Hailo/myTaxi "accidently" post promo codes on twitter

El Inho

testmon15
testtues10
testwed8
testthurs5

https://twitter.com/mytaxi_ie/status/866294452071133184

Give these lads a like for spotting it!
https://www.facebook.com/goos3d/

Tell me how

Accidentally my eye.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

The new app is dirt.

Copped this myself, surprised they worked. Part of me thinks they did it on purpose.

oppenheimer1

cisk wrote: »

Copped this myself, surprised they worked. Part of me thinks they did it on purpose.

All of me thinks they did it on purpose.

El Inho

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

All of me thinks they did it on purpose.

beat me to that exact line

gabbo is coming

El Inho wrote: »

beat me to that exact line

They got rid of the hailo + option

Whole point of hailo was that you could request a taxi that didn't stink

seefin

Genuinely 10 off ?? How do you use the code? Just show to taxi driver? Or is there a place to enter code using app when booking the taxi?

uck51js9zml2yt

I put them all in. Got a taxi and it took the lowest voucher amount €5.

barry181091

Gianluca Embarrassed Lasso wrote: »

I put them all in. Got a taxi and it took the lowest voucher amount €5.

Is that not because you put it in last and it automatically 'chose' that one. You needed to retick the 15 euro one I believe!

yannakis

Thanks OP!

barry181091 wrote: »

Is that not because you put it in last and it automatically 'chose' that one. You needed to retick the 15 euro one I believe!

Yeah, that's correct :pac:

seefin

Please , anyone let me know how to use voucher codes.. was going to walk this afternoon to get train but now may take taxi if for free. Do I need to have credit card set up on the app in order to use? Or can I just tell taxi driver the code and he'll deduct?

uck51js9zml2yt

barry181091 wrote: »

Is that not because you put it in last and it automatically 'chose' that one. You needed to retick the 15 euro one I believe!

I had the 15 euro ticked.:(

seefin

Sorry but can anyone let me know how to use the code? Do I need to set up credit card in order to use my voucher? I usually just pay cash

seefin

Sorry can anyone let me know how to use the code?do I need to register a credit card and pay using that? I usually pay with cash

Creamy Goodness

Follow this guide except use the codes above.

yes you have to register a credit card. this is how these apps work so you don't have to worry about having cash. it's also how they justify themselves to investors "we have x million active credit cards..."

Tinie

Can you use the vouchers if you say "pay with cash"?

seefin

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Follow this guide except use the codes above.

yes you have to register a credit card. this is how these apps work so you don't have to worry about having cash. it's also how they justify themselves to investors "we have x million active credit cards..."

thanks for that !!!

oppenheimer1

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

All of me thinks they did it on purpose.

Still giving away almost €40 worth of vouchers for any business is very unusual, the naming of them is very DEV sounding too.

TallGlass

cisk wrote: »

Still giving away almost €40 worth of vouchers for any business is very unusual, the naming of them is very DEV sounding too.

Has to be done on purpose. As you even said it sounds to Dev to be using on a live production system. I'm fairly sure that they have test systems you know, for testing things like this.

I think there not getting the reach with people swapping over. I haven't and don't plan to just yet. Perfect time now to try the other Apps, why they changed the name is beyond me.

Chardee MacDennis

TallGlass wrote: »

why they changed the name is beyond me.

because they became a part of the German MyTaxi group so they had to transition to their tech and branding.

TallGlass

Chardee MacDennis wrote: »

because they became a part of the German MyTaxi group so they had to transition to their tech and branding.

Fair enough so.

https://www.facebook.com/mytaxiIE/posts/1414453835265251:0

Creamy Goodness

They're seeing how much press the original photo got and riding on the success of that! They were too clear in the original shot for it not to be intentional.

I'd love to see how many sign ups they got today.

Tar.Aldarion

Cheers! Pity they are up so soon.

Sappy404

Gianluca Embarrassed Lasso wrote: »

I put them all in. Got a taxi and it took the lowest voucher amount €5.

Dang, I added all of them at once. Shoulda just added the Monday one for now, I'm assuming? It expires today.

phunkadelic

Sappy404 wrote: »

Dang, I added all of them at once. Shoulda just added the Monday one for now, I'm assuming? It expires today.

You can tick the voucher you want to use, it'll have a green tick on it. By default it auto selects the most recently added voucher, which would be the fiver for people that added them in the order displayed.

seefin

Woohoo just saved 12 euros.. thanks!!

uck51js9zml2yt

phunkadelic wrote: »

You can tick the voucher you want to use, it'll have a green tick on it. By default it auto selects the most recently added voucher, which would be the fiver for people that added them in the order displayed.

i had todays ticked and it still took the fiver:mad:

Sappy404

phunkadelic wrote: »

You can tick the voucher you want to use, it'll have a green tick on it. By default it auto selects the most recently added voucher, which would be the fiver for people that added them in the order displayed.

Hmm. tatranska said he had the €15 ticked.

vg88

got 15 off today by ticking it

Sappy404

moloner4 wrote: »

got 15 off today by ticking it

Had you added the others too?

