{"id":490,"date":"2013-07-19T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:43:41","slug":"pedicab-driver-charged-tourists-720-for-20-minute-ride-nbc-new-york-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/news\/pedicab-driver-charged-tourists-720-for-20-minute-ride-nbc-new-york-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedicab Driver Charged Tourists $720 for 20-Minute Ride &#8211; NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities are investigating after a pedicab driver in New York City charged a Japanese couple $720 for a 20-minute ride from midtown to the Village, a trip that should have cost $50. The driver pointed to a $5 rate on the price board before starting the ride. Upon reaching their destination, the driver presented a bill for $520 and insisted they had to pay. The couple used a credit card, but later discovered they had been charged $720 and the driver had attempted another $616 charge, which failed. The Department of Consumer Affairs is using smartphone credit card records to track down the driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/pedicab-driver-rip-off-charge-couple-720-dollars-japanese-tourist-consumer-affairs\/1981369\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/pedicab-driver-rip-off-charge-couple-720-dollars-japanese-tourist-consumer-affairs\/1981369\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are investigating after a pedicab driver in New York City charged a Japanese couple $720 for a 20-minute ride from midtown to the Village, a trip that should have cost $50. The driver pointed to a $5 rate on the price board before starting the ride. Upon reaching their destination, the driver presented a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}