Jan 24th 2014, 21:51, by Dante D'Orazio
Uber has a knack of ruffling a few feathers, but its latest move is downright dirty. Documents provided to both Valleywag and TechCrunch are said to show that Uber staffers in New York ordered phony black car rides from a competing service only to cancel them later. The ride requests were made over the last few weeks, and it seems the purpose of the shady move was twofold. First, ordering and canceling dozens of rides wastes drivers' time and it makes it harder for legitimate customers to get a car. Secondly, the reports say that an Uber employee then reached out to the drivers and offered them incentives — like cash — to defect.
The competing service on the other end of this incident is called Gett, and it started operations in...
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