you using ntel as a part time driver or when you where driving full time?

nitigriti:


About time, sir

Better late than never.

On another topic...

Since we all know internet stability is usually a function of location in lagos.

Drivers please share your experience, which is the most consistent internet service provider that's stable in all parts of lagos and most suitable for e-hailing?

dru23:


Look deep down your heart. If you are given a choice, would you prefer to be a rich bastard or poor and not be a bastard?
Wooooo.... Woooooo.... Woooooo

You're still not getting the point Sir.

Being an uber driver does not make you a poor person or a second class citizen. Also being an uber driver does not mean you're not a car owner. Being an uber driver or a partner is not mutually exclusive Sir.

So some of us just catching fun at the level of ignorance being spilled on here.

And for the record, I'll rather not be a bastard of any form by ridiculing the honest hard work my parent went through in order to get me quality education.

jpworld:


Na wow, this dog is on the loose again?

rawdpiper:


The Swift merit works, I'll send soon start using the unlimited night once it's 11pm. And there is no data cap of any sort. Just keep browsing. And they've even upped the higher end plus plans also

How do you subscribe for this plan after exhausting the initial bonus plan that came with the device.

The swift merit plan doesn't show up in the list when I want to change the plan

Romeo3:

There is nothing to be ashamed of here. Driving is a honourable proffesion. Imagine in 25 years time someone trying to use my driving now to score cheap points against my son.

Makes no sense.

But what if in 25 years time, your son begins to run his mouth and abuse drivers, calling them slaves and all sort of names like they are 4th class citizens?

Won't you agree that, that particular boy is an 'Omo ale jati jati'(useless bastard)

medd422:
information reaching me now is that Ogataxi is giving out 05 Corollas for 2million at 20k per week. Drivers should quickly take advantage and emancipate themselves from modern day slavery. God bless you all

Interesting development. 1% weekly remmitance.

This will make some noise makers here commit suicide

@ andalucia

your write up is clear and it really does sound like you're a man on a mission.

some of the cars you mentioned makes me conclude your research is not yet complete especially considering you're willing to pay 50k weekly rentals. cars with max 1.8 engine size will be the best bet for you.

wish you the best in your endeavors

jpworld:


Lol, upgrade to where? To adjust to wat u want, is what you call upgrade?

If I downgrade 10x, you still never reach my level.

Go face ur dog and laptop business.

I hear you

jpworld:


So you never reach America?

So you never buy car?

Then you wan tell us, how much is good for the business. Just wait until you buy ur own car, then u do wat u r advising.

Seriously dude, you need to upgrade your mentality.

Because something is a huge milestone for you, doesn't make it a milestone for others/everyone.

That's how you keep accusing everyone here to go and buy a car first, even those almost everyone here knows they have numerous cars on the platform.

funny how you believe everyone that do not share your view is not a car owner.

I will not come to your level by engaging in a pissing contest with you. keep wallowing in your ignorance.

jpworld:


Na wao, oga dynamic, tell USA car rental company to send cars to you nah. At least with their brand new cars nobody will look at the tokunbo we are offering.

Just two questions? you don enter flight go America
b4?

You don buy car put for Uber b4?

If u don do the 2, then quote me, with dynamic and peculiar, then I go listen to ur advice.

It's obvious you're just a troll desperately seeking for attention.

OK, we don hear, you don win. Keep wallowing in your ignorance

Drivers on Uber and taxify should stop accepting transfers. There's no option for transfer on the platforms, it's either card or cash.

And I think it's time they do away with the cash option and stick to only cards.

It's cases like this that makes Uber better than taxify. Uber will simply refund you if rider does not pay, but with taxify, you're on your own

Seems a lot of us here don't really understand business dynamics that's why we are arguing about who invests more or makes more money.

every business has its own peculiar dynamics, bit generally speaking, in most businesses, investors think long term. it
I think here in Nigeria, we generally have a get rich quick mentality, that's why we are making so much noise on driver vs partner and who makes more money.

@ olaboy, jpworld and the rest, I hope you know that uber didn't start here in Nigeria, neither did the principle of car rentals to drivers for use on Uber.

let's even take a look at USA where most rental companies buy brand new cars to give to uber drivers.

they spend about $30,000 to buy a car, and yet they collect average of $300 as weekly rentals from drivers. that's about a meager 1% of the cost of the car! and yet you don't see them complaining that the drivers are cheating them.

but here that we buy tokunbo cars averaging N2m, and collect a higher % of rentals compared to what is obtainable in USA, we the ones shouting up and down and wanting to break the internet/Nairaland. while the USA counterpart giving out brand new cars with lower rentals see it as a good business. they even add a lot of perks Nigerian partners cannot even dream of like discount on gas, free emergency services or car exchange etc all these on to just 1% rentals o!

