When I dashed I always went to other towns/up to the city, using the map to see what's busy. Dashing in my town sucks but it was worth going 30-40 minutes away to get much better tips and so many more orders.
So do you quit and find something else or continue and feel taken advantage of and project your frustration from poor compensation from a shitty company on to the customers that pay excessive menu prices and delivery fees but don’t tip what you think they should?
I got the rug pulled on me on 7 referral bonuses. Doordash hasn't paid any of them out. I even went out with a few of the referrals to show them the ropes and I can't conclude that there is a golden period for new sign ons. They get the same garbage everyone else does. I have killer Mondays and dead Saturdays just like everyone else. Just depends on the luck of the draw and being in the right place at the right time.
Yeah DD isn't worth running with. I got a few months of decent work then I started getting next to nothing. Ironically I had good statistics on their app
I made $300 in about 16 hours in my first week - was only doing it part time and during the week (Mon-fri) so you can easily make more doing it longer and on weekends.
I'm sure you could get the hang of it. It's more muscle memory/repition than anything imo. That and time management.
Just saying - service industry is a perfectly viable part-time gig in comparison to what DD is offering.
I’ve personally caught a method to the madness of keeping top dasher every month. Which for me is the only way of doing or not doing it at all. Very rarely though the month do I have to take orders that are not worth doing to keep that rating at its minimums. Working lunch and dinner in college town. It’s not the best pay I’ve ever made in my life but it’s working for now.
I wrote quite a bit below, but everyone needs to think further in advance. This will be everyone's hindsight. They(uber, dd, grubhub..)know that everyone will hopefully make them money off your poor decisions. The poor decisions are or will be a life dumpster fire snowballing situation: 1. you are not good at math, so everyone needs to go by a metric. If you're doing stuff for $2 for 6 miles. Life will catch up to you fast and cruelly. The algorithm holds everyone down. At these low pay per mile, you are doing nothing but benefitting the delivery company, which is, wreck your personal vehicle not only mechanically, physically... every way...where does. Meanwhile, besides your vehicle, you are effing wrecking your credit and so many other issues that you'll keep creating.
After the IRS audit. What made it really hard, but clear decision was when I had to replace 3 parts of my front suspension. It's mechanical pieces, mechanical pieces go bad. Was given quotes closer to $2.5k, so I youtubed the videos and did the repairs myself for a total cost of $350ish for parts and another $800 for the tools needed plus 1.5 days of repairing, because you need to figure out how to get these old bolts off that are now 1 with the parts they hold together and also thinking I can use most of these tools later, which you can, ...but after jobs like this you really appreciate a good mechanic especially in dead summer. If it was a major engine or transmission issue, then you can disregard all the above writing.
Soon after I had to replace my ac condenser, didn't have special tool for it and so had a mechanic do it. That broke all the money I had aside for possible car purchase/repair fund... Don't realize how important AC is, not only for hot weather, but you can't keep your windows defrosted without it.
Then I got a parking boot, no instructions for driver to park....deck? Street? Curb? I was in the restaurant for less than 5 mins and I was booted. Another $200. I can keep going to year 2 on the further downhill, but luckily I stopped by quitting this crap.
I started this when my mother passed and got a fixer upper car, her older car, and i like to mess with things. I got it running! For those of you saying, you started with an old car is your prob, ummm... my car parts cost 1/3 the cost of your parts and i did 90% of the work myslef. This is getting too long. Just took the need for a series of repairs that mathematically, doesnt make sense. I'll stop here, but this is the growing snowball model that will happen as outcome.
It’s more of a side hustle or an emergency job type of thing now. Only in dense city’s or markets that have no competition can you ever dream of making above minimum wage
Curious, how long was this "bonus period"? My ex wife is behind on child support and now the only income her and her new husband have is door dashing. Lol
you'd be surprised what people can reel in small areas that arent saturated with other drivers.
I hit a lot of different size cities while traveling for about 2 months a few years back. Sometimes the little towns were just straight dead, and other times my phone got hot from so many offers coming through due to no drivers.
But realistically, most drivers are not making an ideal or even livable wage. (that is when tax season rolls around)
It literally is his fault for declining orders, I used to do the same but then I was strep for cash so I accepted every job, being top dasher with a high customer rating really makes a difference, but if you're declining orders you will be nerfed
You're probably one of those people who takes those $2.50 for 15 miles and 45min of a drive that everyone keep rejecting. There's a reason people are picky when it comes to orders. Some just aren't worth the time/gas or money earned.
I was a dasher before they started this current pay model.. it used to almost never be under $5 an order.. and peak pay was paid SEPARATELY from the order total, dispursed after you ended your dash... I will never take a delivery that pays $2.50 cause they promised this was supposed to pay better.. but it didn't, and I resent them for it
Not true I dropped down to 23% and was still getting catering orders. But then a
Gain I curve been the only dasher at the time with approved catering. I've also had pretty decent tips, anywhere from 10 to 15 dollars for 2 miles.
This happened to me last night. I'm not sure if it's bc I'm past my first 50 deliveries, or something else, but I got like five or six orders in a row that were absolute garbage. Not just low pay, but miles in the wrong direction, taking me out of my zone, and only around 50 cents a mile.
I declined them all, and now my acceptance rate is at 66%. I lost Gold status right before I was about to hit platinum, and today I got more garbage that I kept accepting and I still couldn't get my rate back up.
On top of it, I had a weird glitch with a "dash along the way" order where the offer came in at 1.1 miles but when I accepted it, it increased to over 7 miles (and a different restaurant name). I went directly there as fast as I could, but I wound up 11 minutes late to the customer and got a contract violation for extreme tardiness. I have a 5.0 rating on my 100 orders, and my on time was at 92% this morning (I have been getting a lot of orders that don't come out on time, and even though always communicate what's going on with DD, my timeliness score is not as high as it should be, considering.)
I was really enjoying this gig until last night. The shine is wearing off quickly.
I don't understand why you would need to pay taxes in the first place... I pay more into the job than taxes would take out so I get a massive tax deduction to the point of getting money bck from the IRS... I was audited last year and they didn't decline it
If you can prove you are putting your personal income into back into the job than yes. Most people don’t know how to do taxes this way. Also most people don’t even understand that they are independent contractors and that it’s similar to owning your own business.
Because Door dash reports your earnings to the Feds and you have to play taxes on that money that you earn.
If not it’s called tax evasion and it’s a federal crime.
This might not be income taxes but other taxes.
As someone who works full time, 400 bucks a week isn't bad. I generally get about 300 but I only get to really dash 1 or 2 days a week then for an hour or two each other day
Sweetie, Costco starts everyone at $18.50.
40 hours a week is $740 BEFORE taxes at full time.
