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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 11:38am On Jul 04, 2023
Transmission Fluid works just fine

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 8:43am On Jul 04, 2023

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 5:50pm On Jul 03, 2023
emadamysy:
How do you confirm Tyre year

It's on the tyre, on the side marked "outside". The two numbers that are in the circle.

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 5:43pm On Jul 03, 2023
MrCarter577:


This is your NET earnings, after Uber deducted commission, not gross. You probably hit the 1M gross range with this net. Well done to you.

Yeah, I know but cos fuel is seen as a major OpEx so we all calculate net as -fuel and comms. Gross should be over 1m

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 4:55am On Jul 03, 2023
MoonlightDrive:


no longer 12 hours, car owners on the grind 15 hours, drivers on rental 18 hours, hp drivers 21 hours. The more hours we spend on the road the healthier we become.....
Even top professional athletes after some years start to experience physical decline even with all their routine of physios, nutritionist etc...
we should not over work our body.

What I posted is less than 12 hours daily

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 4:53am On Jul 03, 2023
MoonlightDrive:
We earn this much yet we invest in buying sub standard tyres.

I got burned with new tyres once. The thing picked a screw on the edge and that was it. New tyres won't guarantee that things like that won't happen. So I buy used tyres 2020 latest.

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 12:04am On Jul 03, 2023
ThatIgboBoy:
Nwanne, nobody is cheering anybody on. Rather it is a thing of concern so much effort was put in for nothing. You may have your ways. But while showing your earnings, also show your troubles. Maintenance, fuel, lastma sorting, commisions. It helps balance things out. No one can claim he drives month to month here without having issues to visit the mechanic. So make we dey chill sometimes. Everything no be fight.

I bought a tyre, 7k+1k labour.
I didn't do any repairs, not even servicing, that'll be done next week Monday.
Haven't sorted anybody or paid any fines since the last 24k I paid at lastma Iponri in 2019.

Repairs come but it should never be as frequent. That's abnormal. Take care of the car and it'll serve you. Once every year I do a full-on revamp. The only thing I don't check is bodywork. Tuning, suspension, tires etc. Doesn't mean in-between I will hear a sound and I won't check it. Also as you use a car the more you gain an understanding of it over time.

I can understand if a newbie has these complaints as it's a learning curve but if you're experienced and haven't learned how to be efficient then there's a problem.

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 8:08pm On Jul 02, 2023
Tgiirl:
JUNE GROSS EARN with 130k fuel

Net shows 184,366
Subtract fuel 130,000
= 54,000 for the whole month

And yet to deduct:
data of 6k,
call airtime of 5k,
mechanic work of 32k,
tyre gauging of 3k5 in total etc

No profit
I only worked for bolt and fuel stationšŸ˜ŖšŸ˜”

This should be a lot better. I think you should reevaluate going forward. Though I don't do bolt but I imagine it should not be too different from uber

I hope you don't take this the wrong way as I say it with no ill intentions

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 8:04pm On Jul 02, 2023
XGhost:
June gross

800k
Petrol 315k (15k daily x 21 days)

Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 8:03pm On Jul 02, 2023
June gross

800k
Petrol 315k (15k daily x 21 days)

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 6:02pm On Jun 30, 2023
sydneyboss:


Lol, easier said than done! All the best! U didn't even take note of the maintenance. Just don't rush into things and consider the possibilities.

120K weekly aside fuel. Lol ok

That should be your minimum target now you know?
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 7:52am On Jun 29, 2023
okey4reel:

You dey try ohh, so you have to wait for a whole week before you receive your funds from Uber, how do you cope? Or have they changed it

It helps you save. Bulk money comes in every week.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 9:51pm On Jun 27, 2023
unilagfreshest:
wink smiley

You know on Uber the earnings displayed is after Uber has taken their commission so the figure may not look so crazy but every 40k you see on your dashboard is 50k gross which is the new normal.
More cultured riders
More responsible and responsive company
Peace of mind
No unnecessary conditions attached to using the app
What's to miss?

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 6:19pm On Jun 27, 2023
unilagfreshest:


I drive only on uber, is there anything i am missing?

