Posted by KRICO on March 25, 2001 at 19:38:40:
In Reply to: What's up with taxi drivers charging $7? posted by batmanrules69 on March 25, 2001 at 18:22:18:
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Guys were gettin' stung for 7 dollar taxi rides 4 years ago, so this is an old ploy. The advice below, to negotiate the price BEFORE gettin' in is the way to go. I don't know of a cabbie down there who doesn't speak "business English"...so just tell'em, "Five dollars, no tip..." and see what happens. 90 percent will just walk away from you...10 percent will probably go for it. It you say, "Five dollars and a one dollar tip...", 90 percent will go for that deal, with no further quibbling. I had one guy give me a ride to the border for 4 bucks, even after my favorita told me it was impossible to get a cabbie to do that. I told him I'd give him two bucks more the next night. He was waitin' for me out in front of Adelitas..."You remember me?", he said. I gave him his two other bucks... Hell, the guy had probably been bullshitted by gringos a thousand times on the same type of deal...but he was a gambler. KRICO
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