₦airaland Forum

northbird:
VERY true.
Drivers bear the 3% increase. It's not passed on to the riders at all.

Dem don subtly increase commission to 23%

Grossed 23.7k and bolt commission was over 5k, that one never pass 25% commission?

No one can tell me otherwise that this new 3% booking fee from bolt is not a scam, this is a deliberate and subtle increment of their commission without you really knowing or coming out to fight, they're disguising it as 3% booking fee for riders, meanwhile its the drivers that bear the brunt of it all.

We all know that starting and ending a ride on bolt irrespective of moving from that spot gets you 600N. But how come that 3% booking fee didn't get calculated into the 600N, later on the driver gets to pay for that 3%.

Be like bolt don overgrow wings oo.

Felicity0001:
Only honest people and sincere people share both good and unfavourable experiences.

Most of us here share experiences that will make people sing their praise. So don't expect to hear bad experience from them here.

Spot on.

Ghost1994:
Old people are babies… and being old doesn’t make anyone smart or intelligent… I understand your point but all I know is you can still manage them.

Just take things easy oh… Winter is coming whereby everyone will be dragging 1 rider

Safe drive

Lool, I understand you baba mi, I hope say winter time, everywhere go soft for me, so I no go dey road dey drag 500 naira trip with everybody.

mejai:
We shall all get there o... I mean the age.
And Gentlelife50 no go like this.

Lol old age no be automatic sense oo.

thoollz:
Guyman u did well, let's reason this thing sef, were they expecting you to move that far without clicking on the start trip button? Once you are in my car, it's automatic I start the trip from my side, Nigerians just like trouble sha.

Upon say I arrived when they entered my car oo, and they saw notification that I have oo.

Barbiturate:
You're wise and very matured upstairs.

I'm sorry sir. You were on call when I started the trip. I started at so so time. Case don finish!

I'll say it again; they will give you shit because they feel they are paying for your service......just be humble! Sorry goes a long way! Pride destroys a lot.

It's not about maturity, I have the right to decline you service if its not worth it, you can't mess with me mentally and expect me to continue with the trip while also accusing me of fraud. One day you go chop exactly same breakfast and you'll narrate it here.

Ghost1994:
Bros with this your explanations, in my own humble I don’t think those guys have done something really wrong that will warrant you dropping them at the express.

Have encountered several riders that’ll claim that oga I don’t know when you start your trip with attitude but the best response from my side will be: sir/ma seems you’re carried away with your call/whatever he or she was doing before I started the trip.

I’ll keep my mouth shut till we get to the final destination to avoid any arguments.

Most of the times we drivers put emotions and overreact based on the experience we encounter with probably the last rider or frustrated Lastma.

All in all, we’re here to make money but you lose 8klm from where you picked them to the express you dropped them off

In all fairness, I was VERY RIGHT to drop them, when that talk started about not showing them, the other mumu said, "sebi I wasn't on call, how did I not see" and point plank I told him, if you weren't keenly following your friends' conversation you would have heard me, as i don't need to shout, I lifted up my phone, showed them at the back and explicitly told them I'm starting, but the problem the other was talking about on phone thats making him agitated was logistics, I sure wasn't the one supposed to pick them up as the got messed up by the company's driver, but baba wan transfer aggression ontop my head, I stood firm and ordered them down. They were saying all sorts of rubbish, that it's how we do and whatnot

8km? If it was about that, na to dey jump Okada and bus go visit my friends for abule egba and ogba cos I no wan lose fuel,

I don't want a situation where after calming them down and continuing the trip, and the fare is a bit different from the estimate we go start wahala, so I cut it short immediately, I can't asslick cos they're old men in their late 40s to early 50s. If they were younger, I would have put them through, make another person teach them abeg.

They felt entitled, and I said, not in my goddamn car.

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My experience yesterday! While I was angry there wasn't surge and na small 9h trips popping upandan, ended a trip on Osolo way and immediately a 1.6x request to V.I popped up, sharperly I turned, called the man to know his exact spot, but the way he replied on the phone was somehow rude, I ignored cos 1 million this December.

Got to pu at chicken republic, he was busy checking out my car, plate number and all, I was just laughing, he hopped in with his friend, both putting on senator wears, I dey happy say na better people, immediately the hopped in, I swiped arrived, then proceeded to find my way out to the road. As soon as I positioned on my lane I showed them at the back that I'm starting he trip, but it seems they were both carried away cos the orderer was on a call and ranting like mad. But I'm less concerned cos my own na kowope.