Nope
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 2:53pm On Jun 27, 2023
Godfather10:


Do you guys pay income taxes on your take home pay, they just added that to Uber drivers in the U.K., itā€™s quite a chunk of oneā€™s income.
If you donā€™t pay your license wonā€™t be renewed.
Is it the same bck home

Uber deducts taxes on every trip... I think it has been since

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 3:06pm On Jun 26, 2023
Duplik8t77:
shey na the same bolt and indrive app una dey use abi e get another app wey una dey use ni? The biz was good before the fuel price hike. I never joined in slandering the hustle prior to the subsidy removal thing.

Lol... As pearl said up there, I co say too. But jokes apart, why is cheerful, pearl and co so vilified? Sotey Dem call some people bolt agents. The agenda has always been that the hustle no make sense and drivers are broke cos they have nothing to take home after expenses

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 2:10pm On Jun 26, 2023
Duplik8t77:
before 30k was guaranteed for me daily bro. Even 40k and I spend less on fuel. Now I can gross that same 30k or 40k in a day and spend almost 35% of that on fuel. My point is no matter how we paint it, the fuel thing has largely reduced our net earning. Who cares about grossing 50k when you are just left with about 20k after expenses knowing that it used to be 35k or more. That exactly is my point

Ok... This may open up a whole new conversation because as far as they have been saying here before the fuel price hike, na doomsday, the biz don cast and all that shit. Here you are now saying it used to be 35k net before.
Point is, that your 35k is now almost guaranteed unlike before when you made that on and off. Like i said before, the earnings haven't changed or have gone up marginally.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 12:21pm On Jun 26, 2023
I honestly don't understand how this thing appears so complicated. Before 30k daily was not guaranteed, now 40 to 50k is almost a certainty. 100k net I would make in 6 or 7 days before, I'm making in 4 days now. Yeah, fuel price has gone up but earnings have gone up to so I can afford now to buy 15k daily and still bank 25k.
If you looking for even a 50% increase fares you're being very very unrealistic and even dreaming sef. It'll mess up the ecosystem and the app companies know this.

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 1:46pm On Jun 25, 2023
lanrexdo:
So you can only make x 3 of your fuel money?



I don't look at it like that. My target is to make a minimum of 20k net everyday.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 1:02pm On Jun 25, 2023
No 9 months too grin
No be today.
Dem don carry me go cold stone sha

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 12:53pm On Jun 25, 2023
pope191:


Boss buy full tank, use it till it got to the extreme end of reserve. That's how to know what is obtainable.

I still don't understand the maths between you and madam theorem. Like you deh collect money to stay for house grin anyways! Congratulations in advance. In 9 months time, we shall come visiting.

Since balablu I buy between 15 and 20k daily. This usually fills my tank, cos there's always fuel in the car. I don't allow my fuel go beyond the Ā¾ mark. Make i save my fuel pump abeg.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 12:48pm On Jun 25, 2023
pope191:


Boss buy full tank, use it till it got to the extreme end of reserve. That's how to know what is obtainable.

I still don't understand the maths between you and madam theorem. Like you deh collect money to stay for house grin anyways! Congratulations in advance. In 9 months time, we shall come visiting.

Since madam made me stay at home, she go pay sef. Na so she drag me go Epe last Sunday, took 3 of my work days, and Sundays are my best days. In essence she kept me off work for 3 days this week. Haba angry


Anyhow, this thing Is simple na. And it addresses the question of how "how much fuel did you use to make this?" that folks like to ask here.

Made 161k
Bought fuel 51k
Internet 1k5 (GLO weekly plan)
Credit for calls 1k

Net=107k
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 12:01pm On Jun 25, 2023
pope191:


OK... highly waiting to gather more info from you boss

Madam don use all her feminine wiles keep me at home today so, that ends the week for me.
She go sha add 10k fuel for lost earnings wink

Anyhow, I decided to keep receipt for fuel bought to work this week. I have 15k fuel bought yesterday for today's work, adding 10 that i charged madam, so the fuel rolls over to start work on Monday.

Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 5:58am On Jun 25, 2023
pope191:


grin Pearl no injure me with laff nah... so you can use full tank to do 120k grin omo Ɨ60

So this week I'm doing a study, I've decided to keep all my fuel receipts, so I'll put it side by side with earnings. Result out this night or tomorrow.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 5:55am On Jun 25, 2023
Pearl1910:


So all d Indrive requests to Ojodu-Berger, Magodo Phase 1, Isheri North, Opic what has been happening to them? Bro, drivers are picking and going. Some don't have a choice.
I took that trip because I had to drop something at home and continue my work. I also wanted to check if it is profitable if u stay in traffic with the new price. U know we are still establishing new facts on that based on d changes. If I didn't take that trip, my mind for no rest, as I would have been calculating how much I would have made and what I have lost. I was glad I still proved to myself that entering bad traffic is still not an option no matter how enticing that money may be. U will still make that amount or more with less flogging of the car if u just go back n forth a no traffic zone.
It would have been more than 3hrs if I didn't bypass from Ojota bridge, entered Oregun, down to shoprite, connect CIPM, forward to 1st gate, entered omole phase 2 back gate, burst out in main gate, U turn at road safety, entered the street after Bovas, exit the back gate and used inside ojodu to reach Berger.

It is not profitable bro. Last week I made the mistake of accepting a trip to crown sangotedo. Ordinarily I've long stopped going beyond Jakande unless I'm going home but I thought, Sunday, and i checked map before accepting, it said 1hr14 which was great considering I was going from the mainland (Airport Road). Na so map de update me, traffic is getting worse, small time again traffic is getting worse. Trip ended up being just short of 3 hours. Almost 2 hours from LBS to United Estate. Me and the rider wan mad.
Ended trip 11k, thankfully the rider tipped an extra 4k for the traffic and music.
Even if in 3hrs what I make is that same 11k doing regular trips, i won't use as much fuel as I did for that 1 trip.

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 11:32pm On Jun 20, 2023
lanrexdo:
No naira virtual debit card only.


Will it work for Amazon prime and apple payments. I have a virtual dollar card but these two rejected it. Amazon is asking for a card originating from here but my regular naira Mastercard wasn't accepted.
I hear providus bank cards work but na how many bank account man wan operate.
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 9:48pm On Jun 20, 2023
northbird:


Easy stuff. Open kuda account. (You can set it up under 30 mins on your phone).
Request for a virtual card. It's free. Pay them from your kuda virtual account. It's seamless. Been using kuda card payment for my services and utilities... Topnotch service for a mfb.

Abeg does this work for dollar based payments too?
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 8:41am On Jun 20, 2023
Pearl1910:


So u are one of them grin Maryland to Banana Island 3,600.

I took a lady Lawyer and a male Accountant/Auditor yesterday to Freedom way from 7up. I got to know what they do from their conversation. They were going to seal a house purchase deal in Periwinkle Estate. Trip ended N6,600 and madam say network is bad I should drop account number. I said "sorry I can't" switched off engine. Bros too tried and it didn't work. I guess GTB had issues, but I swear that's not my business. My own is, I have rendered a service I must get my money on this spot. Gone are those days, even if na Pastor or Imam. The only reason I will leave it, is if it will not pain my if the person doesn't send the money.
I said she should try USSD, she say she doesn't do USSD. I just smiled inside of me. Oya find POS and collect cash, shebi u have atm. She say her ATM no dey work. Arghaaaa ... Na me una wan chop mugu? smiley
I just told them not to waste my time please I need to be somewhere else. When she saw I wasn't going no where, she crossed road and used POS and paid me cash.

On Saturday too, one small girl from Oregun to Marriot, GRA. Trip ended 2,200 she said I should drop account, she will send later that she is in a hurry. I say I don't do that send it now. She said transfer phone is bad, I asked her knowing u can't transfer and u don't have cash why didn't u tell me to stop in an ATM or POS so u get money u will use to pay me. I suggested I take her to an atm close by, as I move small, she started fidgeting saying she doesn't want to lose her client waiting for her. I say aunty that one no concern me o, Sha pay me. She started calling the whole world to send me money that her transfer phone is bad. Even went to ask Hotel security if they have 2k to borrow her,when she is coming out she will pay them back. Security just they laugh am. At the end I just look am say I don big pass this one. And I told her u can send it later but don't disappoint your creator. Till now my brothers she hasnt sent that money.
Like I said earlier, if it's money I can't let go, I am not leaving the client until I get my alert in my opay. grin

Collect your money...no sleep!