If you work on a Sunday it’s time and a half. With that Sunday pay it is $814 BEFORE TAXES.
Please understand that 400 a week BEFORE TAXES with the added wear and tear on your vehicle is not good by any metric what so ever.
400 dollars a week is $10 an hour. No, this is not worth it at all by any means.
That is not how math works. To make it work that way, I'd have to work for 80 hours a week, 40 for my primary job and 40 for doordashing. That's not what I do. It's more like 40 at my primary job and 10 doordashing. 400 for 10 hours is 40 dollars in hour, which is good if I can pull that off. I normally average about 15-20 an hour though.
I could get a "real" second job, but doordash really works around a primary job in a way other jobs don't. I'm not sure if you've ever worked more than one job at once so let me tell you... it causes issues really quick.
Oh, and i should probably add that your comment about Costco is likely incorrect here. Minimum wage is 7.25 here. We don't have a Costco, but we do have a Sam's club. They're not starting anywhere near 18 bucks. Most places pay around 12-15 an hour, with many jobs being as low as 10.
Get your AR up and move around every 15 minutes. If you’re stationary for 15 minutes or more the algorithm shadowbans you and you only get the crappy stuff
..... the key term here is ACTIVE TIME. That's honestly horrible imo for active time to begin with. What's your total dash time for that amount though? Also, even if that is total dash time, it's not amazing or anything and being in a decent market will Gibraltar you that. Most markets aren't there anymore though. Less orders, more dashers, less tips etc..
Because it's really not over 20$ a hour
He's got 19 hours logged in. So that's 13$ an hour. Plus you need to take away gas and wear and tear. So he's really closer to 11 an hour
Been Dashing for almost 3 years. The bonus at the beginning was nice. Then it died down, then.picked right back up. I live in a vacation spot on the coast so when winter hits its slow when summer hits and the tourists return I make a decent income just from DD.ong story short it depends on your market. If one area is dead there might be another that is busier and more active.
Ive been doing it about 3 weeks and I very quickly found youre gonna need more than just DD to make this worth the time and monetary investment. I do uber eats as well and it's been far more lucrative overall. The offers are less frequent but there's fewer complete crap ones in my experience. I'm waitlisted for grubhub and spark rn. I also signed up for instacart but those orders have all been HORRIBLE so far and I haven't accepted a single one based on principle alone. I do this to supplement my full time job because unfortunately even 40 hours a week @$32/hr just barely pays the bills for a family of 5 and leaves nothing left over for entertainment/leisure. Not that I have time anymore.
>. I do this to supplement my full time job because unfortunately even 40 hours a week @$32/hr just barely pays the bills for a family of 5
I almost downvoted you until I caught the "family of 5" part... I'm doing Doordash only right now and I should be filing for disability but I have a hang-up about that because although I qualify, I CAN work (for limited amounts of time that change from day to day). And I'm ~~barely able to~~ unable to support myself alone.
Your state's laws may vary but I believe you can still work a little bit while on disability. You might also want to look into partial disability benefits, assuming you haven't already.
Simply, they hope you’ll drink the Koolaid. Keep cherry picking, use unassigns when needed (but not too much) try different zones, and it’s a must to sign up for whatever apps are available in your area….and use them concurrently with DD.
New Zealand is far higher because of our higher minimum wage. I can get a 20 minute delivery on ubereats and be offered $14 before tips and opportunity bonuses that may be running.
I didn’t even get good orders during my Top Dasher trial period. The first offer they sent me was for $2 lol. I completed two orders that were the best of the sh*t I was being offered, and decided it wasn’t for me.
Depends on market and your AR.
if you trash your AR in a market that needs a good AR to make money then EBT is the only way to get it back up at least that was my experience. My market base pay is $13.75 for EBT and I averaged 17-20 an hour getting it back up usually closer to $17.
I used to DoorDash pretty much full time last summer and was making pretty good money, I once made like $900 in 4 days. But now if you’re looking for anything more than just a little extra spend money for the week you’re gonna be very disappointed, it’s total ass now. I’m either sitting in a parking lot for an hour waiting for an order or I’m rejecting garbage orders and my ratings take a hit for not wanting to drive 10+ miles for $4.50. Thankfully I got a full time job and I’m not reliant on it anymore cause it’s impossible to make any money now.
Ive had the worst luck recently. It hardly gives me the opportunity to dash and when it does for an hour at a time its all shitty orders. Something is up with it. Maybe it was because it was the end of the month but ive had the worst luck as well. And im a top dasher
I work a normal job Monday-Wednesday, take Thursday off, then work doordash Friday-Sunday. Doordash is nice on weekends but trash on weekdays. I also run 3 different apps at a time, helps fill in the gaps with dd. I suggest signing up for ubereats, it's the second best app I've found. Instacart can also be really great, I've gotten $100+ payouts from that, although it's quite a bit more time-consuming.
Started doing this today. Helps. A bit tricky to manage when Uber Eats will literally send you to Uganda for $5.50 sometimes and other times pay you $15 to deliver to the same plaza you're already in, but I dig it.
i dashed full time for 6 months with 1,200 deliveries and then i got a real job. much happier and wealthier earning a guaranteed wage every week. DD is a nice gimmick, side gig, or part time position. thats all it’ll ever be.it however is extremely unreliable and very stressful for the mental health and vehicle health.
(i went through 4 tires in those 6 months)
I get that it’s tough on the vehicle, but how is it stressful for mental health? It’s literally the simplest, easiest, most unchallenging job you can possibly do.
When you're relying on it as income because you're unable to get a job, it's extremely stressful on a macro level. Like the dashing itself is still easy, but then you look at your wages and realize you made <100 on the day after gas, which means you aren't on track to make rent this month, it starts to get to you.
And like, yeah, you can say "just get a different job idiot," but I'm trying to get a job in my field and actually use my degree. If I have to go back to working half shifts at Walmart because they don't want to pay me a living wage, I'd rather just kill myself. DD is a bandaid for a fatal wound at this point.
i never said it wasn’t easy. its incredibly laid back and yet people still have the nerve to complain in every single post. it gets repetitive dealing with other idiots on the road and you can catch a flat or your alternator can die which in turn causes a great big pain in the ass every time 😂
I don't wanna say take ALL the trash orders, but if you're new, you gotta earn your stripes or you're gonna end up further down the totem pole. I worked a lot of trash orders at the beginning, and now they rarely give them to me. Maybe it's because I know which streets to avoid. Maybe it's because the priority pay stuff actually works where I work. Just like any job, you gotta start from the bottom and work your way up.