Abeg make all of una go rest, no be by force, If you no like the business, face another one or create your own model and get willing drivers on board with your model.

mazinaija:
when is the narrative going to tilt towards hybrid cars and diesel cars.

CC Gazzuz

Diesel car is a capital NO in Nigeria. I'll still take an electric car over a diesel car any day.

too much adulterated Diesel in Nigeria which could well cause havoc

GAZZUZZ:


state car model.

2009 Honda city

GAZZUZZ:
new tyres in stock.

205.65.16 4units Good year 2016

215.65.16 2units Yokohama 2016

215.60.16 4units Salin atrezzo 2016

215.60.16 1unit General RTX 2016

185.60.14 2units yokohama 2017

205.65.15 2units Falken 2015

195.60.15 2units yokohama 2014

225.50.17 2units continental 2015

245.55.19 2units bridgestone 2014

215.45.17 2units continental 2016.

How do I know the tallest tire I can fix on a car in order to increase ground clearance?

oem spec is 185/55r16
currently car issues 205/55r16

olaboy1:


I don’t care how long or how much a driver makes. How many times do you want me to repeat myself.
My own narrative is my drivers will be on a 70/30 EARN AS YOU GO and not some current market pricing weekly block payment, that way everyone is on checkmate.

Yes I am entitled to protect my investment and if you see it as an obsession so be it. I did not come to beg money from you.
When you Nigerians don’t have any sensible way to argue your case, you start the name calling....greedy and envious hahahahaha, same archaic emotional blackmail you id#ots throw around. Same way Nigerian girls call you broke ass stingy nig#a when they are not able to milk you, does that sound familiar to you now.

Now run and go get your 1m ready.

Don't make it about Nigeria please.

Even in USA, we have car rental companies that offer the same model of weekly rentals that we offer here in Nigeria for E-hailing and I have not come across anyone of them running a profit sharing model.

Only one company I have seen that requires you have to bring back the car to the company once you reach 1000km per week and they have been having some major hiccups. All the other companies don't care as long as you pay your fixed weekly rentals

So we understand that you want something different from the current model, but it's not only in Nigeria that this model is obtainable, so no need to make it sound like it is.

Like I have said before, as long as partner and driver agree on a terms of the contract binding them together, then anyone can run any model they want

omonla10:
same here, carried some guys from abulegba to badore ajah but discovered that their bill stopped reading towards the end of 3mb{cos I always checked the bill on motion to avoid stories that touch} told them immediately. It stopped reading on 3000 and refused to increase. Even 300 toll did not add.. I immediately renegotiated with them which we agreed 3k extra.. Lo and behold, they paid 3k and promised to send 3k since last Tuesday.. Till today I still get stories that touch each episode for each day.. Would ever try that again though.

Why would the bill stop reading and Is it a common experience for the bill to stop reading?

Permit my ignorance

olaboy1:


Your argument is baseless. Uber drivers don’t fuel the car from their own take home. Uber drivers remain employees just like any other job, and if they want to become partners then let them put down 1m Naira as part of car purchase, my friend that to me is partner.

Uber refers to investors as partners because Uber does not have the money to put 10,000 cars on its fleet in every region they operate, so they heavily rely on investors money and rightfully refer to them as partners. Try and follow the Estonian Taxify guy from its start up and how money was a huge set back for him.

Uber and many multinational companies have only liquid assets in Nigeria because they are very smart and don’t trust our system and it’s people to build massive infrastructure or office headquarters here. Any magomago they declare bankruptcy and move sharp sharp like olx because of people with mindset like you.

If you really want to become my partner and share profit with me 50/50, then bring your own 1m Naira or hide your face. Let’s change the narrative please

They're people out there that even see their wives as an employee and not a partner

Your life, your views, your perspectives. Whatever rocks your boat

olaboy1:


The same way Bubu went to the international community to agree that Nigeria is indeed corrupt. You can see the resultant effect of his lack of wisdom. When you spread FUD investors run away

Governments all over the world most times give investors tax break; I bet you don’t know why.
Do you know how Lagos state government worship Chagoury brothers despite the fact that they are here to make money.

Start watching the video from 6:50


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTbcdLj94UI

Are you aware that most investors engage in CSR (corporate social responsibility), building free schools, libraries and hospitals.
Finally have you ever worked for any white, Lebanese or Chinese man before? Chinese men work twice as hard as Africans and the white man would make sure you work for every penny he pays you. You obviously don’t get the intended message of showing gratitude to your investors, you are viewing it just from one perspective.