Another reason I do Uber. My last Rida trip was pre bulaba, I needed to close but I no wan blow empty from Ikeja to island. "Luckily" Rida trip came in, Allen to lekki 4k. Transfer no go, she even offered that I take her phone as collateral sef. Fellow Nigerians, I no see that money O.
Recently I've forgone 1k9, 2k and 2k6 on Uber, i forgot to report for reimbursement. Depends on how politely you speak, I generally give everyone the benefit of the doubt. But if it's not on Uber I don't think I'll leave again, but I no fit fight sef and I hate being in the middle of a scene

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 2:23pm On Jun 19, 2023
GeneralZodd:
It's well with Nigeria

I'm guessing this is Conoil along the express heading towards 7up from berger. Their meter is terribly flawed.

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 6:49pm On Jun 11, 2023
konkoabove:

Maybe you should look at it this way, Uber is a special form of transport service that ensures the comfort and safety of riders. That special service is not for everyone. Just like flight, it is meant for those who can afford it. You want quality, you pay for it. When Uber started in Nigeria, the price was extremely high and Nigerians still used it. It was taxify/bolt that spoiled the business by introducing ridiculous prices, because they wanted to break into the market. Something they themselves are paying for with indrive and rida further slashing the price. Trust me, if all these app companies are providing vehicles and maintenance, they will be charging more than what the union is demanding and Nigerians will still patronize them.
Airlines increased flight from 35,000 to 75,000, did it stop Nigerians from flying?
If moove is managing Dru's fleet of cars, the conditions given to drivers would be softer compared to them managing their own vehicle.

Best wishes
Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 1:29pm On Jun 10, 2023
Godfather10:


KNOW THIS AND HAVE PEACE:-
Both Uber & Bolt will never reduce their 25% commission their whole business model is built on this 25% , in all the countries, that they operate in, their commission is 25%
India they have about 600,000 drivers, America Uber has about 700,000, U.K. abt 85,000, S/ Africa abt 50,000, Egypt about 35,000, Australia, Europe? In Colombia I think they have abt 90,000, Brazil almost the same, these are multinational companies, Nigeria they have abt 30,000 drivers.
I donā€™t see them making an exception for Nigeria, itā€™s not gonna happen.ā€™the number of Nigerian drivers on their platform is minuscule.
As a matter of fact when the the 30,000 drivers license is divided btw both Apps l think Bott has 2ā€17000 and Uber 13000
What Nigerian Uber or bolt drivers should concentrate on is is fares, that can be increased if enough pressure is applied.
E-hailing usually show flexibility on fares , then the unionisation of their drivers, they will fight tooth and nail to prevent this from happening, their claim is that those driving for them are partners and not employers.
However, In the U.K., they give holiday pay, pension etc, but only after being forced to do so by the courts.
My candid opinion is for Nigerians to fight for increase fares,
E-hailing averagely provideā€™s a good service, Itā€™s relatively safe, in some countries they are the biggest employers of labour & the job is very flexible, averagely one makes more money then white collar jobs or office earners.
Agitation for increased fare should be perhaps 50% max,
To ask for 200% means you are worse then those that removed the subsidy in the first place,,
Rent for vehicles should also go up to btw 40k and 50k per wk for owners.
Drivers should not be selfish, knowing drivers, they will want all the 200% increase for themselves alone nothing for owners.
May God bless your hustle folks, but be sensible in your request for increase in fares.
50% is best or you will all lose customers.
I think Nigeria has the best educated representatives of E-hailing around the globe, well done and keep up the good work

You have touched on some of the issues that they're not looking at. They think these arbitrary demands will not have a knock-on effect on the whole ecosystem. Raise fares arbitrarily and shrink the customer base. Your 10 trips of 2k each become 5 trips of 3k each. Raise fares but landlords must not raise rent.
Regulators would not also look at protecting customers?
Reduce commission but continue to provide services to keep the app running. Is it only drivers that have been impacted by increased operating costs?
People talk like they have no idea how businesses are run.

Also, Rida and InDrive came in to fill that gap bolt and Uber have left, make Dem use those two nau

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Business / Re: If You Are Uber Partner In Lagos, Please Share Your Experience Here by XGhost: 1:08pm On Jun 10, 2023
Also, for all the cry about reducing commission which you people think is the golden ticket to your riches. It is not. This is what I have saved by paying 5% since Tuesday. 10k+
Yeah it's extra money, but in the grand scheme of things it's nothing.

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