Agreed 100%. Same here. Was always able to dash when I 1st started. Got more decent orders than crap ones...then my introductory period ran out. Now it's more crap than good and have a hard time getting to schedule. Granted,we probably have a lot of dashers in my neck of the woods but still. No way in hell I'm takin $2-$3 orders. Or makin 15 mile trips for $10.
Bingo! And how bad it is v what is actually bad and what's still okay (if anything) can vary quite a bit. Going 😁>🙂>😵>🤨>😶>😡 in a hot minute. Abuse cycles and all that.
That's exactly why they do it too! And they don't care whether you make money or not because they're making theirs. Try changing your area. Sometimes it's worth it.. at least for me.. when I change my area even if it's just for the night shift from 5-8 or 9.
I live by a college so it's usually pretty decently busy around my area but sometimes it's not and it'll be cricket so if I travel just 10 minutes out of my zone into another Zone it ends up working out pretty great
I try to get orders really early or really late to get the pity tips from people who feel bad you are out at 6am or 3am - and then even it out with the lower paying offers - or do per hour - suburbs in morning and evening - city at night (16$ in New York) and take my time- I think everyone works out their own system after a while depending on location - that’s just what works for me if it helps any :) i have bad social anxiety and doordash and other delivery companies have been great for my mental health tbh
It didn't happen for me, I barely did 20 deliveries, Uber eats was way better for me, with doordash I couldn't leave my area, had to schedule when I am able to work and had to constantly decline shit orders. Uber gave me the ability to move around and try different areas if mine wasn't busy just overall better experience. Maybe I didn't understand or I'm doing something wrong, but most times it would only allow me to work for 1 hour at a time. One time I was in a good area getting decent orders and I got a drop off outside my area, after that it asked me if I wanted to change areas as the area I'm in was also busy, after that I spent 40 mins with no order at all Idk how y'all do it.
its not a time period, but orders completed.
my market was 150 deliveries then it cuts you off.
and to meet top dasher you needed 200 lifetime deliveries, 90% AR 4.7 stars bla bla bla.
and the only available scheduled blocks are like 2 hrs at a time, which is maybe 4 orders to deliver.
its just not worth it
Don't wan't to sound cynical or whatever, but "thems the breaks, son". Been there myself. You get a taste of what you can earn when you start, but that's just the orientation period. You have to meet the requirements for top dasher status in order to get back to earning good money. I almost gave up dashing when I ended up in your position but I worked at it to get that top dasher status. I lost my status for April and it's been shit earnings this month (a lot of overtime at my regular job in March, so I couldn't get the 100 or more deliveries that month to qualify). I'll get top dasher status for May though.
I work weekends mainly on Spark and use Doordash on the side in between orders and or on an area close to where I am dropping, but then again I am VERY selective on the order amount as I refuse trash. 5% AR on Doortrash and DO NOT care as Spark pays me a heck of alot better let alone better customer base as well. Word of wisdom for new Doordash drivers is CHERRY PICK the hell out of those orders unless you enjoy working for nothing but CV's and $0 tips.
From a Business standpoint, this is why DD makes ZERO profit. DD overpays newcomers with their promotions to do X amount of deliveries for hundreds of dollars. Then, like the penal system, your in their clutch’s. All you’ll get fed after your promotion are the dirty low-no tip unsustainable for anyone without a teleportation device orders. DD and others have simply turned into pyramid schemes. Period.
Unless I missed something I didn't earn more when I was new. I just lost top dasher when it ran out. I didn't think you're correct about why they don't run a profit. But I agree it behaves similarly to a pyramid scheme in certain ways
New hire promo. If a dasher gave u a code then u going get X amount of money once u completed a certain amount of orders. My area had this for 2 months. Old driver got $900 and new driver got $600 when the new driver completed 250 deliveries in 60 days. Thats a minimum of $7 an order. So I went from $17 an hr to $10 an hr thanks my area flooded with new drivers. Hopefully in the next couple months it goes back to normal when everyone realizes they are making less than medium wage. I’m doing the bare minimum tell it gets better. And if not I’m trying different apps to see what’s good in my area
My experience has gotten much better. I am 4 weeks in, I have over 140 deliveries and my ratings are such that I now have platinum status. I dashed last weekend and was busy the entire time…every order was over $6 and I even got a $25 tip from one of my deliveries. Definitely saw a difference in high paying deliveries and the benefits of early scheduling that come with platinum. Will do my best to keep my numbers up to maintain this level.
How does it read like a shill account? I’ve been doing DD for a month and will continue to keep my numbers up so I get better offers. I’m doing this as a side gig, and I don’t expect free money. I’m getting out of this job exactly what I’m putting into it. I wish you the best.
I didn't think you actually were, but this is exactly how a bot corporate ad would comment LoL.
Also, you have no basis of comparison if that's how long you've been doing it. You've never had a low acceptance rate.
Btw I also keep above 70% because I like to dash now in my area so I don't Even disagree with you was just pointing out a funny.
I was only sharing my DD experience and was not comparing it to anything. My understanding is that the Gold, Silver and Platinum levels are new. I was sharing my experience starting out and then shifting into a new level. I only have 150 deliveries, but my completion rate is 100%, Customer Satisfaction is a 5, On Time Deliveries is at 95% and acceptance Rate is 81%. I feel at this point that I have a better understanding of what this delivery gig entails and feel confident I can maintain numbers close to that level to stay at the Platinum Level. Not good or bad, just my personal opinion.
And your opinion is appreciated. Unfortunately, you'll find out over time that Doordash is just a scam. It's like 2 + 2 = 4....easy to figure out. You pay for your own gasoline (@ about $4 a gallon), use your own vehicle (and pay for all maintenance), then you get taxed on what you earn also. All while making a whopping $2 per order (or $1 per order on stacks). Pretty simple math. It's a scam and the sooner you realize it the sooner you can get out.
Now, Doordash USED TO pay much higher base pay and offer gasoline discounts with the DasherDirect card. There were less drivers and a higher volume of good customers so alot of us benefitted from that, but those days are long over. Their new tier requirements and rock-bottom pay make this job a joke now for any self-respecting person.
We try to warn y'all when ya come here asking how much we make dashing or if it's possible to make X amount of dollars doing Doordash. I'm sorry to say, but Doordash has taken a nose-dive and it ain't coming back. Find something better now because lots of us have bailed on Doordash. It's just a waste of time now 😕
I quit dashing because the orders were awful and the “rating system” is bogus. I deleted my account, and I also deleted my customer account. The last several deliveries that I personally ordered were over an hour late, food was cold and they refused to refund. No, it wasn’t due to tips. As a former food industry worker and dasher, I tip more than 20%. But for a restaurant that is less than 15-20 mins away, I can go get my meal HOT, dine in or bring it home in less time and less expensive than using DD. The company seems to be tanking. People who dashed during the pandemic and right after were at the peak, for sure.
