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Old 02-04-2013, 22:21   #47
Sunflower49
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Re: taxi's on strike

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Originally Posted by Studio25 View Post
It won't happen once you get to my age. I bet their decision criteria on whether to charge at the start of the trip or the end is "Can she run faster than me?"


Which he's allowed to do (legally). If you agree to conditions before the journey, including just agreeing a price, then it's a contract: At the end of the journey, that's what you pay.
If there's no contract then at the end of the journey and they try to rip you off, just pay what you're used to paying plus 50p. The fact that you've tendered anything at all means that it becomes a civil matter and the police won't get involved unless it becomes a breach of the peace.
Haha maybe-but I did have a huge bag with me (from work) so I doubt I could have bolted as fast as I normally would have done lol.
If he had have agreed a reasonable price in the beginning, even if it was slightly more than normal I wouldn't have reacted badly-I just wanted to go home. But wanting an upfront amount that we both knew was too much was just rude.
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