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It is via email.

pope191:
Boss can u explain more on this? Is it via mail? If yes, can I see the mail? Just trying to figure out way forward.

Tnx bro

Vision2045:
Sorry for that bro.....Greener days ahead..

So guys Bolt Don tell me sey my account block is indefinite. Please who is on Ocar here? You dey get trips for island?
Is Uber onboarding now too?

I m on offline fully now oo. Kindly update me with trips. Gat bills to pay.

I owe them about 3k.

InfinityEstates:
Hmmm... So those guys that were blocked were not owing them? Davit and pope191 kindly confirm.

Bro, no be small thing o. Even early in the morning,
some riders will be telling you put on AC. I have even been compromising but not without face mask. Even at that, they will still argue why they must use mask.
These are the people who don't even use AC at home o. Imagine a guy telling me last week that AC is number one priority for using ehailing. I con ask am sey what about moving him from point A to B. He said that one na secondary. Local man just gentle.

Parlee:
Got a trip this afternoon and got to riders location after waiting for 15 mins plus she comes out and I start the trip. Started driving off next thing she is like wont you turn the AC on, i said NO. She like why? I'm like you should have received an email about using AC from the app na. She's like she cant go without AC n i just jeje reverse for am open central lock end trip receive cancellation fee de go my own. Trip wey be card trip before lol Mad people everywhere oo

Abi na the foolish guy wey request yesterday, luckily I was at the beginning of his close so I called and told him and he said pls no vex give me 10 mins. Na so I start waiting game de read news for phone before I know 15 mins don pass, I call this guy again he say the same thing no vex I am already coming downstairs. Like play like play waited another 15 mins, 30 mins all together na so I start car reverse de go my own cancel the trip collect my 3h cancellation fee... dude called 5 mins later I didnt even bother to pick up again.

Just one of the things we dey face for road. Unfortunately, Bolt management no wan understand this.

drmikeadams:

What about you bro? Did they give you target?

pope191:
Have faith.... Dats all I can say

But my account is still blocked.

Na really wa!

Bigleaf1006:
30k is 4,285 naira daily, you work Monday to Sunday.

Drivers would normally pay by COB Tuesday that's additional say 2 days, but with the present situation, we even had one just paying today and he is the last of 3 drivers.

Since partial lockdown commenced, we have bought 1 new battery, 2 tyres,1 shaft,gear seals ,2 oil changes and one is already complaining about linkages and ball joints.

How would you survive as an investor with loans to pay?

You dey mind the mumu rider. As if transfer is an option.

pope191:
Inbtw I find this on twitter, how we go settle this matter now? Bolt said no transfer, yet this rider get some high on her right to insult drivers for doing the wrong thing. Crazy world! When abnormal becomes the norm, we Kind of forget what is right or wrong.

I'm reasoning that too. Didn't finish my on boarding last year. Might need to go do another inspection be that. I hope they are open for business unlike Bolt?

And I just did reinspection with Bolt o

pope191:
This one is a bag of trouble, even if d rating humble her, I'm sure sometin still want to seek for fault in her. On d second tot ask someone doing life on both if he have another chance, what will he do? Surely I won't cancel *My reality*

Davit & NYC, hope deh have unblocked u guy, finally I'm left with no choice than to romance Uber

So is it a return trip?

You can reach me for further talk anyways. Please don't quote this. You can text me.
I will call you back.

Eizenburg:
Place is quite far and remote. The only sensible thing is to look at it as a return trip. Assuming the return leg of the trip ends at Maryland (at least you’d be back to civilization), total distance should be about 100km. Trip shouldn’t exceed 4hrs, 5hrs at most.

N10k seems to be a fair deal.

Now tell me this is a joke. Some riders are indeed fond of making this mistake. Reason I would tell at times when I start the trip the address shown on the app. I have had reasons to change address several times.

Vision2045:
my people rider order ride from agege , he wan type "okota " as destination but he type "ikota" . Rider enter car sleep off. Open eyes for ikota lekki.... Na the case we still dey settle like this

Hope the person can pay sha. Thats a very far place. More or less going to Epe.

15k offer.

Is it drop off only or to and fro?

Eizenburg:
Who’s interested in this trip? Monday morning 6am. Pickup Ipaja, Drop off Agbowa.

Quote me with your price.

Making 3 bans then.

pope191:
Twice for low rating and first time for passenger do not show... Can't get them as the support says its not up to them to be precise on matters like this.

I sent in-app message.
How many times have they banned you before?

pope191:
It is well... How were able to reach them?

Nope. They said they re looking into it and will get back to me.

This is my third ban. So I don't know how soon it will be attended to.

pope191:
Have they unblocked u?

I noticed too that the revenue and net not changing.
Are they truly planning to increase commission without increasing riders fares?

InfinityEstates:
Really? There was no mail to that effect. I even tried checking now and the 'Revenue' and 'Net' from Monday is the same. I'll look out for it.

But wait o, if really it's now 27%, would that make me jilt Bolt

How come? How did you get this?

ennon92:
Do you mean Bolt's commission is 20%?