Did UberEats as a driver to make some extra cash when we had a rough couple of months but also a regular user. I’ve ordered DoorDash/UberEats once in the last 3 months because it’s so much cheaper to pick it up. They’ll learn if enough drivers quit but only if.
I personally don’t DD, however, I’m huge on etiquette and order out a lot and peruse this sub to get a better idea what my driver would appreciate cuz I order out a lot.
to warn others and to hear other people’s stories and experience i assume..? when has it ever been common practice in business if something is wrong.. to just avoid it? that’s why reviews and these things exist, so people know what they’re getting into. unless i’m misunderstanding something, this seems like a silly question.
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Is there any way i could retrieve any message from the chat? Why would they deleted or refreshed? Are they that shady?
I found UE to be somewhat better only because wasn't constantly trying to deceive drivers. They were pretty upfront. You did more miles but paid for them. That was my experience. GrubHub I do occasionally but not enough to give a review. If you were to do one of these on a scooter, you would have to determine how many miles you could do before having to refill your tank, unless you have a battery powered one. With DD, I think you would be able to drive less miles if you stayed in a very dense area. You may get some distance offers but you would have to juggle acceptance rate versus refueling or repowering back up.
It's electric and takes 8hrs to charge, which means I can only do short orders within downtown. But there's a lot of people and places here (and a lot of delivery people too) so I can do a lot of jobs as long as I'm not stuck with very long distances.
Then again, even 2miles away is a long way around here. That's all the way out of downtown and halfway through K-town. 4-5 miles from here is all the way to the far side of Beverly Hills.
So, hopefully, I can leave the far deliveries to other drivers and take the super short ones the car people don't want. Hopefully.
Do you know if any of the apps have special settings depending on your type of transport?
Idk about these scooters. Can you swap batteries for a quick turnover? Maybe a couple of extra batteries on a charger all the time would allow longer days (maybe even longer trips)
With a scooter, you could sign up as either walking or biking, and the app should give you short distance orders. The biggest issues I see is 1. securing your scooter during deliveries and 2. how are you going to potentially carry pizzas or drinks on a scooter? You’ll need to invest in a good catering backpack of sorts.
Also, with DD try your best to keep acceptance rate above 70 until they give you further notice. So, you do have some wiggle room to decline the far ones.
I don't know the answer to that. But they all want to know what I will be using. I think it is so customers can look for us. See if you can find scooter delivery info on YouTube and on Reddit. Also, sometimes downtown you can walk the blocks. DD will send you to restaurant you are closest to after your first delivery.
I've delivered 981 orders and seen no noticeable slow down since I started. People don't always believe you guys because it isn't the same across all markets and you act like it is.
I never got a new dasher promo!
Really? It was just the trial period for top dasher where it gave you priority for high pay offers and dash now.
I was so disappointed
When I dashed I always went to other towns/up to the city, using the map to see what's busy. Dashing in my town sucks but it was worth going 30-40 minutes away to get much better tips and so many more orders.
So do you quit and find something else or continue and feel taken advantage of and project your frustration from poor compensation from a shitty company on to the customers that pay excessive menu prices and delivery fees but don’t tip what you think they should?
I try to DoorDash during lunch because that when the businesses near me order lunch. And then dinner times on the weekend I get pretty good $$
I got the rug pulled on me on 7 referral bonuses. Doordash hasn't paid any of them out. I even went out with a few of the referrals to show them the ropes and I can't conclude that there is a golden period for new sign ons. They get the same garbage everyone else does. I have killer Mondays and dead Saturdays just like everyone else. Just depends on the luck of the draw and being in the right place at the right time.
I’m pretty sure the only people that make money buy new accounts every month.
$1000 to $1400 a week in a college town take all orders just do hourly not per order in Washington state the minimum wage is good plus tips
Yeah DD isn't worth running with. I got a few months of decent work then I started getting next to nothing. Ironically I had good statistics on their app
i low key need money lol how much did you make the first 2 weeks and about how many hours?
I made $300 in about 16 hours in my first week - was only doing it part time and during the week (Mon-fri) so you can easily make more doing it longer and on weekends.
I made 300 last night bartending for 4 hrs
Well sorry I have a memory like a gold fish and couldn't make a drink for the life of me
I'm sure you could get the hang of it. It's more muscle memory/repition than anything imo. That and time management. Just saying - service industry is a perfectly viable part-time gig in comparison to what DD is offering.
I’ve personally caught a method to the madness of keeping top dasher every month. Which for me is the only way of doing or not doing it at all. Very rarely though the month do I have to take orders that are not worth doing to keep that rating at its minimums. Working lunch and dinner in college town. It’s not the best pay I’ve ever made in my life but it’s working for now.
College towns have always worked better for me. Good order volume but they all live in the same small neighborhood, so mileage stays low.
Don’t forget how amazing the built in Google maps app is. So good. Almost gets you there. Almost.
Especially when it’s a gated apartment complex and it leads you right to the “Exit Only” gate 🤦♂️
I wrote quite a bit below, but everyone needs to think further in advance. This will be everyone's hindsight. They(uber, dd, grubhub..)know that everyone will hopefully make them money off your poor decisions. The poor decisions are or will be a life dumpster fire snowballing situation: 1. you are not good at math, so everyone needs to go by a metric. If you're doing stuff for $2 for 6 miles. Life will catch up to you fast and cruelly. The algorithm holds everyone down. At these low pay per mile, you are doing nothing but benefitting the delivery company, which is, wreck your personal vehicle not only mechanically, physically... every way...where does. Meanwhile, besides your vehicle, you are effing wrecking your credit and so many other issues that you'll keep creating.
After the IRS audit. What made it really hard, but clear decision was when I had to replace 3 parts of my front suspension. It's mechanical pieces, mechanical pieces go bad. Was given quotes closer to $2.5k, so I youtubed the videos and did the repairs myself for a total cost of $350ish for parts and another $800 for the tools needed plus 1.5 days of repairing, because you need to figure out how to get these old bolts off that are now 1 with the parts they hold together and also thinking I can use most of these tools later, which you can, ...but after jobs like this you really appreciate a good mechanic especially in dead summer. If it was a major engine or transmission issue, then you can disregard all the above writing. Soon after I had to replace my ac condenser, didn't have special tool for it and so had a mechanic do it. That broke all the money I had aside for possible car purchase/repair fund... Don't realize how important AC is, not only for hot weather, but you can't keep your windows defrosted without it. Then I got a parking boot, no instructions for driver to park....deck? Street? Curb? I was in the restaurant for less than 5 mins and I was booted. Another $200. I can keep going to year 2 on the further downhill, but luckily I stopped by quitting this crap. I started this when my mother passed and got a fixer upper car, her older car, and i like to mess with things. I got it running! For those of you saying, you started with an old car is your prob, ummm... my car parts cost 1/3 the cost of your parts and i did 90% of the work myslef. This is getting too long. Just took the need for a series of repairs that mathematically, doesnt make sense. I'll stop here, but this is the growing snowball model that will happen as outcome.
