Ross Parker » taxi http://www.rossparker.com my personal homepage Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:32:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cross-cultural bargaining http://www.rossparker.com/2009/12/07/cross-cultural-bargaining/ http://www.rossparker.com/2009/12/07/cross-cultural-bargaining/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:30:07 +0000 Ross http://www.rossparker.com/?p=462 Via Tim Harford’s Twitter feed, I came across this interesting piece from Chris Blattman on national variation in bargaining strategies, a.k.a. how to negotiate your taxi fees. A good example of a thread where the comments add as much value as the post.

My top overseas taxi tip: When you arrive at an airport, go by foot from the Arrivals concourse to the Departures concourse. Collect a taxi there to save yourself roughly 50% of the price of a waiting taxi. (Plus you know they are a real taxi, you just saw their last Westerner fare arrive unmolested.)

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