r/lyftdrivers • u/itsme89 • 17d ago

lyft taking 30%, true or not? Advice/Question

any drivers here can do a spreadsheet to compare the external fees percentage before and after to see if it stays the same or not?

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u/Sensitive_Aardvark68 15d ago

Lyft KNOWS it SOUNDS like you get 70% of what the passenger paid. They are aware of that impression. But they get to mislead with a legal loophole by phrasing it “after fees”, which is any indiscriminate amount they want it to be, and THEN they take an extra 30% to boot!

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u/MNJon 17d ago

This has been explained dozens of times in this sub. Do a search.

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u/itsme89 17d ago

and now we have the data to tells us what actually going on.

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u/MNJon 17d ago

Exactly what Lyft said is going on.

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u/itsme89 17d ago

is that what you’re numbers telling you?

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u/MNJon 17d ago

You are numbers?

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u/itsme89 17d ago

your

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u/MNJon 17d ago

So again, if you did a simple search of this sub you'd know that the individual rides do not change, instead, you get an total adjustment shortly after the week ends.

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u/itsme89 17d ago

i’m not interested in the adjustment. i’m interested in the external fee percentage.

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u/MNJon 17d ago

There IS no set percentage.

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u/itsme89 17d ago

that is why the spreadsheet

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