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uber charged over 18,000 Canadian dollars for a 20-minute ride a Twitter post from December 9th is making the rounds in it Twitter user Emily Canard posted a screenshot of a bill from uber the ride lasted from 514 to 535 p.m. in Toronto the cost of the ride was eighteen thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents which translates to around fourteen thousand four hundred US dollars the bill belonged to a friend of Cunard the friend try to dispute the charges but apparently was not given a refund immediately after the Twitter post went online it received a bit of attention being retweeted and liked over 200 times each uber said there was an error and we've provided a full refund we sincerely apologize to this writer for his experience we have safeguards in place to help prevent something like this from happening and we are working to understand how this occurred in the past uber has taken flack for its surge pricing the company charged four times the price during a hostage situation in Sydney Australia after some social media backlash uber Sydney gave away rides for free so was this 18,000 Canadian dollar charge about surge pricing uber says no on December 11th uber told the National Post a Canadian publication that the overcharged was due to a driver error and not a technical issue are you still using uber or have you jumped to another service like lyft let us know for more coverage check out cnet.com oh my as that time I'll see you online