Michelle
Committing TrustPilot FRAUD + miserable experience both ways
FRAUD!! TrustPilot FRAUD!! Read to bottom to see how. Getting picked up @ LAX- THEY tried to assign the time for my pick up. Not knowing what I was facing at the airport, I figured they must know what they're doing bcs they knew what airline I was using and how everything averaged out, right? WRONG. They gave me 30 minutes to arrive, get off the plane, get across the airport, pick up my checked-in luggage, AND get to LAX-it (even tho the website says you don't have to go to LAX-it, apparently their info is wrong or outdated, bcs you DO have to make it to LAX-it). I had a bad feeling, so I'd given myself an additional 20 minutes (total 50 minutes)- still not enough time to get across that horribly mismanaged airport. Turns out I had to stand in line to get onto a terminal bus that moved us over to where Baggage Claim was. All of which PT should've known bcs they knew my airline, etc. Meanwhile, I'm getting texts from my driver asking me where I am- NOT my fault that Prime Time doesn't schedule correctly. When I finally get to the car, frazzled not only bcs of the experience but bcs of the texts I'm getting, I am informed that other appts had to be released bcs of me (again, NOT my fault- I'd actually ADDED time to what THEY said would be enough time in order to try to AVOID this very situation) and I should be very grateful that they didn't just cancel my ride and charge me a second time to make another appt. Returning to LAX- turned out I was ready earlier than expected, so I tried to change my appt time. The system said that bcs I was in a 6 hour window, I could only make it 1 hour earlier. Fine, although it's very inconvenient to be left sitting at the appt spot for several more hours (& wouldn't be an issue with other rideshare companies), I'm not super upset when I'm the one trying to make the change. However, the appt time comes and goes, and I can't track the driver. I call "customer support" and am told that the system glitches like this all the time- turns out you can't make changes the same day as the appt (I'm left wondering about all those poor people whose travel plans change bcs their flights are late/canceled...), so I'm SOL. Not even a simple apology for the fact that I've now been sitting at the appt spot for over 3 hours and another 1 has been added, or an acknowledgement about how the app system needs to be fixed- just the attitude that I can take it or leave MY CASH. So, I wait for another hour. And when my driver finally shows, it's only so I can be ranted on for almost the entire ride by the driver about how I'm in the wrong bcs I need to take the needs of the drivers more into account. How I'm a horrible customer bcs my phone doesn't ring when it doesn't recognize an unknown, probably spam, phone number. How I shouldn't be trying to change appt times bcs they don't have enough drivers to manage difficult customers like me. (Is it really my fault that the company doesn't have enough drivers?) And my worst fault was trying to conserve my phone battery which was almost dead (I'd been using it for the first 3+ hours and then stopped when I was informed it would be another hour), so I didn't look at my phone until it was my appt time. I shouldn't have had to bcs he had the ability to track where I was. And I had immediately responded to the text I'd received from my driver telling me off for not being where I was supposed to be. I'd been there for 4+ hours, and I'd told Customer Service exactly where I was (standing next to a specific "Pick up here" pole), so I said yes I was and took a picture of the pole I was looking up at. Then the driver MOVED his car over to where I was (couldn't he have figured out that maybe the person sitting there, right next to where I was supposed to be, obviously waiting, might be his ride?), but didn't apologize for calling me out for not being somewhere that I obviously had been when it was HIM that wasn't there. I would've gotten out, but I was concerned about making it to the airport, so I just kept my mouth shut. I'd chosen this service bcs it was going to be less expensive than other rides, and I signed up for round-trip bcs it promised a discount if I did. However, after they added all the fees to the displayed base cost, it actually cost MORE. Finally- how they're committing fraud, specifically TrustPilot FRAUD- on their website, in the middle of the home page, they have a banner claiming that they have a 3.7 rating with TrustPilot. However, if you actually check the rating in TrustPilot, their score is 2.1. Makes you wonder what else they're lying about, huh? So save yourself some money and a lot of headache and DON'T use PrimeTime Shuttle.



