GRAB Taxi has shot himself in the foot

• Ct2220

  14 Jun 14, 15:39

  GRAB Taxi has shot himself in the foot

  Last two weeks many GRAB Taxi Pax Complaints that It start having problem to use GRAB Taxi Apps to GRAB a cab, some start switch back to using CDG Apps and Surprised that now CDG Apps is much easy to get a cab now !

  From my understanding (Ah Wah dun laugh hor, My under still can stand hor).

  There are many Night shift Blue boy start switch back to take CDG call then GRAB Taxi.

  Because from June start GRAB Taxi have a very surprise change in thier GRAB TD Bonus scheme.

  From $38 Cash and / or $20 Credit for 20 Jobs/Wk or $45 Cash for 24 Jobs/ Wk to $20 Credit for > 48 Jobs/wk.

  For a night shift driver want to get >48 Jobs per week, it means very day need to take at least 7 Jobs.

  And Most of Night shift call are long distance job. So it is almost mission impossible.

  I am a very constant GT and ET call taker, every night I took about 4~6 GT call and 2~3 ET call (Off course for TC call, as long as available, I sure take, to support 我家阿花�!).

  So for > 48 Call per week for me is 包死。

  Don't UNDERSTAND want GRAB Taxi make such a stupid move.
  (But I suspect there maybe a change in GRAB management team,
  some GREAT Genius maybe FT just take over and try to save cost.)

  GRAB Taxi are depending on TD to make they Great,
  and now the Blue boy start swap back to their company call,
  next is the Pax will oso start go back to CDG Apps,
  then 。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

  
  
  

• bowah

  14 Jun 14, 15:55

  Aiyo, tai kor...up till now you still can dun understand lah...you, being a GM before should know what is carrot and stick in business. To be fair, grab and easy taxi is a cheap start up, no need fleet of cab, no need much operation, just set up a matching programme and let the server runs, just maintain the servers and hope it dun get hack or burnt out. First come the carrot, for the past month, grab and easy would not have make a profit, they are merely just breaking even, this is a strategy to lure people like you and my ex chief and so on to join them...be merry..all huat..JBL. Now come the stick, ah...collecting profit time, this will be more like their long term strategy. And Cabbies like my ex chief who are easily addicted to all these stuff including smoking, sex and hp..can now hardly drive without grab or ez calls. As said, there is no free lunch in this world hor
• OptimalTrans

  14 Jun 14, 17:03

  it is a test of market torrence

  very new business, new ideas, new pricing.......etc, got to go thru this, getting the balance right.

  The art of Balancing between giving and taking.

   

  You found that is mission impossible? when there are "hero" still taking the challenge, perhap still promote for them (like your sifu) and they still meet their desire quota, there will always new challange waiting ahead.

  And there are ways to project it as mission possible, just push a few "hero" up, rewards them and publish to the public.............

   

  Just like i feel the new rental of $130+ is mission impossible, but those "hero" helps to make it possible and created a waiting list for the rental, there will only be $140+ rental or more waiting to come.

  As of me, taking it as mission impossible, will only be projected as.....negative lar, lazy lar, can't catch up lar............... whatever bad you can think of.

  And end up.......... a failure.

   

• j007

  14 Jun 14, 18:31

  business that can't make $ will up lorry very soon, especially here in SG

• hammerhammer8888

  15 Jun 14, 00:13

  People also need to earn mah.

• Taxilim88

  15 Jun 14, 00:20

  Aiyo unker CT, u must know any business that gives out generous bonuses freely is not sustainable lah...

  They start out wrong strategy lah....Bonus once given, cannot cut back or take away one lah....

  Like that $1 chicken rice...still around anot?

  Somebody and something must give way one lah....cannot all live happily forever...

  But TDs all smart one lah...Quickly get all the bonuses and free handphone...after that, go back to CDG lor.....

  To them,it's GrabTaxi...to TD, is Grab Bonus...

• Reliefdriver4u

  15 Jun 14, 08:57

  GrabTaxi raises more than S$18m in latest round of funding

  Published: May 29, 6:41 PM

  SINGAPORE – GrabTaxi announced today (May 29) that it has raised more than US$15 million (S$18.8 million) in its latest round of funding, led by Silicon Valley-based GGV Capital.

  In addition, Mr Jixun Foo, Managing Partner in GGV Capital’s Shanghai office, will join GrabTaxi’s Board of Directors, GrabTaxi said in a statement.

  The taxi-booking mobile app developer said that besides GGV Capital, other investors include Vertex Venture Holdings — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings — and Qunar, the Nasdaq-listed Chinese travel search site operator.