Newsflash; Bolt's commission is now 27%

This one strong o

NYCnextStop:
same issue here. I sent them mail to that effect and their first response was that my account is suspended till 2030. Later they sent another mail saying if in a week’s time I don’t hear from them I should know that my account has been blocked permanently

Have you contacted them?

pope191:
Boss I'll hold u responsible for this o that's if it have to do with A/C, some riders will tell you they don't want A/c, but anyone u have issue wit regarding A/c and he or she just rest the case, forget it! You've won d war, but the battle is still on. Well, they said it is up to the operational unit to review history and see when to unblock

pope191:
Inside life

I dey same shoe with you o. Really inside life.
Wetin I fit do guys? I have sent them a message earlier about riders likely giving low rating cos of the new guidelines that they are not comfortable with.

Wow

Gentlelife50:
Are you for real?

Next time you have a trip to VGC make sure the rider shares the code with you. Else, OYO

They ask for code now. And I remember sharing my experience regarding this before Covid. I was literally stranded for more than an hour.

Gentlelife50:
Oh do they now ask for code to drive out?
They only have to check your trunk, unless you have load.
Abi dem just start??

The new trick these oloshos use is to book you on hold before 6pm. 2 of them did that to me today. They booked some mins past 5pm when they knew they were not ready. I waited for close to 20 mins before one of them called to assure me that they would soon join me. Fast forward to 6.15 they called and I told them that I had left. They flared up. Called me all sorts of names and cancelled trip. I chatted them mins later that I was still around. To cut the story short, they became humbled. We went offline. And local man collected more.

pope191:
2 things happed to me during this lockdown, funny experience to me as I never tot I can get emotional again doing this driving stuff.

1. On a very good day after going to the island and back to mainland ard 6 30pm, I'm going to ogba, so I found myself ard Adeniyi Jones, this request entered, called rider, she's at Toyin street going to Berger I smile, since I already have 9500 on my dash board, let me just upgrade to 10k, since dis lockdown period is harsh & no one knows tomorrow. That was how I blow thro during that rush hour from Adeniyi Jones to Toyin street on a 10 mins ETA, as I was driving towards Allen, I'm just observing the traffic on the other side of the road (from Opebi rd abt to Allen). As I turned into Toyin, I hear the cancellation sound Jesus! I didn't know when I call the rider and almost cry asking her, why! Why!! Why!!! Why on earth did u do this kind of a tin, look at the traffic out here. She was just apologising "I tot u were still far away and I need to get another ride"... I didn't even bother to ask her, if I could drive down to her, I cut the phone on her and just look out for another ride, which I was able to get.

2. This one happened last week. Around 4:50pm, I check my dashboard and I'm just pondering worst day (3400 plus 1k offline) and if I should just call it a day, when this request came in ard 5pm, I put a call to the rider and she was going to Akoko from Magodo phase 2, think thro if I should take my chances and the need to get home a happy soul, so I check ETA and found out by 6pm I'll b dia and if I can't make it home that evening, I'll pass d night at a friends place ard Lagos mainland... Immediately I dropped her, I set destination trip and a trip of 1.3 surge with 8min ETA came in from oweh street Jibowu going to magodo phase 1, I don't think it took 3 mins to get to PU Got dia and this girl came out from a salon, ask me to park well cos she is making her hair and what's left is just for them to deep it in hot water, then pack d hair, I should please just give her 10 mins. Who goes me? On surge and card madam take ur time, no problem. I didn't know they were 2 girls, it took them 45 mins to finish what they r doing, what really got to me was when I sight them from the rearview buying small chops, I was just boiling inside like "abi this girls they craze or they just don't understand the intensity of what they are doing, after checking map, our best bet is 1:19mins to get to magodo and they are still doing this rubbish, ohk! Madness will meet nonchalant today". As the hop into the car, that proudful "Sorry oo driver", me: I'm not going again, I need to cancel this trip, I'm just waiting for you to get in so I can explain that lockdown is 8 and this is too 7, I have a home too or will I pass the night at ur place? Riders: Ha! Oga please don't do this, we book you because bolt will close the app once it 6, how do u want us to get home now? Me: how is that my business now, u girls acted like u just don't care atall, look at the time, if I drop you now and got caught on my way home, am I going to call you, I'll pay 10k to police on a trip of how much ( I'm just looking for a way to make money off d situation, but my church mind won't let me)... I let them b and drove them to there destination, their thank you was the most humble one I've ever received in life they just stay humble throughout the ride despite using long Ikeja route to beat triffic and lockdown time, they didn't even bother to ask questions (They won't like to alight half way)

I tell you. Riders didn't get that mail about turning AC off. I wonder why they won't inform them.

InfinityEstates:
Till now, I doubt if Bolt sent any mails to riders concerning Covid-19 protection tips like riding with the air-conditioning turned off. Bolt is just like the typical Nigerian company to say the least. They care only about their profits and nothing else.

Na to restart trip when you come back. But if waiting time is getting longer, I look for another ride.
Never allow riders turn you to mumu with their waiting time or rerouting trips.

olaoye15:
Then, how to you estimate the waiting time? Abi you dont charge for waiting?

Wow. Nice investigative journalism. The Cable no dey fall hand.

Guys please which other document does one need to upload when doing re-inspection apart from the inspection document? E be like sey these Bolt staff no dey get things right.

Is the block threshold no more 7k?

pope191:
Please someone should help me with process of transfer to bolt, I'm owning them 4800 and they have placed me on card only, unless I lower d debt below -3000. Pls, I beg... I go out with mat on a regular day, I don't want to add pillow to it. Thanks

Olohun maje. The one I rented apartment for sef with basic things I regretted it.