Another point is the emphasis of these businesses on the ineffectiveness of the command pricing method, which they consider to be in conflict with the spirit and nature of online businesses. They believe that their pricing is done with the help of technology and technological tools, and also, pricing by upstream institutions for the private sector is contrary to economic logic.
In addition to the comments that Zomit reflected from the activists in this field, in the report on mandatory pricing for internet taxis; Backing up in a long way, we received comments from users that indicated that they also do not agree with command pricing. Here are some of the comments that users have written to express their opposition to this pricing model:
– With mandatory prices, the economic situation will worsen, maybe it will be useful in the short term, but in the medium and long term, we will have price jumps and severe inflation. Companies should be allowed to compete with each other, in this way the companies themselves will make the prices cheaper.
– Why should there be a rate reduction in issues such as internet taxi transportation, while maintenance costs and repairman’s wages have gone up? This concern is one-sided, neither for the benefit of the passenger nor the driver. A driver who used to work 10 hours 2 years ago to get 10 million per month, now has to work 15 hours to get 10 tomans at best. If the rent is lower than this, he must work 24 hours a day, and he will be in debt. Fatiha should be read wherever there is a fixed rate, whether it is a house, a car, or an internet taxi.
– Even though the depreciation cost of the car is not included in Snap, I strongly disagree with the slightest interference in the market pricing. The smallest interference in pricing is a punch in the face of the price setter.
One of the Zomit users explained the logic of a competitive market in a discussion with another user and pointed out the consequences of the involvement of upstream institutions in the pricing issue:
– Brother Golam, the economy is not like this, the economy should be free and competitive. In a free economy, with the emergence of competition, prices and commissions will naturally decrease to the extent that it is economical for the business, but in a command economy, the price that the government sets to satisfy Consumers do, causing businesses to go out of business or have to source elsewhere. Let’s say you have a store and you will get 500,000 tomans for one item (including transportation and rental costs). You sell 600 despite your competitors, if you sell above 600, your sales will decrease, if you sell below 600, your income and expenses will not turn around. It is automatically coordinated everywhere and the prices are close to each other. Now imagine that in this situation, the government will come and say that no one has the right to sell this device above 550 :\ you will not have any income and expenses at that time, you will not make a profit, and in the end you will have to resort to tricks such as low sales, reducing the quality of the product, etc. .. take it or leave it, because it is not possible to pay 600 thousand tomans 550.
Of course, other users have mentioned other things in explaining the disadvantages of applying mandatory pricing for internet taxis. A group of users believe that by ordering the pricing of “yellow plates” or yellow and green taxis, they will gain more power and this will not only lower the transportation rate, but also make these taxis raise the figure.
Users say that yellow license plates are already receiving heavier fares for traveling in the city:
– If there were no internet cars, municipal taxi drivers or those with yellow license plates would empty people’s pockets. For example, in our city, which is Mahshahr, a city taxi takes 100,000 tomans, but an internet taxi charges half the price. So, if you want to put more pressure on the internet driver, you have wronged both the internet driver and the passengers under financial pressure, whose pockets are emptied by yellow taxis.
Users have mentioned their experience of using municipal taxis and in some cases have compared their performance with Tapsi and Snap services:
– Today, I posted a route in SnapZ. I have a 100 toman rush button, and it cost me 150 tomans for someone to accept it. I asked a few yellow taxis, they go the same route for 400 tomans, now what does the municipality want to do. Taxis, without Tapsi and Snap, will rip people’s skin off.
– As far as I have seen, municipal yellow taxis are emptying people’s pockets, not Snap and Tapsi. Snap charges 20 tomans, yellow taxi costs 50 tomans.
– Now, in Mashhad, the taxi meter covers about 18 kilometers and takes 45 minutes to reach Maqsir. The taxi meter charges 90 to 100 tomans, while Snap charges 45 tomans for the same route.
– One of my friends took a yellow taxi for 170,000 tomans from Damavand Street to Argentina yesterday at seven in the morning. Exactly, the yellow taxi that is 90% empty on the street is a trap for pickpocketing, compare it with the miserable price of Snap that comes to your house in five minutes and then goes the same way in the traffic for 80,000 tomans…
Some users have also avoided the future in their comments and predicted the consequences of this issue assuming that mandatory pricing will be applied:
– A few months later, the announcement of the bankruptcy of internet taxis and the unveiling of the national online taxi and the unemployment of several thousand people working in Tapsi and Snap.
– If they lower the prices, they will lose the drivers they have because with the current prices and the high commissions that Tapsy and Snap take from drivers and trips, the drivers cannot afford to work for Tapsy and Snap with the expenses they have. Right now, the drivers are all complaining. are. These words are really funny.
– Their pain is that their own taxis are also online, be sure that if the internet taxi was free, affordable, reliable, fast and versatile, there would not be this volume of travel demand. It is only the driver who is playing for free and that’s it. So, gentlemen of the council, you have lost the prayer hole, neither the bus nor the subway can answer the demand of the people.
I don’t intend to defend Snap and Tapsy, but their prices were reasonable in relation to the income of the society, in my opinion, if it comes lower than this, the driver will not spend any more, after all, he is also a part of the society, and if he sees that he does not spend, then he will not come to travel online anymore, and both sides will lose. .
Some of the comments were written by internet taxi drivers. They believe that even now, despite the high percentage of commission, depreciation, the increase in the price of car parts, the cost of repairs, etc., Snap and Tapsi fares are not affordable for them. If fares are supposed to be cheaper, staying in this job is not logical at all. Here are some of these comments:
– Only out of necessity, we are doing free shipping. By God, it was a day, so the fare was so low, I turned off the phone and went home. I don’t have any other job, it’s my first job. I swore not to get a service with a low price because it will cost you money and depreciation. If the country’s economy was right, no one would work fast, burn his car and come home with broken nerves. I myself am a technician, but everyone is asleep. If the municipality wants to do everyone a favor, it should set a fair price of 55 thousand tomans. Depreciation of several hundreds of millions of cars, my internet is more expensive, once again tell people of Salavati to work. Currently, Snap and Tapsi drivers are very cruel to them
– All these troubles are only because they want to take Snap and Tepsi from their owners and make them their own. Unfortunately, any high-paying job must either belong to the government or be a partner of the government. The drivers of this platform have problems with these prices even now and manage their expenses with thousands of punishments. Woe to the day when the government wants to interfere in something and cut off the roots of several thousands of drivers who are making a living in this internet taxi.
– Hello, I have been working for Snap for almost 3 years now. Since last year, Snap fares have been almost constant, but car spare parts have almost tripled. Right now, the drivers do not accept many trips, for example, a passenger requested a trip from No Narmak Tehran bridge at 10:00 p.m. to Sahib Qaranieh for 54,000 tomans. For an hour, the passenger requested, but no driver accepted. Now the rate should be ordered, when the driver doesn’t accept, he will get out of this job.
Despite these opinions, there are those who agree with the involvement of upstream institutions in determining the rates and fares of internet taxis. It remains to be seen what will be the outcome of the ongoing conflict between the city council and internet taxis. You can still write your opinion about this topic to Zomit in the comments section.
