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no 90$ for an item that doesn't even 15$ to make is not a reasonable price !
Only if you care about the quality of the charger that can easily smoke your $2000 laptop.
That Kool-Aid must be delicious
My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
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Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robbing to remove valuables without right from (a place) Does not need to be violent to be a robbery
The legal definition is different than the dictionary definition. In California for example, “Robbery is the felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate presence, and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear." I know of no case holding that driving off with a person's property is "force." This probably would fall under theft in a criminal proceeding…
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Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#223Damn, one of my driver drove with my girlfriend's phone, we were waving to him but he didn't stop. We managed to call him via the app and he said he would send it back to us but never did. After that it was impossible to do anything/contact him via Uber :/
I wonder what recourse you have with a real taxi. I am sure the company contracting a taxi driver would consider firing a driver that steals your stuff. Especially after a few complaints. The main problem seems to be Uber's unresponsiveness to the whole issue. It would not be hard for them to set up some sort of system to prevent fraud and theft and to punish drivers accused of that sort of thing, and to kick them ou…
This isn't relevant. You might as well say it would be really difficult with a donkey ride, as they have no registration numbers
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#224The detective in charge of my case sent me the police report. She had contacted the official law enforcement department of Uber to get more information. She gave Uber the date and time of the ride, as well as the license plate of the vehicle and name of the driver. The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th, 2016, just after 11 PM, and the…
Individuals lie to police. Corporations merely make unfortunate errors that they are only too happy to correct now that it has been brought to our attention, sir.
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#225Can I say that I had the inverse experience where an Uber driver drove off with something that I left in the trunk of the car. He went to considerable effort over multiple calls over a few days of coordinating and attempts for me to get it back, until eventually I got it back intact. It was a first class customer service experience.
I'm glad it worked out for you.
It enforces the point of the article: your experience with Uber is entirely influenced by your driver.
If you happen to have a bad one (like the author), Uber takes no responsibility (contractor contractor contractor!), and your only recourse is considerable time and effort taking them to court.
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#226You should've added like $50K of punitive damages. The fact that they lied to the police and got away with it is crazy. You didn't even break even, considering how much time and research you spent.
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I called several attorney offices for a small claim court case (max $2k in that particular state iirc) and they laughed at me.
It's true that in small claims you often don't need one to represent you in the actual proceeding - and many lawyers, especially fairly "big" ones, would have no interest. However, retaining one to advise you on how to navigate the process, how to phrase your arguments, how to communicate with the opposing party, etc., is probably valuable even if they aren't running the case for you directly.
My company had a fairly expensive lawyer on retainer when we had a $3-4k bill go un-paid and was forced to start a small claims proceeding in order to get paid. Since we had never been through something like that we asked him for help, and he did help us quite a bit, because it became quite a hassle.
I assume that he assumed it would just be a couple letters drafted and they would cough up, but they really dug in their heels and used the dialog between the lawyers to extend hassle, and it took a bit more than a few letters. We didn't settle until the day before the court date.
Needless to say the $500/hour bill for his services pretty much nullified the settlement, and when the process concluded he politely informed us that this was a little below his scope as our retained lawyer and to gladly not bother him again with things quite so trivial and time consuming.
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could be some middle ground. That video doesn't really help his case to me. He knows the car is in the middle of the street, and not parked. The driver does start rolling while the passenger is clearly very close to the car. Even if you assume he didn't notice the car leaving, it seems to speak to the drivers intent. If the driver was intending to steal something, why risk pulling away when the owner of the bag is so…
This doesn't explain why the driver didn't return any calls. And in this case Uber could give data about that passenger to the police.
The driver might have realized (too late) what happened, if the driver noticed the second passenger left with a backpack they didn't come in with. Then gotten scared and decided to avoid calls and lie about things.
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wanted to give people knowledge of what I went through so they would be able to avoid what happened to me.
I'm very happy for your successful kickstarter and your relationship with an LoL team is quite cool, but it doesn't exactly appear really naturally in your post.
Obviously I am longwinded. I was trying to give backstory as to why I left my IT career to make hot sauce. I had a successful (record breaking) crowdfunding campaign that gave me the confidence to change my entire life.
Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
#230Fantastic writeup, thanks