New Taxi "Operators" on the Road

Other than Uber, Grab Taxi, and other taxi app services, there appears to be a new class of operators on the road.  We call them "Zippies".

No fear of competition, however, since these cabs have the Green Light on, i.e. no passengers, yet choose not to stop.  No matter how we hail, they simply zip by blatantly, thus we call them "Zippies".

We hope this is not a new tactic to beat the authorities at their game, because ever since the Land Transport Authority (LTA) impose taxi availability standards for the major operators (Comfort, CitiCab, TransCab and Premier), we are experiencing an increase of taxis driving around with Green Light on and not picking up passengers, where prior to this, they would have the Red "Hired" sign on to indicate that they are not available.

The current taxi availability mileage counters that monitor the minimum daily mileage of 250 km that the cabbies have to log in, may not be sufficient to curb some cabbies' habit of using their cabs for private use.

POSB's Puzzling Overseas Spend Promotion

Despite voicing the puzzle to POSB Hotline, there has been no clarity to this computation in relation to POSB's 2% rebate for Overseas Spend.

Promotion link:-
https://www.posb.com.sg/personal/cards/credit-cards/posb-everyday-card


In the promo link, it says:-

Get 2% Cash Rebate on your Overseas Spend
Your POSB Everyday Card now lets you enjoy more savings when you travel. Charge to your POSB Everyday Card when you travel and get 2% cash rebate⁵ on your overseas spend!

However, in the T&C, it says:-

Full terms and conditions

5.   Subject to a minimum total spend of S$1,000 on your POSB Everyday Card within the same calendar month and capped at Daily$10 per Card account per month (effective 01 February 2015).

?!?

First off, to qualify for the promo, spending $1,000 is a must.

So happily, you would think that you are getting $20 as rebate based on the promo of 2% on $1,000.

However, according to the T&C, your rebate is capped at $10 (Daily$10 per Card account per month).

So after spending a minimum of $1,000 to qualify for the 2% rebate promo, you can only get a maximum of $10 rebate.

The effective rebate is therefore 1% and not 2%, as claimed in the promo.

The Customer Service Officer agrees with me.
I've asked for a revert confirmation from POSB Marketing in May.

But there has been no clarification till now.