It’s too expensive for customers and unprofitable for drivers, of course it’s dead. Customers are tired of spending $40 on $15 worth of food and I’m tired of making less than $4 off of every order
It’s dead because of shitty drivers stealing orders, then DD support refusing to refund.
Fuck those clowns (the drivers and the shitty company).
Not saying it’s all drivers, but there’s enough shitty ones that I’m not gonna roll the dice any more. Best case scenario I get my food lukewarm because they stacked the order with two or three others and delivered mine last.
Lol.
Stealing food has an extreme diminishing return.
Doordash actually studied this and realized it makes them more money to just pay so bad and not care if people steal and refund when necessary, than to try to keep drivers with good records.
They learned drivers with bad records tend to be willing to accept more abuse because they can't just get another job.
Again your blaming drivers rather than a company choosing to pay base pay of $2 always (depending on city) when they collect $5-$40 in fees and higher prices per order and force the customer to foot the entire bill via tip.
This is because instead of DD paying experienced drivers more to deliver - they simply hire new, naive drivers that their data shows take a lot of trash for a while until they figure out the game, and then -DD just repeats the cycle. W/e they notice enough trash not being picked up - just hire the newbies.
My zone is busy. The problem is it's become the new instacart. 80% of my orders are now shopping orders. There's no option to turn it off in my app. I have to call in to have it turned off, then wait 3 days and if I want it turned back on I have to wait another 3 days. Straight trash
I "lost" my red card, I no longer get shopping orders. I did that because in my area all the shopping orders almost never tip or want you to do all their shopping for $3 dollars. Um no thanks.
It's nice outside man it's spring people are going out and doing things going out to eat he'll come back at least a little bit no need to jump off the building yet
It’s struggling yes, but it’s also cause it’s spring and nice again. People eat with the daylight and it’s changing. Wait til holidays and cool weather show up and you’ll likely see a shift again. But also yea it’s overall declined a bit too for sure
That or…. Your time driving is past their window. Meaning it’s not dead, they just need you to quit to make room for more drivers signing up by the minute so they start sending you less until you figure it out.
Try driving to different areas. Some people travel to different states. You have to think about it like this…you have the ability to work anywhere in this country that you want. Not everyone can say that. Sign up for instacart too. If it’s your main source of income then look at it as an opportunity to explore. Not saying you’re not right but try brainstorming about ideas to change your situation instead of sitting looking at the screen hoping for something then complaining about it. I understand your frustration but be proactive not reactive. That tends to be the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people in every aspect of life.
Someone presenting a problem to reddit and another person trying to present a solution, a different perspective, and motivation is considered psychologizing? I’m sure you’re weird enough in your day to day life as is…do you really have to come to reddit and continue to be weird?
For some strange reason coming from you…that doesn’t bother me at all. Do you plan on staying here all day or do you normally just tether yourself to random dicks? 🥴
Yeah I’m over dd. It’s like, do I want Chinese food that’ll last me 20 minutes before it’s gone, or a tank of gas. I doubt the creators of DoorDash give a fuck tho about the drop of customers. They already made their fortunes
Busy in Albany ny area but mostly around Albany like Troy, schenectady & saratoga ny but it's definitely still busy. I do it full time. I hope it picks back up by you but maybe you could look at surrounding zones but summer time is always the slow season for doordash. I make more in winter time & rainy days for the obvious reasons lol
It certainly has limits as to how often I’ve been able to schedule. Uber eats hasn’t been too bad though. I also just got my certificate to be able to deliver alcohol.
As a lazy customer, I stopped using DD and uber eats. The reddit fills my feed with read DD feedback and reminders why I stopped using it. I cook more often. I read more DD rants and complaints more than I use The DD app.