Immediately we climbed the oshodi bridge and right in the middle baba just said that "Oga you didn't even show us you were starting the trip" my head rang aloud immediately, Omo I change am for am oo, told him if he wasn't aware when the app told him I've arrived in the car, baba still dey talk say I should have told him. I say no be you go spoil my day, oya I'm not going again, come down biko, we were just passed lasma office to the front, baba say I should take them to bus stop, I say No, I manage take dem a little before we climb the bridge, dropped their senator wearing asses in the hot sun and zoomed off. Went straight to gbagada, and made a comprehensive report and still told them they didn't pay before bolt go block me unnecessarily. Omo mad people dey Lagos oo, but the next rider was so full of joy, a lady and we gisted till we got to her destination at ikeja.

Ejoor how much is renewal of car documents now, cos I heard there's no grace period whatsoever. My documents expired yesterday.

Jones90:
Good evening all. Please i urgently need your advice. I'm about joining bolt hustle. I just collected my temporary DL today. And i collected loan from three different source to buy 07 Honda civic (Nigerian Used). But my problem now is that i just learned driving and I'm totally new to Lagos roads. I'm gonna depend on google map for directions. So please i really want you all to advice me as:

1. Someone that is new to driving (though my hands are kinda of strong)

2. Someone that is new to uber/bolt hustle. I want to know how i can maximise my time for a better profit.

3. Someone that is new to Lagos roads. How reliable is Google map etc.

Please i really want to achieve something through this hustle and more importantly to be able to clear the debt on my head. If there's any ant group, i wouldn't mind to join. Pls kindly assist me with any advice you know will be of help. You can DM me too if you don't want to drop it here 09019412826... Thanks in anticipation

I saw this post on Facebook, immediately I saw "ANT" I knew this person was from nairaland.

Okafor's law will definitely come into effect the third time again.

davit:
Not sure about being geo-fenced. I see them on mainland wella these days.

Istill saw one innoson korope for oshodi yesterday sef.

Felicity0001:
Chia! No wonder I no dey c Abule Egba trip again when I won go house... Chai!!! All these childrenses haf spoil my market.

Maybe I'll move to My chevron apartment now

Lol. No ne my fault oo

dTransporter:
@Pearl1910

Abeg, what's the best place to position to get trips going towards Gbagada or Ajao Estate from the Island around 4-5PM? . I've tried position at Awolowo Ikoyi, but I mostly get trips to Surulere. Yesterday, I suffer for inside traffic. I no sure say I won near Surulere for now.

Any idea biko?

Just set destination to abule egba, las las you go see ikeja or airport.

Flamemignon1:
I'm not talking about his tweets. I came across his IG and in a now deleted post, he said it was a prank and it was for Halloween

Go check his Twitter handle bro, and see for yourself.

Flamemignon1:
The blogger gave you an half baked yellow journalism and you thoroughly ingested it

Lool, please say something else bro, you're the one defending a lie, the blogger is actually right, go through his TL to see the truth.

Flamemignon1:
He actually did it as a joke, he's straight and this was for the recent Halloween

Please show me where he did it as a joke, I'm waiting... someone has accepted who he is and you're here defending what is not.

davit:
I laugh so Tey my son con dey ask me Wetin happen dad.

Baba mi, most churches na advanced business centres oo.

BAZ001:
Pls what’s d code to sub 40G for 5k on mtn
Or mtn dey scam me ?

But you must be on betrayals. The sweetest part of this plan is that you get 13k for calls, which lasts for a week though after the 5k subscription.

Pearl1910:
Which plan is this Sir?

You need to be on mtn beta talk before you can activate this plan, its actually 20GB + 16GB bonus and 4GB for YouTube.

Once you've migrated to betatalk, use the mtn app and you'll see a button with Mega deal zone, check the contents and see the one that suits you, 3500 for 24GB also

deedee44:
Lollll that was how a rider preached to me from beginning to the end of trip and along the way she kept boasting that if I decided to give my life to christ she would pray with me and I would start speaking in tongues immediately.
We got to her destination and there was heavy downpour so we had to both relax in the car, because of boredom and out of curiosity I asked about the speaking in tongues again, she said she received hers on the phone (someone prayed for her from abroad) and everybody she has prayed for started speaking in tongues immediately.
Me: Oya, I want to give my life to christ
Rider: let us pray
She started praying and I was saying amen with my eyes open as I wanted to see how the spirit would be released
After a while
Rider: start speaking
Me: (just like that? )
Rider: it may not make sense but just open your mouth and speak
Me: I opened my mouth it was amen that was coming out
Rider; put more effort
Me: I just closed my mouth, no more amen sef
Rider: (after noticing I no longer give a damn) you will still receive it, maybe yours is slow. I will be calling you everyday

I am still waiting for the first call

This same thing happened to me when I was invited by a lady to fountain of life church's crossover service.

Pastor Taiwo say everyone should begin praying in tongues, Omo! Na party scatter oo, whether na curse sef i don't know, I was just mute, till dey announced that if you don't know how to pray in tongues please come to the altar, na so this girl push me go oo.

