QUESTION: Dynamic or ‘on-demand’ pricing means the cost of things like Uber rides, FasTrak express lanes, or parking meters goes up when demand is high, and drops when demand is low. Do you think this is a fair way to manage supply and demand, or do you see it as price gouging?
No…. definitely gouging… should not be Fast Track lanes or parking meters at all …taxpayers paid for the lanes and parking spaces long ago – should be available to the public without charge… Uber / Lyft should be a fixed price – it doesn’t cost any more at a certain time of day to go from point A to point B
Yes. But there need to be price ceiling.
I don’t use any of them, so I don’t care, and I can’t remember the last time I used a parking
meter. I enjoy walking, so I don’t mind parking a few blocks away, where the parking is free.
So many people are willing to shell out big bucks to see a game or a concert, or for the
latest iPhone, then complain about dynamic or on demand pricing.
Airlines, hotels, restaurants and so many other businesses do it. It’s capitalism at its finest.
It’s a free country, if you don’t like it, don’t use the product.
There is not always a spot available to publically park, the point is that there should be no metered parking at all!
What exactly is your point? Dawg did not mention “publically park” I assume you mean close to where you are going. Why? W/O meters people would stay all day like the “Handicapped” with their placards. Yes some need it but the vast majority of them do not. The Meters are ostensibly to open spaces up, but Municipalities use it as a revenue generator. I say just put time limits on those spaces and make them “free”.
It was a sentence and I clearly stated “there should be no metered parking at all” point was very clear Fed Up!
“It’s a free country” does not mean what it used to.
Nope, I do not support that.
Selective pricing is selectively screwing over the customer.
After the peak hours of charging the higher price they don’t “lower” the price… it just goes back to normal where they should have left it in the first place.
Not willingly, but sometimes your hand is forced. Sucks.
You are right but your hand shouldn’t be forced in the first place!
No they collect more than enough money in taxation. Why do failed leaders keep getting voted in? They create the problems than fool people into believing they deserve an opportunity to fix the mess that they created…maddening!