car2go = car2gone
- The short-term vehicle rental company “car2go” announced Friday it’s ending operations in Chicago at the end of the year.
In a post on its website, the company said it was pulling out of Chicago and four other North American cities after it “underestimated the investment and resources that are truly necessary to make our service successful in these complex transportation markets amid a quickly changing mobility landscape.”
And what did that cost entail?
- It is an app-based service that lets users reserve rental cars, drive them then leave them at designated parking spots. Rides cost between 29 cents and 39 cents per minute.
The company suspended services in Chicago earlier this year after a rash of vehicle thefts.
In April, 21 people were charged after more than 100 car2go-owned Mercedes-Benzes were stolen in the city.
Oh yeah - 100 vehicle thefts of high end cars that resulted in something like zero prosecutions. That was a winning business model for sure.
Labels: crime, dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
83 Comments:
Don't tell me.
Long haired hippie CEO.
This Company sucks!
The predators in Chicago strike again. It's nearly impossible to sell these ruffians and their families anything that you can make money on because of the added security costs, theft and destruction. But don't worry, Groot will fix it, she's going to dump investment money into this losing business proposition because she's a true believer. She's like Robbin Hood, take from the working families and give to the impoverished areas. A fine idea. Too bad it's been tried and tried, and tried again. But, SHE'S never tried it! She's the smartest troll in the world, she'll make it work. You'd better hope this idiot is a 1 term mayor.
c2g, now rebranded as Share Now (aka Sick Fucks)
will pull out (no pun intended) of 5 major markets:
Austin, Calgary, Portland, Denver, Chicago
Nice job Kim Foxx. Way to bring down the hammer.
This is likely a pump and dump company.
They know it can't succeed, but the insiders get rich
in the meantime. I'm tired of these "fake disrupters"
with shaky business models preying on the investment
public which excels at naïveté.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness."
---- Alan Ginsberg
Idiots. Any insurance company that would insure these fools are idiots also.
Why operate a business in a city where a criminal justice system doesn’t support a safe environment for a business to operate in? For a city that is cash strapped, one would think the political leadership would make it known to the criminal justice system to support businesses so revenue is cut.
“underestimated the investment and resources that are truly necessary to make our service successful in these complex transportation markets amid a quickly changing mobility landscape.”
First off, sounds like a bullshit statement. Second, as in the situation where target in 006 closed its doors due to sticky fingers, and again... sticky fingers ended up closing Walgreens or CVS in the west side shithole on Pulaski and I think Madison... can’t remember. However I do remember the alderman and the people’s ministry of the Media say my god, where will I shop, I won’t be able to buy fresh fruit cause they done closed the sto up.
Aldermen and Larry please chime in, if this keeps up the citizens can’t divy or electric scooter to the polling station during the winter of 2020 election
When are CEOs in Chicago and Golden Corridor areas of the suburbs going to bankroll a law and order State's Attorney and Sheriff stop letting them keep hurting your companies?
Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
Un-FUCKING-believable
Daimler AG owns this shit show!
Hire off duty coppers to protect those cars ! Reminds me of the Ford
plant, management leaves the cars in a parking lot with keys in the
ignition. Real smart proactive management , now they have security
after multiple vehicle thefts. Dummies !!
NYPD Off. Brian Mulkeen, age 33, working 47th Pct. Anti-Crime, shot and killed in the Bronx near the station house at Laconia Av. and 229th St. Rest in Peace.
Shooter also deceased.
Thank Kim Foxx for this business leaving. Their cars get stolen and Foxx's "restorative justice" let's them keep on stealing.
If you don't think like a crook you can never do good in this lawless corrupt shithole. The first thing you have to do is kiss the ring, then donate a considerable sum of money into one of these gangster's campaign funds.
I guess they were told to leave town since they weren’t making enough money to pay the required bribes
car2go: Go right into the chop shop...
The company was lucky to recovery the vehicles in some working order.
This is why we cannot have nice things...
"complex transportation markets amid a quickly changing mobility landscape"
Ha! You mean Sanctuary Cities filled with thieves and other hoodlums?
car2go will resume service in East St Louis with far more profitable results to be certain.
They should oubliclly announce the racial statistics of these.car thefts and applaud Kimm Foxx for doing nothing. Way to go, Chicago!
They have not recovered the vehicles yet not leaving Yun till end of year. We'll there goes a major bribe source no campaign donations for anyone. Oh well the next fool will be there shortly. P THE barnum had it right there is a sucker born every minute.
Cars2Go and they went. What's the problem?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Nice job Kim Foxx. Way to bring down the hammer.
