Hallo R/ArmenienAnwesend
Ich teile eine beunruhigende Erfahrung, die ich letzten Dienstag in Eriwan gemacht habe, in der Hoffnung, das Bewusstsein zu schärfen und vielleicht einige Ratschläge zu bekommen. Ich kam auf einem späten Flug an, erschöpft und wollte nur schnell in mein Hotel kommen. Während er nach einem Taxi suchte, kam ein Mann auf mich zu, der eine Fahrt für 200 dram billiger als Yandex -Taxi anbot. Ich überprüfte Yandex, sah, dass der Preis 1700 Dram betrug, und da ich müde war und den Menschen im Allgemeinen vertraute, stimmte ich zu.
Wir rasten ab, wobei der Fahrer jede erdenkliche Verkehrsregel brach. Als wir mein Hotel erreichten, zeigte er mir sein Telefon und behauptete, der Fahrpreis sei 16.000 Dram. Ich war schockiert und befragte ihn und wies darauf hin, dass er einen viel niedrigeren Preis zitiert hatte. Er behauptete, das erste Zitat sei nur die „Boarding -Gebühr“. Die Dinge eskalierten schnell – als ich zurückschob, wurde er aggressiv. Ich schlug vor, die Polizei anzurufen, um es zu klären, aber er schloss die Türen ab und fing an, mich in eine unbekannte Richtung zu treiben, um mir zu schaden und meine Sachen zu nehmen.
Als ich merkte, dass ich in einer gefährlichen Situation war, bezahlte ich den 16.000 Dram widerwillig, um sicher rauszukommen. Als ich ging, gelang es mir, ein kurzes Foto von seinem Auto zu machen, obwohl sein Gesicht nicht sehr klar ist.
Ich bin eine zivilisierte Person und wollte die Dinge nicht heftig eskalieren, insbesondere als Erstbesucher in Armenien. Ich habe dies seitdem der Polizei gemeldet, in der Hoffnung, dass sie Maßnahmen ergreifen werden. Ich habe immer von den starken Traditionen der Gastfreundschaft des Kaukasus gehört, daher war diese Erfahrung zutiefst enttäuschend. Ich weiß, dass jede Nation schlechte Äpfel hat, aber dies hat einen bitteren Geschmack hinterlassen.
Ich habe das Foto des Autos angebracht (das Gesicht ist leider verschwommen). Ich würde gerne Ihre Gedanken hören, da ich immer noch glauben möchte, dass dies den Geist Armeniens nicht widerspiegelt.
Danke fürs Lesen.
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Von Deepko
15 Kommentare
These guys are nothing less than scum. They’ll rip off anyone, Armenian or not, if they can. They try with locals, tourists, Diaspora Armenians, etc. Ignoring them is the only way to go since there is not enough enforcement to get these assholes off of airport property.
You’ve reported the son of a bitch to a police station, but won’t change a lot since you won’t be around to actually go to court and take legal action.
You should’ve gone for the Yandex option instead of trying to save 200 AMD… just a general lesson not related only to Armenia, but never enter a car in a developing country’s airport based on an unofficial negotiation late at night.
Luckily, there are few other places to get scammed this badly so you had the worst unfortunately at the beginning. For the rest of the trip, use Gg and Yandex Taxi and enjoy.
Literally every single country in the world has these taxi scams at the airport.
This isn’t a taxi scam. This is a serious crime, possibly an attempted kidnapping. The only right thing to do here is to call the police.
Another week, another post about taxi airport scam.
This has been going on since the collapse of the Soviet union. If those morons can’t get rid of them at the airport exits they should have employees in arrival gates warning tourists about the scam at very least.
Only advice possible: use Yandex.Taxi only.
And I’m curious what will police do (:
Thats gross, never ever trust people trying to offer taxi rides on the street, thats not just a scam its also a crime, really sorry that happened
God forbid someone from a 3rd world country makes a living wage off of taxi driving, 16000 equivalent is perfectly normal for airport to main city in Europe, even a bit cheap in some cases.
I don’t see the issue, you’d never complain about paying this much in Europe but because we Armenians are poor and barbaric we deserve to get paid 1/10th of that compared to the civilized European knights.
Annoys me to no end when these westerners go to poor countries, scam the population by paying them literally 5 dollars for a 40 minute drive, then complain when they demand more, such an EVIL SCAM they are committing by wanting enough money to live in one of the most expensive cities in Eastern Europe.
Damn, that sucks and i feel very bad that it is how we met you in the country.
As people said here already, only use yandex taxi, airport taxis are scams in general, i once had similar experience in Kazachstaan although that guy didnt try to kidnap us at least.
Glad that you reported it to police. I actually had some experience with police last year there and was surprised how proactive they were for even very small crimes. So hopefully they will search for that guy and at least scare him off for future.
Always use GG. Any taxi that doesn’t use an app is a scam
Your fault thinking that a guy in BMW will charge less than Yandex (1700 is the cheapest with old Opel car probably)…you already had the app, so you were aware of the scam situation and people in this sub warning about taking taxis from the airport without the app.
Call the police and ask for English speaker, or better go by yourself. Nothing will happen to you there, you may save the next victim.
Post it on Armenian facebook groups, your story may get enough reaction that someone in charge may take an action.
edit:
complain email sent to press(at)police.am
you guys can do the same.
Man, it’s the same car from the month-old post.
I get that people generally shouldn’t trust people who offer taxi rides outside the airport.
But it’s a worrying tendency that the same guy is doing the same illegal stuff over and over, and is getting away with it.
Easy way to fix all this. Armenia should develop a metro to the airport into the city center. Would solve all this nonsense and it’s a great job boosting infrastructure project. Civil engineering needs to be strengthened in Armenia,
You got the license plate so now do the right thing and report it to the police.
Police here doesn’t mess around, they’ll get it sorted
Literally googled the plate number and found this [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/groups/DoNotDoThis/posts/1927820094423807/)
And I want to also point out that „pretty looking numbers“ cost money, so he is not doing this to „survive this harsh and poor thirld world country“