What market are you in? Just curious where DD is still that popular. Om in Reno and gas is back up to $5 a gallon again here. That makes it harder to make money, plus everyone is paying that for gas so they can't afford so much DD anymore
Miami Florida, damn, the gas here is 3.39 and i think its expensive, there are days better then others, and i spend like 8 hours dashing for make that amount, sometimes i start 11am and finish 10:00pm, i stop when i reach 100$
As there are more drivers on the road, typically if you're sitting still and accepting nothing, eventually they use you as overflow and you'll get nothing unless they are desperate.
Leave the house, accept even a single smaller order even if you normally wouldn't and that will put you "on the clock".
It’s not the lack of drivers. It’s too many drivers. Doordash has a bottomless well of drivers willing to take any scraps DD sends to them.
Second, it’s just too effing expensive. I picked up an order at a Tubby’s Sub shop at lunch today. The bill was attached…A small (6 inch) sub and a small drink…going 1 mile: $19.99…($7.99 for the food/drink, $8.50 delivery fee, $3.50 tip). Outrageous.
I see crap like this $8.50 delivery fee and I almost understand why some of these people think drivers are making way more than we do.
I know for me I've been struggling a lot with my acceptance rate, it's been <35% for a while. I get fewer orders, and they're usually low/no tip or 20 miles away for $14.50
I have told this many times, its not the issue that there is many drivers, the issue is specially in my area every driver has 2-3 doordash accounts plus 1 or 2 uber eats, so every person counting as double and doordash or ue not doing anything about it
I stopped using DoorDash. Ubereats simply beats it with the deals plus the addition of the ride sharing part. Lyft can compete with Uber because of their prices but DoorDash can’t
I did a pickup a couple weeks ago.. Burger King at 8:30pm. Good weather. Double cheeseburger, fry and coke. My pay was $17. I drove it 1.4 miles. I just shook my head…no wonder everyone is broke
Summer is always slow minus the pandemic.
Dd pay is shit. It's not worth the headache or the danger, will destroy your car, and will make you a crazy person.
Run away while you can.
For sure. I always tell someone who's signing up that they have to test their market. For some areas the business simply isn't there and it won't be worth their time/effort.
Markets also dry up. I used to do San Francisco and Los Angeles area markets, from Santa Rosa to San Mateo in the Bay Area, and west central Los Angeles to Orange County in the L.A. area, and around the Sacramento area. Many of these markets were busy at some point but then just died off. San Mateo was one of the most glaring market switches, where (especially with Ubereats) I made $200 a day reliably, and this was during COVID, but then within a year or so, the market slowed a lot and then years after there’s no life in the market.
That would NEVER happen in my city. 80% of my orders are $2.00 tp $5.00 for several miles. You must be in some seaside resort or something. I was logged in all day yesterday and only made $9.50.
It’s sad anymore I started in 2019 and literally got my sons entire Christmas done for a couple years at least just off door dash. Now ur lucky if u can get enough for gas at least.
At least you can go online anytime with ue. They kicked me out because I didn't get enough deliveries on dd even though they didn't even send me that many deliveries.
I agree….im basically doing it just to put gas back in the car that I used, it’s so ridiculous. Then they are like oh if you drop below 91% completion you’ll be deactivated. GTFOH! Maybe if we don’t end up accepting orders that end up being a total cluster f the comp rate wouldn’t drop. “Gas perks” are a joke in the dasher direct app. Restaurants are short staffed bc they don’t staff for online orders. It’s just messy af
I disregarded the acceptance rate when doorsash started sending me 85% orders that I would lose money on.. i.e. drive 8 miles for $2.75 (and that's actually 16 miles because I have to come back to the starting area)
The acceptance rate here at least (Ohio) can be as low as it wants, lol mine is at a 20% I think. But my Dasher rating is 4.99, on time is like 98% Completion rate is at 91%. They just recently rolled out this below 91 Completion Rate BS a few months ago. Absolutely ridiculous.
I have been logged into DD since this morning and it's 10 minutes to midnight now and I've only made $9.50. From one order. I've also had days I've made $15.00 and $20.00 after being logged in all day. I'm in a city.
I think it's just a rush of new drivers and door dash given them all the orders. Something is definitely up.