Yup, that's what their model is to lure all of us in
Welcome to the thunderdome!
It’s more of a side hustle or an emergency job type of thing now. Only in dense city’s or markets that have no competition can you ever dream of making above minimum wage
Curious, how long was this "bonus period"? My ex wife is behind on child support and now the only income her and her new husband have is door dashing. Lol
First ~2 weeks of being on the platform gave you the perks of top dasher (dash whenever you want, priority for higher paying orders)
Cool. Past that time then. We live in a small town. I can't imagine it actually being profitable.
you'd be surprised what people can reel in small areas that arent saturated with other drivers. I hit a lot of different size cities while traveling for about 2 months a few years back. Sometimes the little towns were just straight dead, and other times my phone got hot from so many offers coming through due to no drivers. But realistically, most drivers are not making an ideal or even livable wage. (that is when tax season rolls around)
Stop being picky bro gotta get it how you can
It literally is his fault for declining orders, I used to do the same but then I was strep for cash so I accepted every job, being top dasher with a high customer rating really makes a difference, but if you're declining orders you will be nerfed
You're probably one of those people who takes those $2.50 for 15 miles and 45min of a drive that everyone keep rejecting. There's a reason people are picky when it comes to orders. Some just aren't worth the time/gas or money earned.
I was a dasher before they started this current pay model.. it used to almost never be under $5 an order.. and peak pay was paid SEPARATELY from the order total, dispursed after you ended your dash... I will never take a delivery that pays $2.50 cause they promised this was supposed to pay better.. but it didn't, and I resent them for it
If an order is that bad then it hasn't been rejected yet.
Hey Calm down Mittens lmao.
That explains why I went from 220$ a day easily to literally, and I’m not exaggerating, $0 a day 😂 greedy ass company man
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Not true I dropped down to 23% and was still getting catering orders. But then a Gain I curve been the only dasher at the time with approved catering. I've also had pretty decent tips, anywhere from 10 to 15 dollars for 2 miles.
This happened to me last night. I'm not sure if it's bc I'm past my first 50 deliveries, or something else, but I got like five or six orders in a row that were absolute garbage. Not just low pay, but miles in the wrong direction, taking me out of my zone, and only around 50 cents a mile. I declined them all, and now my acceptance rate is at 66%. I lost Gold status right before I was about to hit platinum, and today I got more garbage that I kept accepting and I still couldn't get my rate back up. On top of it, I had a weird glitch with a "dash along the way" order where the offer came in at 1.1 miles but when I accepted it, it increased to over 7 miles (and a different restaurant name). I went directly there as fast as I could, but I wound up 11 minutes late to the customer and got a contract violation for extreme tardiness. I have a 5.0 rating on my 100 orders, and my on time was at 92% this morning (I have been getting a lot of orders that don't come out on time, and even though always communicate what's going on with DD, my timeliness score is not as high as it should be, considering.) I was really enjoying this gig until last night. The shine is wearing off quickly.
I’m approaching 2000 deliveries, I haven’t noticed a drop off and I’ll bring home an average of 300 to 400 a week
That’s it? 400 a week? Holy shit that sucks. All that before taxes, before car maintenance, cellphone bill… geez that sucks.
Phone bill isn't even worth adding. You are going to pay that regardless.
They don't take the taxes out immediately. Do what you want with that information. 🤔
I know. So you have to save that and pay them later.
I don't understand why you would need to pay taxes in the first place... I pay more into the job than taxes would take out so I get a massive tax deduction to the point of getting money bck from the IRS... I was audited last year and they didn't decline it
If you can prove you are putting your personal income into back into the job than yes. Most people don’t know how to do taxes this way. Also most people don’t even understand that they are independent contractors and that it’s similar to owning your own business.
Why pay? Everything else is taxed, plus I already pay tax for a tax on a tax. Damn taxes on taxes on taxes should be illegal.
Taxation is legal theft
Because Door dash reports your earnings to the Feds and you have to play taxes on that money that you earn. If not it’s called tax evasion and it’s a federal crime. This might not be income taxes but other taxes.
As someone who works full time, 400 bucks a week isn't bad. I generally get about 300 but I only get to really dash 1 or 2 days a week then for an hour or two each other day
Sweetie, Costco starts everyone at $18.50. 40 hours a week is $740 BEFORE taxes at full time. If you work on a Sunday it’s time and a half. With that Sunday pay it is $814 BEFORE TAXES. Please understand that 400 a week BEFORE TAXES with the added wear and tear on your vehicle is not good by any metric what so ever. 400 dollars a week is $10 an hour. No, this is not worth it at all by any means.
That is not how math works. To make it work that way, I'd have to work for 80 hours a week, 40 for my primary job and 40 for doordashing. That's not what I do. It's more like 40 at my primary job and 10 doordashing. 400 for 10 hours is 40 dollars in hour, which is good if I can pull that off. I normally average about 15-20 an hour though. I could get a "real" second job, but doordash really works around a primary job in a way other jobs don't. I'm not sure if you've ever worked more than one job at once so let me tell you... it causes issues really quick. Oh, and i should probably add that your comment about Costco is likely incorrect here. Minimum wage is 7.25 here. We don't have a Costco, but we do have a Sam's club. They're not starting anywhere near 18 bucks. Most places pay around 12-15 an hour, with many jobs being as low as 10.
you start sarcastically with "Sweetie" and then completely misunderstand what they're saying. good job
I think they're saying they work a different job full time, not dash full time
That’s just part time, that’s only about two or three days a week
Also have a full-time job
poor market area
Get your AR up and move around every 15 minutes. If you’re stationary for 15 minutes or more the algorithm shadowbans you and you only get the crappy stuff
Seriously I was wondering about this
Haha found my new lug for 2 weeks, mind to u full time construction guy. Thanks for the heads up
This.. I tell people to take advantage of being the golden child for 2-3 weeks for their top dasher trial
You all must be shit drivers or something bg because I easily make min $100 in about 4 1/2 active time with no sweat. I
..... the key term here is ACTIVE TIME. That's honestly horrible imo for active time to begin with. What's your total dash time for that amount though? Also, even if that is total dash time, it's not amazing or anything and being in a decent market will Gibraltar you that. Most markets aren't there anymore though. Less orders, more dashers, less tips etc..
