Uber uses dirty tricks to hurt the competition

The private transportation company Uber knows how to turn heads. And it is that not only does it monopolize pages of information by managing to get the taxi industry mad by proposing a cheap but illegal alternative in Spain, but it also carries out all kinds of unethical aggressive business tactics in order to establish themselves as a business. Something that has already been confirmed by various media and that shows the intention of Uber to manage to open a gap in the market applications transport.

This was stated by the media outlet CNNMoney, which has echoed the company's complaints Lyft, also focused on private transportation of users and whose characteristic vehicles are distinguished by dress a pink mustache on the front. And it is that they have been able to count no less than 5,560 false transport requests of their service since the month of October 2013 Requested races that were subsequently canceled before the service was provided and which, apparently, came from cell phones belonging to workers of Uber

The accusation of Lyft is most direct, and it is that it would be one more of the business tactics of UberSomething that he would have already practiced against other companies such as the New York company Gett, to which he also requested false trips that ended up being canceled before lending themselves. The curious thing about this case is that, after counting the first 100 trips of this type over three days, Uber published a statement stating thatthey would relax their sales tactics Something that, seen what has been seen, has not complied.

And these tactics are a whole wasting money, time and service for the competition While they have these false requests for Lyft and Gett services were busy no meet the needs of real users But there's more. In addition to not being able to meet the demand of those who did need a real vehicle, it also meant a cost of time and gasoline for the workers of these services.Issue that was not recovered after the cancellation of the service.

To do this, the workers of Uber created several user accounts in the applications of competing services, eventually counting, based on data from Lyft, up to 21 accounts associated with the same phone number Data that have been able to corroborate and contrast between different drivers of Lyft and that CNNMoney has not hesitated to publish . With this, and systematically, a single employee of Uber managed to request and cancel more than 600 trips in a certain period of time, causing the mentioned problems of availability and expenses for the competition.

Aggressive tactics that succeed in not only annoying the competition, but again drawing attention to Uber itselfSomething he knows how to do quite well. We must not forget that, during the day of strike promulgated by the Spanish taxi drivers, the transport company went so far as to launch discounts for its use Disrespectful tactics? What is undeniable is that Uber knows how to stand out.