  The company said the new capital from the Series B round of funding will support its “aggressive growth” into new cities in South-east Asia and extend its market reach through regional driver loyalty and retention programmes.

  GrabTaxi currently operates in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore, with more than 20,000 taxi drivers registered with the company. Its app has been downloaded to more than 1.2 million mobile devices in over 15 cities in the region, according to the company. CHANNEL NEWSASIA

• Reliefdriver4u

  15 Jun 14, 08:59

  Grab taxi cannot always give give give right ?

  If not need another round of funding soon ...

  18 mil very fast use finish you know ...

  TD can suck up $$$ very fast one

• bowah

  15 Jun 14, 09:33

  TD suck here and there...also must drive on..gentlemen, whatever new apps or calls or pick and go..it is only a motivation factor, like it or not, we have to be frank..driving taxi alone cannot make one a rich man, many a times, TD fail to factor in the amount of energy, time and work they have to put in just to earn that few bucks. As said, no cunning, then dun do business, grab is a business, and in business, all shareholders want to see is good return, the figures in the last bottom line must be in blue without bracket, the longer the zeros, the better, and grab must make sure that number continue to growth at the EXPENSE OF WE...the taxi drivers. We are by right, their customers, by left, their labourers.
• Alvin87a

  15 Jun 14, 09:36

  got address....i very happy liao lor!!!

   

• Keepthechange666

  15 Jun 14, 09:39

  Aiyo, if call system can cari makan in Sg, Than our taxi woes will be solve liao.....

  A lot of problem already seen by some taxi coy since day 1, we TD are knn one.....

  Can only say, all this apps have not realize the "power" of taxi drivers......

• Alvin87a

  15 Jun 14, 09:39

  how to tahan everytime give $....

  hahaha...GT boss become taxi driver better!!

   

• bowah

  15 Jun 14, 09:39

  I got a bottle (2 cans) of Guiness stout, enough liao...be simple..life will be better
• Reliefdriver4u

  15 Jun 14, 10:37

  Ya if everytime give Anthony Tan need to ask his grandpa for funding leow

• bowah

  15 Jun 14, 13:34

  Toony tan lah
• Reliefdriver4u

  16 Jun 14, 10:04

  

• Reliefdriver4u

  16 Jun 14, 10:12

  As you can see , through many interviews and reported

  many TD are happy , even with no incentives but with destinations , even Grab taxi charge levy is ok

  So for Grab taxi, now its payback time

• Ct2220

  16 Jun 14, 10:21

  Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:

  As you can see , through many interviews and reported

  many TD are happy , even with no incentives but with destinations , even Grab taxi charge levy is ok

  So for Grab taxi, now its payback time

  He ! He !  He!

  Just wait and see.

   and 

• bowah

  16 Jun 14, 17:58

  Unker CT..you got share in grab taxi seibo?? tiam advert for them..if earn, tiam tiam tio ho..no nid to advert one lah...who dunno how to grab??
• Ct2220

  16 Jun 14, 18:11

  Originally posted by bowah:

  Unker CT..you got share in grab taxi seibo?? tiam advert for them..if earn, tiam tiam tio ho..no nid to advert one lah…who dunno how to grab??

  哎哟哟�阿�。。这个�。。。。。。。

  

• bowah

  16 Jun 14, 18:14

  But ta ker....in a cunning sense, like my ex chief tactics, we are suppose to condemn grabtaxi making it looks lousy, then those who view it, will avoid grabtaxi, then we can have more to grab mah..tio bo. I mean looking from a taxi driver perspectives, but from a shareholder perspectives, it will be in reverse.
• OptimalTrans

  28 Jun 14, 00:01

  condem is to avoid competition

  promote is to distract LTA attention

  wow...... very the Conspiracy

• bowah

  28 Jun 14, 10:00

  Tio mah, remember, not cunning, please dun do business...taxi driving consider a small business mah..tio bo
• OptimalTrans

  29 Jun 14, 23:27

  these are small flies theory

  acceptance and practising of such will very fast up the lorry

   

  big flies never think they are begin cunning

  they only have strategy, with the support of many ideas to fullfill their accomplishment

• bowah

  30 Jun 14, 08:47

  Up lorry cases I seen are across the board, people from all walks of life. And the true is everyone of us, at the end of the day...must up the lorry, that is the true, nothing but the true, and if you are able to comprehend it, you will be more enlightened. To be more precise, in my line of work (casket), those die of natural old ages not included, those premature death, like died at a younger age are mostly Business peoples like owners, bankers and directors, taxi drivers up lorry prematurely is as normal as other peoples from all kinds of work.