Pelvis

What happens if I used €13 of the €15 voucher? Is that the whole voucher gone?

vg88

Sappy404 wrote: »

Had you added the others too?

yes

seamus

TallGlass wrote: »

why they changed the name is beyond me.

They're building a cross-European brand, and it turns out that "Hailo" means nothing outside of the UK and Ireland cos it's an English pun on words. The Irish CEO was on the radio talking about it at the time.

Maintaining multiple brands for the same product is difficult and it also means that when and Irish person went to Berlin, they wouldn't automatically recognise/trust the "MyTaxi" brand, and vice-versa.

bk

seamus wrote: »

They're building a cross-European brand, and it turns out that "Hailo" means nothing outside of the UK and Ireland cos it's an English pun on words. The Irish CEO was on the radio talking about it at the time.

Maintaining multiple brands for the same product is difficult and it also means that when and Irish person went to Berlin, they wouldn't automatically recognise/trust the "MyTaxi" brand, and vice-versa.

Uber, Google, Hoover, * etc. mean nothing too! Yet they are now world wide brands.

Mytaxi is such a boring, Germanic style name IMO. Hailo was interesting and like the above could have become a widespread brand with the right marketing.

Uber - Is an actual adverb, but not widely used and nothing to do with Taxis.

Google - Is a play on the word Googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Not that most English speakers would know that, never mind foreign speakers.

Hoover - A brand name for vacuum cleaners that has now entered normal speech.

TallGlass

In Germany they could have kept the Hailo brand, surely in Germany it isn't going to be 'My Taxi'. Just the logo would be the same. I dunno I think they should have stuck with Hailo for some reason, even in normal conversation you'd say 'can you Hailo a taxi or I will Hailo one now', now it will just be 'get a taxi there', no mention of company names. You wouldn't say, get a 'my taxi' there would you. Same way as you'd say Google that there, there than Yahoo that for us.

I think that had to have been worth something for the company. But hey, I am not a marketing genius so obliviously they know what they are at.

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah it was way better and the app is worse now. The drivers have been ranting to me about it too. Friends of mine had no idea what Hailing was but it didn't really matter. MyTaxi is pretty poor, especially as it's something people might be saying anyway.

The Moldy Gowl

Meh. Its a taxi app. Couldnt care less what they call it.

I press a button to pick me up and he picks me up with no fuss.
I actually prefer this app becuase i am able to swipe away the notification that im in a car and dont have to be pressured into rating him like the hailo app.
I press 1 button and a taxi is on the way

Also couldnt care less if the taxis are complaining about it. Just leave me alone and dont talk to me.
They will complain about anything regardless.


Im in dublin though.

markpb

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

Also couldnt care less if the taxis are complaining about it.

Any complaints I've seen from drivers are that it's bringing them to the wrong place to pick up passengers. If it's true, that's something passengers might care about.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Vouchers now disabled altogether for legal reasons apparently.......

cee_jay

Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »

Vouchers now disabled altogether for legal reasons apparently.......

I just prebooked a taxi for tomorrow morning and voucher was still active.

The Moldy Gowl

markpb wrote: »

Any complaints I've seen from drivers are that it's bringing them to the wrong place to pick up passengers. If it's true, that's something passengers might care about.

Id hazard a guess and say thats the customers themselves putting in the wrong address.

Creamy Goodness

I'd hazard a guess of it being **** gps chips inside the majority of phones. Having worked on location apps for android and iOS there's a huge difference in accuracy. Some people will just mash the screen until something happens too

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Very strange, back again now!

This is the page I was taken to when the vouchers stopped working... http://de.mytaxi.com/aktuell

Mantis Toboggan

15 euro voucher valid until tomorrow... Eh thanks Mytaxi!

irlrobins

Used the Tues €10 one this morning without issue.

cee_jay

irlrobins wrote: »

Used the Tues €10 one this morning without issue.

Same Thanks OP!

bk

TallGlass wrote: »

In Germany they could have kept the Hailo brand, surely in Germany it isn't going to be 'My Taxi'. Just the logo would be the same. I dunno I think they should have stuck with Hailo for some reason, even in normal conversation you'd say 'can you Hailo a taxi or I will Hailo one now', now it will just be 'get a taxi there', no mention of company names. You wouldn't say, get a 'my taxi' there would you. Same way as you'd say Google that there, there than Yahoo that for us.

Plus Hailo included more then just Taxi's, it also included Black Cars service (which are licensed PSV's, but not Taxi's). In the US Uber has already expanded far beyond just Taxi's, UberPool, even food deliveries!

The future of such services are on demand self driving car services, they won't have anything to do with "taxi's", eventually Taxi's will become a quaint idea from the past like horse drawn carriages. Seems like a bad branding move IMO.

Tar.Aldarion

Used the 15 and 10 so far, great stuff

dodzy

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Used the 15 and 10 so far, great stuff

Just applied the three promo codes. 10 expires today, 8 & 5 for wed and thurs respectively also applied without issue (mytaxi).