Shocked Uber passenger, 22, is charged £35,000 for a four-mile journey that took just 15 minutes after his driver confused town in Manchester for one in Australia
- Oliver Kaplan, 22, was told it would cost just £10 for the four-mile journey
- However, he was shocked to find he was charged over £35,000 after the trip
- The Uber driver mixed up Ashton-Under-Lyne with Ashton, a town in Australia
A man was left shocked after he was charged £35,000 for a 15 minute Uber trip when the driver mixed up a town in Manchester with one in Australia – 10,000 miles away.
Oliver Kaplan, 22, was told it would cost just £10 for the four-mile trip from Hyde in Greater Manchester to Ashton-Under-Lyne on a trip to see friends.
However, he woke up the next morning to find Uber had tried to take £35,427.97 from his bank account.
The Uber driver is thought to have mixed up Ashton-under-Lyne with the town of Ashton near Adelaide in South Australia.
Fortunately, the car company later changed Oliver’s fee to £10.53 and apologised for the error.
Oliver Kaplan, 22, was told it would cost just £10 for the four-mile trip to Ashton-under-Lyne
The Uber driver is thought to have mixed up Ashton-under-Lyne with the town of Ashton near Adelaide in South Australia
Oliver told The Sun: ‘The driver took me exactly where I was meant to be going.
‘It was a 15-minute journey tops and the bill was said to be between £10 and £11, charged to my debit card.
‘But when I woke up hungover, the last thing I expected was a charge of over £35,000.
‘It said the amount couldn’t be taken because I had insufficient funds.
‘If I had that sort of money, I would have had to chase them for a refund.
‘It could have landed me in all sorts of financial trouble.
‘I’m still wondering how the location was even set to Australia, seeing as it is the other side of the globe.
‘Thankfully, they were really good about it and made it right straight away but it was a stressful half-hour to say the least.’
A spokesperson for Uber said: ‘We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused.’
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