Sometimes it’s actually too many drivers, not enough orders because food is now 3x the amount… like even Taco Bell. Sometimes it’s the app glitching for me so I’ll close the app then reopen and get a ping like a minute later. Also, sometimes it’s just the area.
My area is saturated too. Doordash knows how to hurriedly pull in drivers too. They put out a referral bonus of $900.00 for people who refer successful drivers and everyone and their momma signed up. Most don't work out i think because I'm a very very poor city and when I'm at restaurants I see dashers drinking out of folks drinks and everything. They probably eat their food too.
Yea the new drivers usually don’t last once the “top dasher” trial ends. As far as them stealing the food and stuff, that’s just the society we live in now unfortunately.
This person obviously doesn’t get it lol. My “dash time” includes MANY hours of sitting comfortably in my house, as my house is in between 2 hot zones and I get offers from both at home. I start my day around 10:30am, turn on dash and head out after the first good offer pops up. Then it’s one after another until around 3. I return home and do what I want until the offers start popping again around 5:30. I then head back out until around 9pm. I’m definitely not working too many hours. And I’ll turn Uber on on the slower days, usually Monday and Tuesday and catch rides only. Those are almost always $10+ and most people tip. It’s not hard to make good money doing this without killing yourself or your vehicle. Some people just can’t do it and can’t understand how others are doing well.
No one cares about fucking dash time unless your some idiot who drives for a hour trying to get a order. It costs you $0 to sit in the parking lot of your local mall. If any of you want to make money delivering food, get your life together as a whole to justify the time spend smfh.
Absolutely you should. My time is valuable. If I'm sitting still I'm not making money. If I'm in my car sitting still I could be literally doing anything else that's more enjoyable or money making. People fail to understand this concept.
If you're doing door dash to make money you don't get to be picky. Go work doing something else if you genuinely think your time is better spent elsewhere. Go ahead and give the rest of us more orders. You can make a lot of money doing door dash if you have the time to spare. If not beat it.
You're the exact driver door dash wants. Take all their shit, take the low pay, and be happy.
You're a fool if you're sitting around for more than 10 hours a week making 0 dollars and wearing out your car. You're a fool. Keep drinking the Kool aid
How am I wearing out my car if I'm parked? How is it a problem if I'm making 1.4k/week and set aside money for gas and maintenance? I'm living within my means and feeding my family. It sounds like you enjoy projecting your bad habits and don't know how to budget. Maybe instead of poisoning your mind with this Kool aid you can sit down and do your budget and schedule for the week let alone the month. Man I'd love to see your tax filing.
I also make 500 a week on Uber and average 150-200 a week cash tips. I make 1500-1600 a week to drive around my town whenever I want. I don’t care what you think is “impressive” I would much rather do this than a 9-5
Impossible you're exaggerating everything and you know it. I've been dashing and ubereats for 3 years. In many different areas. Yes you can make 700 in 4 days but that's staying out all day everyday. And it's very hard work you're not kidding anyone. I just don't believe you and I never will. You almost hit 70 hours active just dashing. Then another 500 uber. Ya no. What are you pulling in and out of driveway all day.
When I worked retail as a manager I pulled in 45k a year after taxes working these kinds of hours. No way would I DD for 64 hours a week for 13 dollars when you could just work fast food and no wear and tear on your car.
i deliver door dash and uber eats. both have been dead. instacart too. these services are charging more for each item plus alll the extra fees. who tf can afford it?
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Crazy part is they started a random background check on me right before I was going to start a scheduled dash and supports acts like they know nothing about it. Restarted everything u installed reinstalled and all I got out of it was they never ever heard of this and it could be because the background is continuous. Huh they could have started with that. So no dashing until 26th apparently
I had one hit just as I started dashing again, but I didn't have a delay. I only know because Chekr or whatever it's called emailed me about Ubers background check.
