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Old Sep 17, 2014 | 8:26 am
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trueblu
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Originally Posted by moondog
I didn't know about the tipping thing, but my one experience with 滴滴打车 consisted of me being stood up. Do you know if they accept Tenpay/Wepay?
Originally Posted by Pimevai
Also a tip for DiDi is to use the voice feature, to say where you are and where you're going by voice, like this more drivers see/hear it than those who can't keep up with the text stream. You can also mention larger tips in your voice message than the 20RMB limit, although I didn't need to tip at all.
I don't use DiDi since my spoken Chinese is awful and writing non-existant. But yes, it does accept wechat/pay (apparently preferred according to some sources!).

I am surprised, given that non-Chinese speakers make up <0.4% of the Beijing population, why there are cabs that pick up passing traffic at all these days...but in all honesty, it's been (touch wood) no worse than usual.

The additional benefit of the voice feature is the ability to really, really annoy the customer currently sitting in the cab...

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