Taxi Bromsgrove to Solihull £70!!!!

Baggieboy_2

Black and Gold taxis - 8 seater - £70!!! vent over

No, not over. God - how can that be justified? £70!!!

dealer_wins

Cheaper to walk isnt it?

Baggieboy_2

Yea but longer, colder and more boringer. But seventy quid? seventy?

MamaMoo_2

I can get from the city centre, doing an 8 mile journey, for £12 in a normal taxi seating 4. For a car seating 6, I couldn't get a quote under £24! For heaven's sake, I can get a taxi for a 21 mile journey, with the same company, for £28! Not a bad profit for the driver.
I get some proper numpties these days though.
"taxi from Asda please. We have 2 adults, a baby in a car seat, shopping and a pram" cue the arrival of a car with a tiny boot, which is filled with a gas tank... "That's ok" says the driver, I'll put the pram across the back seats" Took us a while to point out that we were actually planning to put a car seat in one seat and I was going to sit in another.

Or there was the driver who made us pay up front (despite us making the same journey every week), had a broken back window (kept sliding down. Could only be put up again by pulling it from the outside. It was p*ssing down with rain) and then, to top it all off, rather than driving out of a car park correctly, he just went up the kerb, over the path, and onto the main road.) At this point, we got out.

And then there was the driver who thought that "do not take the motorway, go XYZ route" meant, "go on the motorway, get lost, add 7 miles to the journey and then charge me for the privilege!"

The cheek of them amazes me.

MamaMoo_2

Oh, and there was the taxi driver who took my husband on a 10 mile detour.
Or the one that wouldn't let him out of the car to fetch the money from me (who was standing in the porch with the cash! Perfectly visible, but I was in just a towel as my husband had to get me out of the bath to grab the cash.)

Foggster

I would have taken that quote to be a "dont want to do it mate"! Not a good business approach but all the same its such a stupid quote its not even rant-worthy! LOL

Azari

Are all the local taxi drivers in the employ of your mother in law?

Azari

MamaMoo wrote: »

cue the arrival of a car with a tiny boot, which is filled with a gas tank... "

Perhaps he was going camping that weekend? :rotfl:

pmduk

Unless it's a regulated fare, they can charge what they like. It's up to you to shop around. Caveat Emptor. But I accept it's a pain when you just want to get home. I hope you made him give you a receipt.

paddyrg

There are many factors including time of day, distance, number of people, etc. Fact is as you're going out of area (different taxi companies work in Bromsgrove and Solihull) they can't get a return fare, so you pay for both directions - and with so many seats it's an unusual vehicle, etc.

A taxi for just me at an unchoice hour from Wolverhampton to Kings Heath cost me over £25 over 20 years ago, so by comparison you're onto a winner.

shaymenRup

If its private hire (ie booked on phone not flagged down) then you negotiate the price BEFORE you set off.

If its hackney carriage then the fares are set by the council and they are not allowed to rip you off. They have a taxi meter so you know what the fare is.

If you have a receipt get it checked by the hackney carriage office of your local council.