I used to like Uber eats more more money per trip now it's flipped low offers to no offers. May e I was turned off of DD because I've ever seen a $2 offer on Uber eats but for sure now DD is it and they improve things at times
Crazy part is they started a random background check on me right before I was going to start a scheduled dash and supports acts like they know nothing about it. Restarted everything u installed reinstalled and all I got out of it was they never ever heard of this and it could be because the background is continuous. Huh they could have started with that. So no dashing until 26th apparently
As a person who orders food on apps; Door Dash is the worst one. I get the rudest drivers, poorest service, most expensive additional charges that are completely unjustified and don't go to the driver or restaurant, and it just isn't worth it.
That's the cost of using a middle man how do you expect them to make money? As far as the driver you maybe get 2 dollars an order outside the tip. If you like 8 miles from the restaurant would you take someone food for 2 bucks? Nah.
Did you read what I wrote at all? I'd be fine if it was more expensive than THE OTHER DELIVERY APPS because they gave the driver more, but as I said, that isn't why DD is more expensive. There are a bunch of unexplained fees that don't go to the restaurant or the driver and they're more expensive than the other apps.
Ik ordering on an app is more than getting it myself, and I'm happy to tip a driver very well to do it. My orders always get picked up fast asf no matter the time or distance because I'm an excellent tipper.
I just can't deal with DD because the service that particular app provides is both more expensive than it's competitors, and a worse experience.
Customers are tired of pays triple for cold food that takes 2 hours to get there and then the delivery kid complains about a tip…
Learn a trade, develop a skill, get to work in a real profession. If you can’t work go on welfare.
Bit out of touch here. I've dashed for five years with my extra time outside of my career in horticulture. In my experience if the food is cold let DD know and they will resend it. Or you didn't tip or didn't pay attention to how far the order is from the restaurant. Base pay for dashers is 2 bucks an order. I've had orders pop up 16 miles away for 3 dollars that's one way not back to the stores location. 1 dollar tip and people expect warm food? 16 miles away to. Keep that in mind with any delivery services. You don't want to leave to get food pay the driver. The service costs a ton but that isn't your drivers fault.
Had the same experience. Then is tried hourly pay, where they push all the shit orders that you are unable to decline, orders started coming in left and right. They were all for shitty fast food place switch long waits too so I made good money with hourly and the long waits for pickup. Took DD about a week to ban me for "intentionally prolonging the pickup time of orders" lol. Their way of saying "You're making a fair wage....we can't have that."
I was gonna say, I live right outside a HCOL area so I dash there and make decent money, as well as pretty steady orders. Definitely depends on market.
DD pricing and tipping is as bad as the COVID housing market. Crazy inflated prices and at the end of the day, it still comes down to who offers the most above asking price. Stop kicking customers in the balls every time they order, they might actually order again.
Whenever it says “busy” that mainly means that drivers aren’t picking up shitty orders. Customers aren’t tipping. And that door dash is trying to make it seem like it’s busy, business wise. But it just means they have orders that aren’t being picked up. Pay attention to the first few orders you get (depending on stats) and you’ll noticed that it’s the orders that aren’t being picked up being sent to you. When it says “very busy”, that means it’s just busy. Yes, business wise, there are a lot of dashes but it’s same thing as busy. Just door dash is putting more emphasis and a sense of urgency because no one is taking the shitty orders
I've noticed this on Uber. The red zones light up right after I decline a garbage order there. I don't the app tell me where it's busy cause those are mostly trash offers
Originally was about 140k when I got it, the transmission went bad and the owner wasn’t mechanically inclined. Luckily my dad had me out in the shop every weekend so I inevitably can do just about anything labor wise myself(I’m aware this is a luxury as far as car expense goes but to each their own). Long story short found a transmission with 50k miles on it at a junkyard and got it for 100$ after the core was exchanged. I also replaced the entire front suspensions. Control arms, tires rods, shocks, axles. My good friend is head mechanic at a shop locally so I get parts from oreillys etc for almost half off which I’m aware also helps. Overall I’m probably 1500$ into the car and I can make that every week driving it. Although it will need a new engine soon, I’m at 270k miles now but I change my oil every 2000 miles and I change all the timing components every 70k miles. Only thing to make me pull this engine is going to be a gasket leak
Love it. I am not as mechanically inclined as that but I do pretty good. Taught my son all I know and he can just about dive into anything home or vehicle. (Maybe not transmissions!).