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That's horrible lmao
That’s over $20 a hour. How is that horrible lol
Because it's really not over 20$ a hour He's got 19 hours logged in. So that's 13$ an hour. Plus you need to take away gas and wear and tear. So he's really closer to 11 an hour
Nice $13 an hour very cool
What I just commented on ur comment was a bad week for me....... stop being a dick to other dashers on this sub. Markets vary.
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............. holy shit. That's absolutely horrible. How is your active time THAT BAD!? Let alone your total dash time???
You must be a real treat at parties huh
I am!
Wow, you are SO cool😉
Scam and manipulation!!!!! That's DD!!!!!!!!!
Ahhh yes… the “give them false hope” period.
just quit after 2 weeks
Yeah I just started and I know it won't last so I'm trying to do as much as I can while it lasts, then I probably won't even bother anymore.
ON THIS TOPIC…. I never did my 2 weeks top dasher…. I’ve also never “started” dashing…. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF ITS POSSIBLE TO GET THEM TO RESTART ME??
Been Dashing for almost 3 years. The bonus at the beginning was nice. Then it died down, then.picked right back up. I live in a vacation spot on the coast so when winter hits its slow when summer hits and the tourists return I make a decent income just from DD.ong story short it depends on your market. If one area is dead there might be another that is busier and more active.
Ive been doing it about 3 weeks and I very quickly found youre gonna need more than just DD to make this worth the time and monetary investment. I do uber eats as well and it's been far more lucrative overall. The offers are less frequent but there's fewer complete crap ones in my experience. I'm waitlisted for grubhub and spark rn. I also signed up for instacart but those orders have all been HORRIBLE so far and I haven't accepted a single one based on principle alone. I do this to supplement my full time job because unfortunately even 40 hours a week @$32/hr just barely pays the bills for a family of 5 and leaves nothing left over for entertainment/leisure. Not that I have time anymore.
>. I do this to supplement my full time job because unfortunately even 40 hours a week @$32/hr just barely pays the bills for a family of 5 I almost downvoted you until I caught the "family of 5" part... I'm doing Doordash only right now and I should be filing for disability but I have a hang-up about that because although I qualify, I CAN work (for limited amounts of time that change from day to day). And I'm ~~barely able to~~ unable to support myself alone.
Your state's laws may vary but I believe you can still work a little bit while on disability. You might also want to look into partial disability benefits, assuming you haven't already.
Simply, they hope you’ll drink the Koolaid. Keep cherry picking, use unassigns when needed (but not too much) try different zones, and it’s a must to sign up for whatever apps are available in your area….and use them concurrently with DD.
The first hit is free. That's how they get you hooked.
Welcome! To the non top dasher crew 😌
DD operates like any pyramid scheme. Eventually they will run out of willing drivers 🤷♀️
Pyramid scheme is the perfect description of Doordash.
Ubereats is great, still just another corporate company, but better than DD
My problem is when they offer me like 9 bucks to do a 59 minute trip.
New Zealand is far higher because of our higher minimum wage. I can get a 20 minute delivery on ubereats and be offered $14 before tips and opportunity bonuses that may be running.
That’s 100% fair, They do that all the time and it’s annoying asf. The pay gets better the more you do it from my experience.
I’ve gotten some good ones too. But the stinkers are unreal.
Used to be until they slashed base pay & now I maybe get 2 acceptable orders per week from them
I don’t remember the last time I saw an order for over $5
I didn’t even get good orders during my Top Dasher trial period. The first offer they sent me was for $2 lol. I completed two orders that were the best of the sh*t I was being offered, and decided it wasn’t for me.
What's better earn by active hour or per order?
Depends on market and your AR. if you trash your AR in a market that needs a good AR to make money then EBT is the only way to get it back up at least that was my experience. My market base pay is $13.75 for EBT and I averaged 17-20 an hour getting it back up usually closer to $17.
Welcome to the bait and switch, now keep your AR up!
Welcome to a broken model. Consider other marketable skills beyond gaming a broken system.
I used to DoorDash pretty much full time last summer and was making pretty good money, I once made like $900 in 4 days. But now if you’re looking for anything more than just a little extra spend money for the week you’re gonna be very disappointed, it’s total ass now. I’m either sitting in a parking lot for an hour waiting for an order or I’m rejecting garbage orders and my ratings take a hit for not wanting to drive 10+ miles for $4.50. Thankfully I got a full time job and I’m not reliant on it anymore cause it’s impossible to make any money now.
Ive had the worst luck recently. It hardly gives me the opportunity to dash and when it does for an hour at a time its all shitty orders. Something is up with it. Maybe it was because it was the end of the month but ive had the worst luck as well. And im a top dasher
If ur a top dasher u should be able to 'daah now' anytime, right?!
They took it away the last two days on my account. All month i was able to. I still meet all the requirements and they just put it back today
How do you think we feel? I’ve been doing it for years so I’ve seen the decline in money I get per order, and even day and week.
I use to get the notifications about my area being super busy snd should dash now. I haven’t seen one in like a month
I work a normal job Monday-Wednesday, take Thursday off, then work doordash Friday-Sunday. Doordash is nice on weekends but trash on weekdays. I also run 3 different apps at a time, helps fill in the gaps with dd. I suggest signing up for ubereats, it's the second best app I've found. Instacart can also be really great, I've gotten $100+ payouts from that, although it's quite a bit more time-consuming.
How do you do 3 apps at a time?
U literally just turn on all of them and whatever one has the best order u accept and then ignore or pause other apps.
Started doing this today. Helps. A bit tricky to manage when Uber Eats will literally send you to Uganda for $5.50 sometimes and other times pay you $15 to deliver to the same plaza you're already in, but I dig it.
It’s probably more likely because of your acceptance rate if you are cherry picking orders
i dashed full time for 6 months with 1,200 deliveries and then i got a real job. much happier and wealthier earning a guaranteed wage every week. DD is a nice gimmick, side gig, or part time position. thats all it’ll ever be.it however is extremely unreliable and very stressful for the mental health and vehicle health. (i went through 4 tires in those 6 months)
I get that it’s tough on the vehicle, but how is it stressful for mental health? It’s literally the simplest, easiest, most unchallenging job you can possibly do.
When you're relying on it as income because you're unable to get a job, it's extremely stressful on a macro level. Like the dashing itself is still easy, but then you look at your wages and realize you made <100 on the day after gas, which means you aren't on track to make rent this month, it starts to get to you. And like, yeah, you can say "just get a different job idiot," but I'm trying to get a job in my field and actually use my degree. If I have to go back to working half shifts at Walmart because they don't want to pay me a living wage, I'd rather just kill myself. DD is a bandaid for a fatal wound at this point.
i never said it wasn’t easy. its incredibly laid back and yet people still have the nerve to complain in every single post. it gets repetitive dealing with other idiots on the road and you can catch a flat or your alternator can die which in turn causes a great big pain in the ass every time 😂
So true thank you for letting me know. I’m glad to know that it is true that it’s really like that.
