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Review for Dan

I have never had an issue with an Uber driver until today. This was absolutely the worst Driver that I have ever had anywhere. It was a very simple drive from the Chicago Western Suburbs to downtown Chicago. My first tip off was that he parked out in the middle of the street to pick me up. Didn’t even bother to enter my driveway. He also had a major challenge with English. I asked him if he understood where I needed to go 6 times and he had a fundamental lack of ability to respond in English. Despite using GPS, he managed to take the wrong direction 3 times. He ended up taking I294 toward OHare vs 88 to downtown Chicago. When got near OHare he exited at Balmoral and told me he was turning around to take 290 to Chicago. Sure, that makes sense, let’s just go back to where we started and waste another 25 minutes. I told him to take 90 into the city and that seemed to only confuse him even more even though the exit for 90 was less than a mile away. I had to provide him turn by turn directions to reach the entrance to 90 despite the fact that he was using GPS. I was 30 minutes late for my meeting and didn’t have the time to share with him how unsatisfied I was with his service. The real kicker came when I received my receipt as I was charged for all the extra distance we traveled that was due to his negligence and inability to use GPS and understand my directions. If this had been my first experience with Uber, I would never use them again.

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I love this app however…….

I love using Uber however regardless of how much I have on my voucher a lot of the time it is asking for my debit card, when this is going on I have over $100 dollars or more. Also the thing is this it isn’t like the voucher is not covering every single ride. I was told this is a glitch. Well the thing is I cannot afford to have this as an ongoing issue due to the fact that is how I am utilizing disability services. One time I was waiting on a ride and someone else took it. There was a time this month a driver canceled a ride even though I was already in her car. I get that may sound odd but I would have not canceled the ride being that I was already picked up. After the ride showed up as canceled I had noticed some of my voucher was already taken off. I have my county board of developmental disabilities giving me vouchers every month. When there is issues with these vouchers it causes me emotional distress. I have contacted the board, I have contacted the company that supplies the vouchers to the board and they have said reach out to Uber about a lot of issues. I am worried that at some point that if the vouchers are not going through that is going to screw me and a bunch of other people over. I do not have an option to get my driver’s license ( long story). I get that there is only so much that can be done. Thank you for providing transportation and customer service.

Uber website

Not quite as user friendly to book a ride as I would have thought. For a first timer, figuring out the process was a bit of a stretch, but I have to admit my tech skills are limited. Having said that, one would think that Uber in their overwhelming need for profit would make it extremely easy for the new customer to book, get confirmation, track and have questions addressed in order to assure keeping them for future ride needs if not for a lifetime. That is how a business grows and thrives - by looking at it from a customer’s perspective, not from the perspective of an IT person setting things up with little to no
awareness nor appreciation of how does a first timer navigate the website with ease and facilitation. How many companies I wonder actually have an older non-tech individual try out their web site and critique it for ease of use prior to installing it to be up and running. For minimum expense, they could avoid the frustration, dissatisfaction, and loss of that demographic and the consequent sales. If I were on the BOD of such a company, my fiduciary responsibility would necessitate harsh words at the least for such a CEO that overlooks this, to me, obvious loss of sales. In short, I’ll try Lyft next time in hopes they are better in this regards, but I’m not holding my breath - seems like all businesses nowadays cater to IT as the first priority on this.