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by vacri 4452 days ago
It feels like a "whoops, we cut prices too far" move.
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...or a more strategic "cut prices to lock people into our service, and then up the prices". Uber cuts the prices of UberX to attract traffic away from Lyft, Sidecar, etc, and then raises prices and relies on people not having the inertia to go back to other apps/suppliers and shop around.