Do you really think Etisalat, MTN, DSTV etc are paying their staff 50% of their profit?
Can you confidently go on CNN and say “investors are welcome to Africa but they should remember they are here to make money and not here to do anyone a favor”, if you can’t then I think you should re-evaluate your stance on this matter.

No employee in the world spends their money in the running a business. All employees give their time and skill and get paid in return.

By the time someone begins to spend their money for a business, they are no longer an employee but a stake holder.

Drivers in the e-hailing business are not employees of car owners, they are stake holders. So no single person is doing the other a favor, they are both adding value collectively.

You asked if mtn is paying employees 50% of their profit... Let me also ask you if an employee in mtn will use his money to buy Diesel into mtn generator?

If you want uber driver to be an employee, then pay for fuel and all other running costs, after which you now pay the driver a fixed salary. I think Ogunvic fleet company has a model that runs like that.

So don't get it twisted

I think another misconception is a lot of people thinking the driver earns more than the car owner.

I have noticed here in Nigeria, when we talk of business, we always talk in terms of gross profit and not net profit.

Imagine a driver that makes 100k after Uber deductions. He will give partner 40k, then he will say he is making more money than the partner. How on earth is that possible.

What of all the expenses he incurred like fuel, internet, feeding while driving, small car fixing, car washing etcCost of phone calls? Most people don't factor in all these expenses.

In uber business, industry average expenses is 20% of your net earnings from uber.
So if you say you make 100k, at least you'll spend average of 20k weekly(if not more than) on the expenses listed above.

So you're left with 80k. Idf you remove 40k weekly rentals, you're left with 40k.

So your making just about the same money with partner if you do 100k net weekly. Anything less than 100k, you're not.

olaboy1:


In the west everything is based on percentages. Even your house rent should not be more than 30% of your monthly take home after tax.
I can’t give out my cars base on drivers model for my business. Profit sharing is 70/30, the more you work the more you earn, the less you work the less you earn. If we were to follow your model, then partners could also say I will pay you 100k monthly and it doesn’t matter if you make 1m monthly. Does that sound well to you?

Job contracts here even states working hours T&C in percentages.

It doesn’t make any sense for drivers to run down partners cars while chasing his personal goal only to dump the car and leave the partner with a devalued asset yet to break even.

It is what it is.

That is why every body has the right to change the narrative ;peasf it's profit sharing model you want, it's good too if there's mutual agreement.

In business and contacts, there's really nothing like cheating as long as there's a contract in place.

Even if you want to be paying driver fixed 100k monthly, i don't see it as cheating as long as both parties agree to the terms.

So partners agreeing to 35k weekly rentals should not be crying if drivers are making 150k weekly. If you no like am, change the narrative

Please who has an idea of the cost price of original windscreen for a 2009 Honda city?

cc Gazzuzz

olaboy1:


Who says I see myself better and above anyone. I am the most humble person you would ever come across, if you go back the pages, there was a time I solicited for low working hours for drivers (8-10hrs max), but many people countered it citing the poor economic conditions in Nigeria cannot be compared with the west.

I look out for both drivers and partners. Drivers should earn decent income and partners should be able to break even on the invested capital.
Drivers are at risk on the job, so are partners. Some partners do 2-3 jobs abroad just to raise the capital for the business and rather than been grateful many drivers sound rather harsh and ungrateful.

How many jobs has Nigeria government created for you?
what’s the poverty level in the land?
What’s the average income of people with masters degree in Nigeria?

I say it again be grateful that investors are putting their money in the business to gainfully employ Nigerians.

Ok let me come out clean so you have an idea. I have several investments and brokers in 3 continents, and I can conveniently afford to put 200 cars on Uber. I can decide to leave my money on foreign soil, but when I visit Nigeria I feel so ashamed of the poverty level and want to contribute my own quota into nation building, but I am not going to do that if the terrain doesn’t protect my hard earned capital of 18yrs.

Now the question is am I losing anything by staking my capital abroad....absolutely NO. One of my British brokers knows the Nigerian terrain so much that I marvel at his business acumen.

I don’t see how partners have been greedy so far, when I see I will call them out also. But a driver thinking he can rake in major part of the money for himself only doesn’t sit down well with me.

Most rentals is not a profit sharing model, so if driver likes, he can work for 24 hrs as long as he delivers his pre-agreed weekly rentals, the partner cannot do anything, even if the driver makes 300k in a week, partner still collects pre-agreed amount Even if the partner can see what the driver makes, it's of no relevance.
So that's not cheating.
It's a fixed income model., except partner now what's to opt for profit sharing

henry007:
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