LIVIDZX wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:11 am Utter pricks, just doing his job.

I have about 5-6 tuk tuks outside my apartment none of whom feel like going via meter and cost double what I pay via pass app - not to mention having to negotiate a price for five minutes before we set off. So I always go via pass app now. I get dirty looks and comments every time I walk past the them, quite unnerving but what do they expect me to do, pay double for the fun of it?

The days of attempting to charge foreigners obscene amounts are over, they just need to deal with it.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:51 am

SternAAlbifrons wrote:

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:30 am Some of them are fine if you get to know them but a lot of them are overcharging twats.

Yeah, that is their job, out there overcharging the twats.

I take a tuktuk only a small handful of times per year, usually to the airport. I count one tuktuk driver as a friend, and no one is saying they can't be good humans or anything. Away from the riverside they're usually fine. However, the business model was flawed from the start: sit around and do nothing for 20 hours per day, and then try to gouge people for short trips around town. As usual with Cambodia, you quickly get all the copycats so it didn't take long for every corner to have ten guys, thus making it 22-23 hours of doing nothing, then trying to compensate by asking for a higher price because they didn't have any customers that day... Well, it's the 20th century so things have caught up to them. They should just be thankful they didn't have to buy taxi licenses like many had to do in the west.