Getting to the altar different pastors were in charge and when it was my turn he asked if I was born again, I said no, he asked if I would like to be, told him I'm not sure. Baba proceeded to ask me to repeat some words after him which I did, after the recitation, Baba hold my head, blow breeze and said I should start speaking in tongues, omo I bow my head, smiled and started saying names of football clubs in Czech Republic Poland and Lithuania. Next thing baba said was that I know you don't understand what you're saying right now, but when you've joined a ministry we'll cultivate it for you.

Felicity001:
Pls is anyone among us using spectranet network to work? Thid MTN is killing it for me... Within 2weeks I've exhausted almost 4k on data alone. What is going on menh... Not that the data is even reliable self...

I'm really tired with MTN abeg

I dey sub 40GB data at 5k for a month, I expend within 22-25 days on mtn, I dey watch Facebook and Instagram videos at home like mad, when I'm working is when I expend less data, if I'm idle na to dey stream matches direct to my TV oo.

Ogudu police station are the worst set of policemen you'll encounter, coming from ojota to link the bridge towards the island they're stationed in the ramp extorting young guys, coming from Berger also, on that same bridge when there's a little traffic, they'll start looking into vehicles to find prospective clients to exploit, not once or twice I've witnessed them do this.

Even if you maneuver and escape, they'll follow you with their hilux van and pursue you like a thief, as they know there'll still be traffic upfront. They're all a bunch of thieves.

I believe their dpo is in on it too. Cos those people are unstoppable.

YeyeGbami:
Na bolt fault, dem suppose allow drivers update profile picture if na once in a year. My picture from 2017 still dey there.

Some people dey wonder if na me sef.

Hope you know say you fit change your picture sha.

Pearl1910:
Tojahh na Veteran...it can't happen to him. Not even for that kind of long trip.

Looool.

Pearl1910:
Lolz...table has turned o.
Except you calculated the wait time and refunded the Rider, then, u committed fraud.
Frankly, I don't believe u forgot to start your trip, this was an intentional act for whatever reason, Or do u feel ur fare was fair, correct and accurate??

Can happen to anyone though.

tojahh:
Pearl you were right about this argument. If you start the ride at the middle of the trip, the app gives you calculated fare based on kilometer driven. This was a trip of about 1:25mins I did yesterday without starting the ride.

I'm still trying to figure out how he's right.

Godfather10:
Finally you guys who used to be embarrassed being a UBER driver are now seeing the benefit that E-hailing has been to a lot of us, I used to work in a nice office in London b4 as an Estate manager also wearing shirt and tie myself. earning about £650 per week, it’s not until l joined E-hailing Uber and l started making £1250 did my finances balance.
Nowadays I just target a £1000 a week which is very fine and not to hectic, the plan is to relocate bck to Nigeria.
Anyway folks, we are getting to the end of the year and if you all start from this wknd, l will like to encourage you guys to put your backs into driving, so that by the 31st of December, you should all make 2.5m with 2m to invest,
With a 2m investment and properly you should be making abt N150k monthly.
Wishing you guys all the best, my own target is to make £15k with £11k to invest, I will be working 7days a wk btw 10/12hrs every day till the 1st of January then spend 5months in Nigeria.
All the best guys, Felicity no slacking o, no discouraging, l knw you very well,
If l can do it we all can do it, God bless you all.

This ember months don different from every other ones, drivers dey see minimal trips and riders don't even bother taking uberbolt when there's a surge, indriver to the rescue with shifty fares. And God help you in this hot sun without tinted glasses and mortuary standard AC.

That side you are, there are limitless opportunities to explore, and uber pays very well, so you can make a target and are sure to meet and exceed it.

The market climate here has changed drastically, ember months are cash cows and used to be very lucrative as everyone prepares themselves towards it, but we're in October and still looking forward to the ember months. Be like say we don use ember months for May-July like dis sef.

Going by this atrocious analogy, no one would have friends, as no one has the same income, even the ons earning same salaries.

Na make we just dey alone this woman want, be like say she's sėx deprived, make dem give am one guy wey don nack jekomo with other roots make he nack her wella. Maybe her sense of reasoning go fit come back.

Aganju849:
The part of e-hailing nobody talks about.

God help you if your mechanic happens to damage another component in the process of repairing the initial job order...and this happens more often than vehicle owners realize. Most times you leave the workshop with a different problem than you got there with in the first instance...kinda similar to the way you ended with a 50k repair-bill while working a three-thousand-naira trip.

This is just the truth, initial fault was transmission oil shortage, I was perplexed cos I changed it earlier this year. After buying of the oil, it was still leaking, and radiator fluid was drying up too, we discovered the radiator was bent and pipe was broken, had to change the radiator too. I wan cry.