9/30/2019 12:37:00 AM
On my arrests, Car2Go refused to come to court & prosecute the offenders. Not much we could do.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Thank Kim Foxx for this business leaving. Their cars get stolen and Foxx's "restorative justice" let's them keep on stealing.
9/30/2019 02:31:00 AM
Crimesha says you have to steal at least 200 cars to be charged in Crook County
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Don't tell me.
Long haired hippie CEO.
9/30/2019 12:08:00 AM
-Shut your face, hippie. You say "hippie," man? Ain't been no hippies for centuries. You been freeze-dried or doing time? Gunny Highway, Stitch Jones Heartbreak Ridge
More like, "complex demographic markets".
They forgot to mention that one of their rental cars was just used in a homicide the other day on the west side.
Ralph Papa Thorson Says:
It didn’ take long for LLLL, (Little Leninist Lori Lightfoot) to start driving out businesses from Chicago. This could be the final kiss of Death for Chiraq, especially if the tiny Troll is re-elected for a second term. Then as retired White Sox Announcer Ken Hawk Harrelson always said, “it’s ova”.
When is the AG Kwamie Raul going to investigate the SA's office??
N-E-V-E-R!!!!!
Can I replace car2go with GROOT2GO?
Seems like an improvement...
10-1 go fund me posted for PO injured on south side last week.
Donate and help support their family. He has two kids.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/CPDAdamWazny
Look at the s car go
Vague discriptions again.
Groot, please make Chitcago safe again from the "mobility" of those leaving the county jail.
The Beast and “the community” strike again.
But Groot says “the community” needs all these extra resources due to “poverty”
So they stole all these high end cars due to poverty.... yeah, yeah that’s the ticket.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Thank Kim Foxx for this business leaving. Their cars get stolen and Foxx's "restorative justice" let's them keep on stealing.
9/30/2019 02:31:00 AM
Kimmie and her “social justice” and “restorative justice” catering to and pandering to “the community”
Obviously this company didn’t do their research ahead of time.
Hard lesson learned.
they are closing it down in other cities too.
it works pretty well in europe but for some reason in the US it just is not popular.
OT QUESTION: I don't understand how old cannabis-related arrests can be expunged once the law changes. If it was law 5 years ago and you broke that law then it is what it is. If this is true than why is the contrary NOT true? I do something stupid that's NOT a law then two years later the bill/law gets passed then I can not be charged? So how can the opposite be true?
I saw personally 5 of their stolen cars on the street when they stole 100 of them. They didn’t want to prosecute so why recover their cars for them. It’s about time we as a department take a fucking stand.
“...it “underestimated the investment and resources that are truly necessary to make our service successful in these complex transportation markets amid a quickly changing mobility landscape.”
– the best part...’quickly changing mobility landscape’.
Wuz’dat...another way to say sparse opportunities due to economic divestment ?
How will the Right Man for the Right Time™️ prepare to handle the quickly changing mobility uptick in car jact’ings with the absence of all those Marcedes Benzs’
Wonder what the incentives package Rahm offered, received, spent before he too also abruptly left town. The honeypot pot must have run dry and the high likelihood of higher Groot tariffs and fees along with those specialty Groot City stickers.
Bet that Rahm’s Uber portfolio goes up another 20% with the anticipated increase in users.
"100 vehicle thefts of high end cars that resulted in something like zero prosecutions"
Chicago values
People were charged? In that case did the ASA Kim Fox drop charges?
Correction:
Make that: ALLEN (Ginsberg)
*****
What were they smoking?
This is a JOINT venture between Daimler and BMW.
(Can things be that bad that you hope some of the
riders buy your cars?)
most of the brand new cameras in forensics put into service this year DOWN for repair and no contract for these repairs to ever happen. Old cameras back on the shelves with newer ET's trying to figure out how to use them. Most of them should be destroyed. Business as usual in the land of forensics. Just use your body cameras and process your own scenes. Might as well disband this unit it's useless
Lol, just imagine the millions of liberal dollars invested in this nonsense.
The only product that would turn a profit in Chicago would be 9mm ammo and body bags.
They have a better chance of profiting in Haiti.
See ya Al.....
NYPD Off killed by friendly fire (2 shots) while wearing
bulletproof vest. Officers fired 10 shots total.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dallas-man-went-back-bed-after-killing-burglar-police-say-n1060086
Now you can't shoot a burglar without being charged with murder unreal Kim will do the same to you too!
Ray Fuckin Charles could have seen this coming.
Lori again continues her enabling and appeasement of the permanent victim class. The newest gimme is no fees for stolen library books. She has to leave office as soon as possible.
