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An Uber support experience

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Re: An Uber support experience

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I would have gone to such lengths as well - beats being berated by taxi drivers for taking short trips.

In SF, Uber drivers are virtually indistinguishable from taxi drivers.

Except for being easy to hail, guaranteed to take card, and have easily accessible online receipts. So easily distinguishable.

Re: An Uber support experience

#32
post #25

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I would have gone to such lengths as well - beats being berated by taxi drivers for taking short trips.

In SF, Uber drivers are virtually indistinguishable from taxi drivers.

That doesn't make any sense. Uber drivers know where you want to go before they even accept the fare, don't they?

Re: An Uber support experience

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post #25

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In SF, Uber drivers are virtually indistinguishable from taxi drivers.

That doesn't make any sense. Uber drivers know where you want to go before they even accept the fare, don't they?

No, they don't. Even if you enter your destination, it isn't shown to them until they swipe to accept your ride.

Re: An Uber support experience

#34
post #27

Pro tip when dealing with this level of ineptitude is to cold email a few execs (guess their email from linkedin). Normally the problem will filter down to someone with the intelligence to calmly read through the thread and diagnose the issue. Frontline support at many customer facing SV companies are not correctly trained to escalate and technically troubleshoot. Developer support tends to be a lot better.

This is a time-honored technique. Consumerist coined the term "Executive Email Carpet Bomb." http://consumerist.com/2007/05/11/how-to-launch-an-executive...

Re: An Uber support experience

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post #25

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I would have gone to such lengths as well - beats being berated by taxi drivers for taking short trips.

In SF, Uber drivers are virtually indistinguishable from taxi drivers.

I agree.

In the east bay the taxi experience is terrible, though.

Re: An Uber support experience

#36
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have gone to such lengths as well - beats being berated by taxi drivers for taking short trips.

In SF, Uber drivers are virtually indistinguishable from taxi drivers.

In the sense that both drive cars, perhaps.

In the sense that they never fucking come, taxis are nothing at all like Uber.

Re: An Uber support experience

#37
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In SF, Uber drivers are virtually indistinguishable from taxi drivers.

Except for being easy to hail, guaranteed to take card, and have easily accessible online receipts. So easily distinguishable.

I wasn't clearly enough distinguishing the drivers and the service: in their parking and driving. Thought I did have an Uber driver who had their seat slung so far back and low that my girlfriend and I had to sit on the same side of the back seat.

Re: An Uber support experience

#38
post #20

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There's also more than just phone. Could use the full credit card #. They can also send the device a push notification with a security token and have the user reset password with it in lieu of an email based token.

Could use the full credit card #. I doubt they're storing that.

You're likely right, but they could always get crafty with Braintree APIs: https://developers.braintreepayments.com/ios+ruby/reference/...

Re: An Uber support experience

#39
post #27

Pro tip when dealing with this level of ineptitude is to cold email a few execs (guess their email from linkedin). Normally the problem will filter down to someone with the intelligence to calmly read through the thread and diagnose the issue. Frontline support at many customer facing SV companies are not correctly trained to escalate and technically troubleshoot. Developer support tends to be a lot better.

This tip is the equivalent to "Dial 0 when you reach an IVR." Having been in Support in the past I can tell you there is nothing worse than having someone email some random Exec because you're not getting anywhere with Support. While I'm not trying to defend what happened here, I can certainly empathize. I liken to someone who has worked as a Waiter/Waitress. When they go to a restaurant they'll have more empathy for someone than someone that hasn't done that job. But yeah, they should have noticed what the problem was in a better way and, if things were escalating, either pass it off to someone else or let their Manager know things we getting heated.

If you really want a "pro tip" about Support, ask your Rep to inform their Manager. If things aren't going well you have every right to keep going up the chain of command. If that doesn't work, keep going. Somehow you'll reach the right Exec instead of just guessing.

Re: An Uber support experience

#40
post #22

My guess is that the OPs email address soft-bounced 3 times and was added to Uber's suppression list within their sendgrid account (they are a sendgrid customer). There's probably no way for Uber support to see what's happening in their sendgrid account and this was probably failing silently. Uber's app was attempting to send the password reset email, but your email was on the suppression list and delivery was stoppe…

I had this exact same issue, and I was using a gmail address. This occurred multiple times for me.
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