Bucharest’s more expensive taxi drivers are apparently coming up with all sorts of new and inventive ways to fool people into thinking that their cars are in fact ordinary, cheap Bucharest taxis.
The trick of adopting a logo that looks – at quick glance – much like the logo of an ordinary company is old hat but remains common:
Which one's the cheap one?
The taxi in front costs almost three times as much as the one behind, yet the logos are similar.
The latest trick, which we noticed while out this morning, is this:
Not as cheap as it might first appear
Again: at first glance, all appears well. The tariff is a cheap as chips 1.35 lei. Except it isn’t.
Look again: Tarif 1 is 3.5 lei. A hell of a lot more than 1.3 lei.
Do be careful people.
[...] fact, though there are still nasty drivers out there ready to use all sorts of cunning to part the naïve, the foreign and the provincial from his or her money, the vast majority of [...]
A big relief for me is that Bucharest doesn’t have those ultra-shifty Rio de Janeiro taxis, which kidnap folks and hold them for ransom. However, if Craig were to embark on one of them, it would make my day. :]
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Nice one mate
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Wellcome to Romani!
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well spotted that man!
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Many thanks for the tip, the first I would have caught, the second one is ingenious.
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You also have to run the gauntlet at Baneasa airport of the aggressive Taxis drivers – my wife even being felt up by one fat slob who expected us to dare taking a risk traveling with the scum.
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