Uber drivers don't get to accept or reject rides based on destination or cost. All they know is the pickup location of the passenger.
You really have to go through a lot of contortions to defend Uber on this one. Remember when Best Buy created an entire shadow web site just to keep people from looking up prices in the store? Maybe not illegal, but not a great business practice.
> Remember when Best Buy created an entire shadow web site just to keep people from looking up prices in the store?
No, because they never did that. The explanations that came out ten years ago made sense, about different regions having different pricing structures and the national price not always matching in-store. One spends different amounts to retail items in different areas of the world. That was a Consumerist/Gizmodo/Connecticut hullabaloo over nothing, which continues to this day at pretty much every retailer I can think of. I can totally understand an in-store kiosk showing in-store prices, and there are more non-nefarious explanations for the entire scenario than nefarious. I say that disliking Best Buy.
Take gasoline, for example. Notice it's cheaper when you cross an arbitrary governmental border? California into Nevada is my favorite. Notice Chipotle, hell, Taco Bell is cheaper (sometimes >20%) in some places than others? It's all the same issue.
I was unclear. When I say $X I don't mean a flat amount per fare. (You are correct in that regard.) I mean an agreed upon payment formula of $y * miles + $z * miles = $X. That formula is not secret. And does not contain $fare as a variable.
Why? spcelzrd talked about how uber drivers don't get too choose on each specific ride, and that's true. But that's besides the point: they are playing something like an iterated prisoners' dilemma with uber; but they are free to take their business elsewhere, if uber 'defects' too much.
You really have to go through a lot of contortions to defend Uber on this one. Remember when Best Buy created an entire shadow web site just to keep people from looking up prices in the store? Maybe not illegal, but not a great business practice.