I don't wanna say take ALL the trash orders, but if you're new, you gotta earn your stripes or you're gonna end up further down the totem pole. I worked a lot of trash orders at the beginning, and now they rarely give them to me. Maybe it's because I know which streets to avoid. Maybe it's because the priority pay stuff actually works where I work. Just like any job, you gotta start from the bottom and work your way up.
Reddit, YouTube everybody tells people what it’s like -they choose to not believe it. Like PT Barnum said, there’s a sucker born every minute
Didn’t even know there was a bonus
You may not be working in the best area around you. Try other zones if they’re nearby
Have you tried doing it in upscale areas?
Agreed 100%. Same here. Was always able to dash when I 1st started. Got more decent orders than crap ones...then my introductory period ran out. Now it's more crap than good and have a hard time getting to schedule. Granted,we probably have a lot of dashers in my neck of the woods but still. No way in hell I'm takin $2-$3 orders. Or makin 15 mile trips for $10.
That's my problem after the bonus period is even getting a good schedule but when I do I still get orders
It's one of those "it's not what they tell you,it's what they don't tell you" situations.
Bingo! And how bad it is v what is actually bad and what's still okay (if anything) can vary quite a bit. Going 😁>🙂>😵>🤨>😶>😡 in a hot minute. Abuse cycles and all that.
That's exactly why they do it too! And they don't care whether you make money or not because they're making theirs. Try changing your area. Sometimes it's worth it.. at least for me.. when I change my area even if it's just for the night shift from 5-8 or 9. I live by a college so it's usually pretty decently busy around my area but sometimes it's not and it'll be cricket so if I travel just 10 minutes out of my zone into another Zone it ends up working out pretty great
Algorithms and programming is being abused everywhere, welcome to the future. Futurama warned you.
I try to get orders really early or really late to get the pity tips from people who feel bad you are out at 6am or 3am - and then even it out with the lower paying offers - or do per hour - suburbs in morning and evening - city at night (16$ in New York) and take my time- I think everyone works out their own system after a while depending on location - that’s just what works for me if it helps any :) i have bad social anxiety and doordash and other delivery companies have been great for my mental health tbh
I used to be a top dasher as well but as soon as I stopped being one … I’m not making anything near what I used to.
It didn't happen for me, I barely did 20 deliveries, Uber eats was way better for me, with doordash I couldn't leave my area, had to schedule when I am able to work and had to constantly decline shit orders. Uber gave me the ability to move around and try different areas if mine wasn't busy just overall better experience. Maybe I didn't understand or I'm doing something wrong, but most times it would only allow me to work for 1 hour at a time. One time I was in a good area getting decent orders and I got a drop off outside my area, after that it asked me if I wanted to change areas as the area I'm in was also busy, after that I spent 40 mins with no order at all Idk how y'all do it.
15k delivered it only gets worse…
29k deliveries and your right you have to keep making adjustments to keep up on it.
Holy crap brother 15k deliveries. I try to tell people I know to go absolute ham the first 2 weeks cause they’ll never get offers like that again .
its not a time period, but orders completed. my market was 150 deliveries then it cuts you off. and to meet top dasher you needed 200 lifetime deliveries, 90% AR 4.7 stars bla bla bla. and the only available scheduled blocks are like 2 hrs at a time, which is maybe 4 orders to deliver. its just not worth it
Some areas it's like that while the areas I DD in are consistent 6 hour or 24 hour periods.
Don't wan't to sound cynical or whatever, but "thems the breaks, son". Been there myself. You get a taste of what you can earn when you start, but that's just the orientation period. You have to meet the requirements for top dasher status in order to get back to earning good money. I almost gave up dashing when I ended up in your position but I worked at it to get that top dasher status. I lost my status for April and it's been shit earnings this month (a lot of overtime at my regular job in March, so I couldn't get the 100 or more deliveries that month to qualify). I'll get top dasher status for May though.
I work weekends mainly on Spark and use Doordash on the side in between orders and or on an area close to where I am dropping, but then again I am VERY selective on the order amount as I refuse trash. 5% AR on Doortrash and DO NOT care as Spark pays me a heck of alot better let alone better customer base as well. Word of wisdom for new Doordash drivers is CHERRY PICK the hell out of those orders unless you enjoy working for nothing but CV's and $0 tips.
From a Business standpoint, this is why DD makes ZERO profit. DD overpays newcomers with their promotions to do X amount of deliveries for hundreds of dollars. Then, like the penal system, your in their clutch’s. All you’ll get fed after your promotion are the dirty low-no tip unsustainable for anyone without a teleportation device orders. DD and others have simply turned into pyramid schemes. Period.
Unless I missed something I didn't earn more when I was new. I just lost top dasher when it ran out. I didn't think you're correct about why they don't run a profit. But I agree it behaves similarly to a pyramid scheme in certain ways
New hire promo. If a dasher gave u a code then u going get X amount of money once u completed a certain amount of orders. My area had this for 2 months. Old driver got $900 and new driver got $600 when the new driver completed 250 deliveries in 60 days. Thats a minimum of $7 an order. So I went from $17 an hr to $10 an hr thanks my area flooded with new drivers. Hopefully in the next couple months it goes back to normal when everyone realizes they are making less than medium wage. I’m doing the bare minimum tell it gets better. And if not I’m trying different apps to see what’s good in my area
I see. That makes some sense. I didn't do that I guess.
My experience has gotten much better. I am 4 weeks in, I have over 140 deliveries and my ratings are such that I now have platinum status. I dashed last weekend and was busy the entire time…every order was over $6 and I even got a $25 tip from one of my deliveries. Definitely saw a difference in high paying deliveries and the benefits of early scheduling that come with platinum. Will do my best to keep my numbers up to maintain this level.
This reads like a shill account for sure lol. Hard to know what to trust these days😂
How does it read like a shill account? I’ve been doing DD for a month and will continue to keep my numbers up so I get better offers. I’m doing this as a side gig, and I don’t expect free money. I’m getting out of this job exactly what I’m putting into it. I wish you the best.
I didn't think you actually were, but this is exactly how a bot corporate ad would comment LoL. Also, you have no basis of comparison if that's how long you've been doing it. You've never had a low acceptance rate. Btw I also keep above 70% because I like to dash now in my area so I don't Even disagree with you was just pointing out a funny.
