# Professor Robert Seamans comments on Uber's leaked financial documents

1 Faculty News August 24, 2017 ![VICE News logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/vice-logo1.jpg?itok=m8lZ7mZ1)>

Excerpt from [VICE](https://news.vice.com/story/ubers-leaked-financials-are-an-incomplete-picture-of-its-business) -- "'In principle, a consumer who’s upset with Uber because of the investigation of sexual harassment or other issues could switch to Lyft or another competitor,' [Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans) said. 'In practice, though, it looks like the switching costs for consumers is high enough that few actually do make the switch.'"

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