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kabrams · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Location: your Dad's house

Long story short, I took a black taxi from Incheon Airport to my apartment. As we were unloading the stuff out of the trunk, he printed off the receipt. We paid for the taxi, but then he told us we needed to pay a tax in addition to the printed off receipt.

Anyway, we paid the tax and then he drove away with the receipt AND my ARC card (which I tried to get from him during the drive home).

Is there a way I can contact this taxi driver or the taxi companies to figure out how to get my ARC card back?

Thank you.

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

Why did a cab driver have your ARC?

I don't mean to be... you know. I know you already know. But just for the sake of the influx of new kids reading the forums right now, just... don't. Ever. EVER.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

IlIlNine · Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo

Yeah, seriously. It's kind of hard to refrain... but, that was a pretty.. umm .. silly.. thing to do. Why would you give the taxi your ARC? What's this extra tax? There is no such thing...

You basically got completely scammed - sorry to hear it.

If you take a taxi, always pay meter, never give them your ARC. If you really can't avoid paying some kind of flat rate, make sure you know how much you should be paying. If you don't, talk to a few taxi drivers and bargain with each one. One of them's gonna give you a lower fare than the others. Take that one. And don't pay any tax, it's built into the price.

iammac2002 · Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Location: 'n Beter plek.

And if they ask you for your card in the first place, just say you lost it, or don't have it on you. I never go anywhere with mine anyway. It got stolen once, along with my purse, when I was drunk in Itaewon, so when I had to go to Hong Kong for a new visa, and hadn't replaced it yet, I got fined but I could still leave the country, and come back.

The only places you really need it is at airports and casinos. And bars if you look really young.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

Keep your windows locked when you go out. No telling who knows where you live now.

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Again...why would you give a taxi drive your card? Makes no sense!
Response?

craash · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:12 am Post subject:

(1) Never catch a black taxi

(2) Never give your ARC to anyone to hold - IT's YOURS - don't give it to anyone

(3) Never pay "additional tax-fees etc" especially to a taxi driver - NO SUCH THING exists...

How did you let him talk you into an extra fee - then let him drive away with your receipt and card?

either you were not thinking straight - or this taxi driver is a "pro"

Go to Immigration and report it - (you have to write down how you LOST your card anyway - so you might as well tell them it was STOLEN - which it was) whilst there - get yourself a new ARC - it will cost you 10,000won...

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

This has got to be a troll. Nobody can be that stupid.

benji · Joined: 21 Jul 2009

Why would a taxi driver even want an Arc card?

Yesterday · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:58 am Post subject:

KAMAKAZI · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Location: Jamshil

benji · Joined: 21 Jul 2009

Yesterday · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:28 am Post subject:

I guess you could wear a boot and a trunk...

but thats what it is - same thing for the storage place on the back of your car...

Heres a funny American-British translation clip - http://www.rjkoehler.com/2009/08/01/funny-even-with-the-irony-of-being-called-rude-by-an-australian/

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

There is actually an extra fee that doesn't show up on the meter for when you change city zones. So the meter could read 20,000 won, but if you're going from Incheon to Seoul, you have to fork over another 5,000 won.

That might be the "tax" you're talking about.