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Care to elaborate?

When a client uses the app the sound of 鈥渆asy鈥� sounds off in the taxi (smartphone) thus alerting the driver that a nearby passenger is requesting a taxi. The driver then has to decide whether to accept the trip. If he accepts then he will have a connection with the passenger(smartphone to smartphone) that made the request. So as a passenger one can see where the taxi is located and the driver also sees the location of the passenger. Communication is also possible because the driver will have access to the clients mobile/cellular number.

Are the taxis that come up vetted in any way?

With regards to 鈥渧etting鈥�, taxis in Quito are registered with corporativos or taxi organizations.聽 Easy Taxi deals with drivers via corporativos and one of the requirements is a security check. As for other Apps I really don鈥檛 know what the process is but technically taxis that are registered via a corporativo are legit. Again, that鈥檚 the taxi, because for instance a driver might be part of a corporativo and drives for 12 hours a day and rents his taxi for the remaining 12 hours to another driver. That secondary driver may or may not be registered with Easy Taxi and could simply be using the primary

Can you use amazon prime for free shipping there?聽 Probably not.聽 And, does Amazon even ship to EC?

1. No
2. Yes

OrganicMom wrote:

Thanks vsimple.聽 My question "Care to elaborate?" was to the person who said they don't recommend spending more than 10 days in EC.
By the way, have you ordered from Amazon there, and if so, how fast and reliable do you find it?聽 And how expensive is shipping?

My lone transaction with Amazon to Ecuador won't be of any help because my shipment was textbooks which were heavy and non-dutiable. I don't want to stray too far from the topic of this thread but Ecuador offers residents duty-free ($3.51) shipping for shipments that weight 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) or less if registered online and handled by local post. Using a forwarding service and having Amazon items shipped this way would make a lot more economical sense.

Michael-2018 wrote:

Is Uber used there?

Yes in Quito, and I think also in Guayaquil.

vsimple wrote:

Michael-2018 wrote:

Is Uber used there?

Yes in Quito, and I think also in Guayaquil.

I can confirm Uber is in Guayaquil. I haven't tested Cabify yet. UberEats and Glovo (food delivery apps) are crazy busy in my working class Guayaquil neighborhood

vsimple wrote:

Has anyone tried Glovo ?聽 Apparently, they deliver more than just food. I was at a Sweet & Coffee, and a Glovo driver was picking up coffee and cake.

I鈥檒l share my experience, considering I used Glovo over the weekend. I was home and wanted to make a specific dish but lacked some ingredients so I used Glovo to order groceries. Using it is pretty straightforward, you input your data including address and phone number. They will text you a code to verify your number and you are all set.

So, I typed my grocery list and selected cash for payment method.

Just a heads-up, If an expat chooses to use this app to order something that is not on a聽 menu,聽 like a grocery list, be prepared for phone calls from the Glover (delivery dude) as they may need clarification on some of the items. The dude called my twice to clarify some items.

So, if an expat is not comfortable communicating in Spanish, perhaps order items that are on a menu like a restaurant menu or items that don't require much elaboration, like a 6-pack of Pilsener 330 ml bottle/can.

The cost for delivery was $1.90, and the scheduled time for delivery was 25-35 minutes, but the Glover arrived much quicker.

RobinJoel wrote:

I have not used an app to get a taxi in Ecuador, yet.聽 But I do have a related question.
Sometimes I want to "rent" a cab for a few hours while shopping or just going certain places.聽 I have not done this yet because I don't know about leaving purchases in a cab while not in the cab.聽 How do I go about getting a trustworthy driver?聽
Right, now my husband and I fly back and forth from the USA so we don't have one or two trusted drivers.
Advice?

There isn't a formula to develop a mutual trusting relationship. For me, before I owned my own ride it just happened, there was one driver that i felt comfortable with for several reasons including him owning his own car. This is important because it's his car and he has complete control of the hours he works.

From there more trust was gained, but I have never did what you're proposing which is shopping and leaving stuff in the car. My idea of trust is using the taxi to take me from point A to point B safely. I still do so even with a car, when I know i'll drink more than a couple of beers.

To build-up the relationship, give a driver the best fares like airport and take it from there.

vsimple wrote:

Youtube has definitely changed their algorithm and it's much better now. I think the new algorithm roll-out for Ecuador was recent. But, it's a much more pleasant experience.

The music Youtube selects is much better IMO and they probably changed things to compete with Spotify. I haven't used the Youtube premium app yet which I think it costs $5.99. That's about how much Spotify costs.

Yeah, I don't know what's the difference yet between the free Youtube and the paid Youtube. My concern is data usage because playing music videos can eat into ones data. Whether it's in a car or on a mobile, so I don't know how that works, yet. Maybe, there will be an option to just play the music without the video to minimize data usage.

Paid YouTube Premium in the USA deletes the commercials.聽 Premium also allows you to listen to videos without watching videos (which reduces data consumption). Not only does it come in handy while driving, I like to listen to meditation videos in Spanish. But I can't watch those hour-long meditation videos. The youtube music app is included, as well as Google Play Music, which in my experience has better integration with Google Assistant/ Google Home than Spotify. A few months ago the youtube music app wasn't working in Ecuador. Is it working now?

I made the mistake of canceling YouTube in February and switched to paid Spotify. I discovered the problems with its Google Home integration quickly-- there's a lot of database errors. Spotify is fine on desktop. But I asked Google to play an album by The Cure on Spotify and instead she plays Pink Floyd? I asked for the soundtrack to "The Royal Tenenbaums", she plays 2 songs from it and then starts on other songs not actually on the soundtrack. There are many other examples of odd screwups, mostly playing the right artist, wrong album. Not a good integration

I would say the correct song/album hit rate was聽 60%, I expect like 95%

Anyhow, I've been in Florida for the last week. One of my first tasks was to cancel Spotify and resubscribe to YouTube premium and included apps, and then connect google home to google play music, deleting Spotify.聽 My girlfriend called me yesterday from Guayaquil to tell me Google Home was behaving as expected once again.