Ripped off for a 100B on a tuk-tuk? Try a rickshaw in London..

[roamer]

Before it gets killed as being not Thai related I would like to post this anyway of how rip offs happen in other cities. Try 10,000 THB for a ride of a few minutes. See what happens when the cops get involved (zero). For all of those who say it wouldn't happen back home, well in this instance it does. At least Thai tuk-tuk drivers are less ambitious.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/27/rickshaw-driver-defends-206-one-mile-journey-because-he-was-going-uphill-5314192/

[Rumblecat]

Rickshaw's are expensive in London anyway (not normally that expensive but twenty times more than tuk tuks...) - they're novelty rides. London taxis are just as bad, they might be in uproar at Uber slowly wiping them out but that's what you get after years of monopoly and exorbitant fares and surcharges.

[impulse]

London taxis are just as bad, they might be in uproar at Uber slowly wiping them out but that's what you get after years of monopoly and exorbitant fares and surcharges.

I don't know about London, but in the USA it can cost half a million dollars for a hack license. The drivers aren't the ones making the rules and raking in the windfall. Except the ones who own their license instead of renting it from someone. They make tons of money- but only when they sell it on.

Recently, they don't even make a windfall selling them on. Uncertainty about Uber and other services has driven the price of the licenses into the dirt.

How do ya figure the cities are going to make up the tax revenue they'll be losing to Uber?

Edited July 28, 2015 by impulse

[nidieunimaitre]

I live in Thailand. I do not like to be ripped off in Thailand, so I complain about it.

I do not live in London. I do not care about rip offs in London, so I do not complain about it.

If ever somebody beats you up, just smile & be happy, and don't complain about it, because worse things happen in IS land.

[thrilled]

Why are we talking about England? As far as Thailand before taking the Tuk Tuk ride have A talk with the driver.You and him need

To agree on A price before you get in..

[teatree]

The cops could not force him to do anything legally as there are no regulations for rickshaws in London. What he did was entriely legal, albeit totally immoral.

If you look at the link it says he was trying to charge the tourists over 200 pounds. Also, in the video when confronted by the cop he backs down and asks the cop how much he thinks he should charge, he even looked willing to give back some of the 100 pounds the tourists had already given him.

[jacky54]

The driver of the one in London charging 10.000 baht for a mile was a Russian on a tourist visa working illegally.

[Jupiterjim]

The Thai TukTuk are cheap because it is a way for the criminal operators to get close to their prey.

99% of the ones in the tourist area are there to lie and cheat the tourists.

Luckily they are not too violent.