A netizen has taken to social media to complain about the ‘exorbitant’ rates charged by ride hailing company, Grab, for a trip from 9A Boon Tiong Road to 449 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.
The fare which was quoted by Grab at that point of time was $20.30, with a surge arrow shown in the pricing.
The drop off time shown was between 3:48am to 3:57am, which seems like the netizen was attempting to book a car at about 3:20am.
The netizen then says that he chose to rent a BlueSG to drive in the end which only costs half the price at $9.36.
He also suggested that everyone should learn how to drive now to save money.
Here is the post by the netizen
“This company is charging so ex just from Tiong Bahru to AMK…so I decided to drive instead using BlueSG and it cost half the price only… I think we must all start to learn how to drive already in order to save $$$”
Netizens’ comments
As usual, everything on social media are subjected to comments and criticisms, here are some of the comments from fellow netizens:
- You pay this additional price in grab for insurance, convienece, for lesser stress and to give others a living.
- It’s not safe to think rental cars cheaper when and if you have not driven for quite some time ..The traffic rules forgotten and maybe caught on camera.. fines …and will be more expensive in insurance if car damaged. Just an observation..
- Your logic simi or what sia. U pay for a service to drive u there n from the screenshot its currently experience a surge pricing, there is a GRAB discount coupon for CNY to offset the cost. U can choose to take a meter cab also what or take public transport.
- Come on it’s 3 am in the morning and even taxis also has surcharges after 11pm so up to $26 for PHV/taxi is quite normal, yes rental is cheaper base on your attachment but that’s to your destination, not forgetting you have to return the car to the place that you drive off if your intention is to drive home so car rental doesn’t serve the purpose, there are always other options, you can either wait till 6am to catch the first public transport service home or you can walk home if you can’t part that $26.
- I have stopped using all PHV platforms. The surge is crazy. I remember once I tried to book one from Harbour front to Yishun, the fare from GoJek was $65, and Grab was $48.I took a normal Taxi, and cost me only $26.PHV is for convenient sake, but its no longer cheaper compare to normal Taxi, at time, much more expensive.
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