Fuck them, Divvy also
OT... Commander Hanna came to roll call today and gloated that today was her last day as commander and that she had been promoted to Street Deputy... Wow
When opening a business in Chicago, one must always factor in the impact the “community” will have on the bottom line. Rule #1 is that the “community” and “teens” will never be held accountable.
Secondcity check out nadig newspapers and our old asshat friendly aldercreature arena
http://nadignewspapers.com/2019/09/30/former-alderman-john-arena-hired-for-planning-department-job-despite-city-hiring-freeze/
But but what about community investment. Now what is community gonna do for free Rides? Bet car jacking spikes soon.
I had 3 separate felony cases involving their cars. Took them over a month to get back to me with any info on each case.
You can't legislate against God's plan. Poverty and charity. These godless corrupt leader's are so full of themselves.
...no fees for library books....
FANTASTIC!!! can't wait to stock my personal library...see a later barnes and noble , amazon suck it
Dumb Liberal idea to start with...
Good riddance!
We Are All Replaceable
2Bad. The community is going to miss the freebie.
"....the patron has the option of returning any “good condition” copy of the book he or she was fined for and the replacement fee will be reversed...
oh yeah---gonna spiff up my library and give the city "replacement" books
I dunno man, it looks like a really great business model from up here on my throne of cynical engineer snark.
1. Move-order 100 cars from production at cost (car2go is owned by Daimler aka Mercedes). Throw in a couple of Beemers to make it look legit.
2. Get all sorts of pork and favors from various left-wing oligarchs in exchange for parroting the collectivist flavor of the month. Pollution problems? Unsavory recall? Nothing a little virtue signaling can't solve.
3. Insure the cars at MSRP, and laugh evilly when urban culture does what urban culture do.
"Lori again continues her enabling and appeasement of the permanent victim class. The newest gimme is no fees for stolen library books. She has to leave office as soon as possible."
An overdue book fee is kind of like a tax for services rendered. Lori seems like the fiscally forgiving sort, so is it okay if I just skip paying city taxes for a few years? Asking for a friend.
yutes are why you cant have nice things
Good riddance!
$1.2 million in stolen vehicles + zero prosecutions =skyrocketing insurance costs which leads to zero profitability (if not negative) due to the other costs on and off the books for dealing with the Shitty of Chiraq
Changes, changes, changes! Unbelievable changes at that! Looks like the lie-tenants rule the roost! This Department is such a joke!
Ernie Cato Area North Deputy Chief
Gloria Hanna- Street Deputy
Yolanda Talley- Commader 015
Eve Quarterman- Commander 003
Sean Loughran lateral to Special Functions
Brendan McCrudden- Commander 020
Karen Kronos- Chief IAD
Well there goes another payoff opportunity. Thanks community.
Has anyone else noticed no court notifications lately ? Oh ya nvm I don’t shit anymore that’s why my bad office.
Went to the library the other day and noticed the shelves were empty. Asked the clerk and she said that the books were being checked out and not returned. How could this be????
Konow again avoids Patrol.
Lost another one. Not the last one.I
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Don’t forget about the murders committed in them. Particularly one on the west side, this week.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT... Commander Hanna came to roll call today and gloated that today was her last day as commander and that she had been promoted to Street Deputy... Wow
9/30/2019 05:12:00 PM
Was she in full Mr.T garb with her bangles and costume jewelry??
C’mon Groot. Stop this nonsense.
Launch Eddie and start dealing with a lot of these completely incompetent “bosses”.
Cost of doing business? No, it's the cost having a race based restorative justice system. All businesses like this will soon flee. The democratic way.
I rather watch the Flintstones then drive a Car2go !
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Changes, changes, changes! Unbelievable changes at that! Looks like the lie-tenants rule the roost! This Department is such a joke!
Ernie Cato Area North Deputy Chief
Gloria Hanna- Street Deputy
Yolanda Talley- Commader 015
Eve Quarterman- Commander 003
Sean Loughran lateral to Special Functions
Brendan McCrudden- Commander 020
Karen Kronos- Chief IAD
9/30/2019 08:52:00 PM
As usual no 1 cares,these clowns will never get respect, "respect is earned not granted," "lead by example!"
Has Lightfoot ever acknowledged that ICE goes after illegal, undocumented criminals? We in CPD go after criminals, too, but we just don't ask if they are illegal. So if Lightfoot doesn't want non citizen criminals arrested, are we too assume she doesn't want citizen criminals arrested either? Lightfoot is a constant hypocrite.
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