Uber riders in a number of cities around the world on Wednesday were met with some stress-inducing sticker shock when noticing the price they’d been charged ended up getting massively inflated.
In what appeared to be a case of decimal points not being read by the ride-sharing system correctly, users ended up getting hit with huge fares that led to some black humor about the company’s surge fare pricing. For example, a $20.53 fare for one rider ended up turning into a $2,053 charge.
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Uber glitch charged some customers 100x what they expected to pay originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 17:49:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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