Fight the Reverse Auction
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Have you ever accepted a Trip Radar offer then face the familiar "All requests are taken, please try again." and then see the same trip come back but for less? Sometimes happening several times, until it falls below your threshold of profitability or someone takes it? That is the Reverse Auction in action.
Every time more than one driver accepts an offer, they flag it as "taken" then recycle it for less, until only one driver accepts it. But if no one takes it at the lowest price, they will increase the offer a little bit (never as high as the original offer) until someone does take it.
They have already set the trip price for the pax in the rider app, now they are trying to increase the margin for every ride, with this bullshit practice. And I think the best way to get the message across to entice their riders to directly complain to them.
When you see an offer that has clearly been cycled back for less (and less), go ahead and accept it. Then wait 90 seconds to 2 minutes and cancel the ride. The rider sees their ride was assigned a driver and that the driver canceled while en route to the pick up point. Forcing Uber to start the whole auction over (even expanding the radius for available drivers) for the same ride and eventually pissing off riders enough to complain. Or even hop over to Lyft to see if they can get a ride faster.
Nothing says you have bad business practices like customers that votes with their feet.
Posted Jan 27, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC