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Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr
I said so many times since the day i joined sbf. Never trust supirs. Yes....even if hes a chinese! Never trust them 100%. If really need their service then bopian engage them. Try asking bros here to recommend a reliable driver.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
The gravest mistake/s i have seen above is the overly-reliant on taxi driver
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I apologize if I will be too hard, but it is important to understand mistakes, those we did and those others did, to learn and to avoid to repeat the same in the future.
This case is clear. The taxi driver understood
immediately that he was dealing with an easy prey and then started to eat and take advantage, even exploit the tourists. The wolves select and chase the small weak prey, not the big buffalo who kicks back.
Immediately when? When he took the people to another hotel instead of taking them where they requested him to go. Imagine the scene: they tell him to go to A, and he, pretending to be No.1 expert in Batam, takes them to B instead.
Tourists, instead of being firm and demanding to be taken where they indicated, and then sending him to hell paying 50k for the single ride, showed they were unsure, shy, trusting the
untrustable.
That was very good for the driver. He understood he was dealing with naif people, weak in his hands, and that he could have done literally ANYTHING without they would complain.
And so he did. All the reported story is a sequence of incredible exploits. Not only he exploited the tourists, but he also went to his friends boasting how capable he is in dealing with tourists.
I am saying all this not to blame the poor guy, who was not afraid to report the bad adventure and understood he did all things wrong, but to alert people who go to Batam (anywhere in the world, actually) to not repeat similar mistakes.
By the way, nobody will ever convince me that a "supir" is needed in Batam.
Take a taxi (ojek if you are alone) only when you need it, and pay him only for the ride you really need.