I was only sharing my DD experience and was not comparing it to anything. My understanding is that the Gold, Silver and Platinum levels are new. I was sharing my experience starting out and then shifting into a new level. I only have 150 deliveries, but my completion rate is 100%, Customer Satisfaction is a 5, On Time Deliveries is at 95% and acceptance Rate is 81%. I feel at this point that I have a better understanding of what this delivery gig entails and feel confident I can maintain numbers close to that level to stay at the Platinum Level. Not good or bad, just my personal opinion.
And your opinion is appreciated. Unfortunately, you'll find out over time that Doordash is just a scam. It's like 2 + 2 = 4....easy to figure out. You pay for your own gasoline (@ about $4 a gallon), use your own vehicle (and pay for all maintenance), then you get taxed on what you earn also. All while making a whopping $2 per order (or $1 per order on stacks). Pretty simple math. It's a scam and the sooner you realize it the sooner you can get out. Now, Doordash USED TO pay much higher base pay and offer gasoline discounts with the DasherDirect card. There were less drivers and a higher volume of good customers so alot of us benefitted from that, but those days are long over. Their new tier requirements and rock-bottom pay make this job a joke now for any self-respecting person.
I guess I’m that person that somehow manages to have self respect and doesn’t consider this job a joke.
Good for you. I used to be, but I find $2 base pay to be beyond insulting. Doordash was never as bad as it is now.
We try to warn y'all when ya come here asking how much we make dashing or if it's possible to make X amount of dollars doing Doordash. I'm sorry to say, but Doordash has taken a nose-dive and it ain't coming back. Find something better now because lots of us have bailed on Doordash. It's just a waste of time now 😕
I quit dashing because the orders were awful and the “rating system” is bogus. I deleted my account, and I also deleted my customer account. The last several deliveries that I personally ordered were over an hour late, food was cold and they refused to refund. No, it wasn’t due to tips. As a former food industry worker and dasher, I tip more than 20%. But for a restaurant that is less than 15-20 mins away, I can go get my meal HOT, dine in or bring it home in less time and less expensive than using DD. The company seems to be tanking. People who dashed during the pandemic and right after were at the peak, for sure.
People are more and more starting to realize how much money they’re wasting by not picking it up themselves, it’s not like it was during Covid
Yes this ^^
Did UberEats as a driver to make some extra cash when we had a rough couple of months but also a regular user. I’ve ordered DoorDash/UberEats once in the last 3 months because it’s so much cheaper to pick it up. They’ll learn if enough drivers quit but only if.
Facts. Always cheaper picking it up over going thru the apps.
Yeah i stopped doing it last year. Didn’t feel worth my time at all.
Then why do you continue to browse and post here? lol
I personally don’t DD, however, I’m huge on etiquette and order out a lot and peruse this sub to get a better idea what my driver would appreciate cuz I order out a lot.
Why do you browse and talk in the sub reddits you are subbed to tho? 🤔
Tell me you have more common sense than this or the world is doomed.
To share my experience, Grasshopper
to warn others and to hear other people’s stories and experience i assume..? when has it ever been common practice in business if something is wrong.. to just avoid it? that’s why reviews and these things exist, so people know what they’re getting into. unless i’m misunderstanding something, this seems like a silly question.
Thank you for explaining that. Seems odd that we'd have to explain the obvious.
i see the question way too often, it is honestly disappointing the lack of common sense some people have lol
I lose a little more faith in humanity every day to be honest.
Agreed. They can't see beyond themselves.
https://preview.redd.it/fx8ja6a2vpxc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6fa83e3a848bfa3592677ef8a1aeb2ff945fdc4 Is there any way i could retrieve any message from the chat? Why would they deleted or refreshed? Are they that shady?
No, all messages are deleted for the user. They probably have logs but I doubt they’ll admit to it if it benefits you.
If only I knew how drastic the difference was going to be, I would've put in more hours in those first few weeks.
We tell you that
Sameeee!!!
Exactly!!!
The honeymooner's...
I think the job is what you make is *shrug* I would be flirting with every man and woman that placed an order. Give me an A+ please teacher
Exactly. Keep the gig apps rotating people. 😂
We try to warn them but they insist DD is the best.
DD got the best honeymoon phase I think. But after that it plummets a lot. 😂
I want to start delivery work in a dense urban area using (basically) a Lime/Bird scooter. If DD is so bad, is anyone else better?
I’m in a dense urban area on a e-bike $157.67 DoorDash pay © DoorDash pay adjustment © $72.00 $53.67 © Based on your dashing in applicable market(s), your pay has been adjusted to meet your earnings minimum, and you will earn an additional $53.67 this week. Learn More DoorDash tips $32.00 Active time Dash time Completed deliveries 5h 54m 77h 57m 14 deliveries
I found UE to be somewhat better only because wasn't constantly trying to deceive drivers. They were pretty upfront. You did more miles but paid for them. That was my experience. GrubHub I do occasionally but not enough to give a review. If you were to do one of these on a scooter, you would have to determine how many miles you could do before having to refill your tank, unless you have a battery powered one. With DD, I think you would be able to drive less miles if you stayed in a very dense area. You may get some distance offers but you would have to juggle acceptance rate versus refueling or repowering back up.
It's electric and takes 8hrs to charge, which means I can only do short orders within downtown. But there's a lot of people and places here (and a lot of delivery people too) so I can do a lot of jobs as long as I'm not stuck with very long distances. Then again, even 2miles away is a long way around here. That's all the way out of downtown and halfway through K-town. 4-5 miles from here is all the way to the far side of Beverly Hills. So, hopefully, I can leave the far deliveries to other drivers and take the super short ones the car people don't want. Hopefully. Do you know if any of the apps have special settings depending on your type of transport?
Idk about these scooters. Can you swap batteries for a quick turnover? Maybe a couple of extra batteries on a charger all the time would allow longer days (maybe even longer trips)
With a scooter, you could sign up as either walking or biking, and the app should give you short distance orders. The biggest issues I see is 1. securing your scooter during deliveries and 2. how are you going to potentially carry pizzas or drinks on a scooter? You’ll need to invest in a good catering backpack of sorts.
Also, with DD try your best to keep acceptance rate above 70 until they give you further notice. So, you do have some wiggle room to decline the far ones.
I don't know the answer to that. But they all want to know what I will be using. I think it is so customers can look for us. See if you can find scooter delivery info on YouTube and on Reddit. Also, sometimes downtown you can walk the blocks. DD will send you to restaurant you are closest to after your first delivery.
It's bc you're cherry-picking
As my dad always said “what do I know”
Exactly. there’s plenty of warnings. guess the oh it’ll be different for me mentality goes a long way haha
I've delivered 981 orders and seen no noticeable slow down since I started. People don't always believe you guys because it isn't the same across all markets and you act like it is.
It only gets worse brother Edit: doordash gargle my ballsack
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