The scooter has landed in Bloomington in a big way. The new mode of transportation shortens the time required for walking to class and is faster and more convenient than some other forms of transportation to shuttle between places.
Scooter companies now offer a career, of sorts, to the public. It doesn’t matter what profession you are, or whether you have special skills– you can earn money by becoming a scooter charger.
According to Joshua Sanai, the registering process is easy. It only takes couple days to receive three chargers from the company, and how much income you make is entirely determined by the chargers: The more scooters one captures, the more money they will get.
“If you charge a couple, you make more money than you (otherwise) would,” Joshua said, “You can make more than if you get a regular job around here that pays close to minimum wage or a little above it.”
When searching for the scooters, chargers are supposed to press the “capture” button via the app. The charging system is as simple as a real-life Pokémon Go. In addition, the collected scooters have different prices for paying the chargers due to the remaining battery life or how difficult the scooter’s location can be to access.
Green scooter: Easy to locate, usually pay chargers $5 per scooter.
Yellow scooter: Locations are less accurate and takes more time to find them.
Red scooter: The location has not been updated for a while and rare to capture, but the reward for the charger is the highest bounty– around $20.
However, there have been some unsatisfactory phenomenon these days. Many chargers have turned to hoarding abandoned scooters to gain higher profits.
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Once familiar with the operating mode of the charging system, a large number of people began to use the system’s loopholes to obtain higher profits. Chris Zhu registered as a charger months ago, but a strange situation caught his attention. Chris noticed large area with 20 scooters inside a fraternity house while he was hunting at night.
People are hiding scooters in their homes for three to four days.
The cheating way of making quick money has caused problems for many chargers. “It’s kind of waste my time,” Chris said. “Definitely reduce my motivation of keep doing this.”