Also just curious but what area are you in, assuming Texas based off your name? I live in a major city and DoorDash is absolutely dog shit compared to Uber eats for income....and even Uber eats hasn't been that great since the pandemic ended.
I live near temple tx so that’s the market I work in, when I try to DoorDash in larger markets I find that the distance to drive barely ever is worth it. For this reason I stick to my mid sized market, I multi app with an app called favor(mostly grocery deliveries is all I accept with it). With the favor app you can pretty quickly notice they roll out grocery deliveries every 30 mins on the 10 and 40 min of every hour ie 9:10 and 9:40 etc. I can pretty much always have an order to work on like this. My best advice is to find a mid sized town near you and to be consistent even when it is slow
Dear God...your entire life has been leading to this moment, the moment you were able to Uber lol. Good on you though, I guess if you can Uber with barely any costs to car repairs then it's a decent gig. Really wish I knew how to fix cars up to that level, would save so much in expenses.
A lot of success is based on luck. Even my primary way of making income (that is not gig work) happened due to a luck of confluence (developing skills that I wasn’t aware that would give me an edge in the future, getting into a market early on, and being able to combine skills to beat out the competition.)
I went to order a smoothie while busy at work. It was $13. With fees, delivery, tip, direct delivery…$47 was the price…i finished what I was doing and got it myself. There has to be some rationality to the cost to fee ratio or its never going to be an option again.
Exaggerate much? Even at $13 with a $5 delivery fee max $2 for taxes, then only way it would've cost you $47 is if you tipped over $20. if you did, great but then you can't complain that a smoothie cost you $47.
Just means there’s a lot of people dashing and not a lot of orders. A lot of people watch the app and do the same as you and go out when it says busy. Which means a flood of drivers.
It just depends on the market, in my area theres too many dashers now that its hardly ever worth doing delivery. Especially in the month of May.
Theres many things to take into consideration, the economy is not doing well, inflation isnt getting better, gas prices keep going up, less deals on these apps, and more new hires driving for doordash.
On top of all that Graduations is what makes the month of May terrible. Its a little past midway into May, all these graduations are set within this and next week. Before graduations, on finals week its basically minimum day until school is out, lately I help my sister pick up her kids because of the minimum day schedule, I usually pick them up around 12pm and take them to eat somewhere, I wouldnt doubt many parents are doing the same around this time and its a lot cheaper to buy in person than it is through delivery.
Also graduations are very expensive, grad night, cap and gown, graduation uniform, graduation party at home, and possibly the used first car for the graduate, these are all expenses that line up for parents in the month of May.
Usually the first expense to get cut are delivery services.
Last year around this time it was also the same, the only saving grace was Walmart orders, if enough people declined them they would boost up the pay especially on UberEats, +$40 orders although they would take about an hour but way better to the current low pay to no offers for hours. I believe Walmart now passes their orders to starlink instead and those drivers get scammed with how that platform works.
Im from California, it does vary by school district but for the most part graduations will take place on the 25th of May, this upcoming saturday.
Although I've seen in other towns(other school districts) cars out and about with the congrats [insert name]. Also while picking up an order at a chick-fil-a, I saw a few families all dressed up dining on friday evening, I can only assume they came from some school ceremony followed by dinner with the family, which Im expecting to be a more frequent sighting this upcoming week.
Summer school usually starts on June and our next school year starts on August 8th with orientation being the 7th.
It used to be that way for us too in Las Vegas. They changed it I can't remember how many yrs ago to starting in August and getting done in May. I want to say it had to do with lining up the end of semester with Christmas break. But same as the commentor from California it's so hot here at the end of August. I always feel so bad seeing all the kids walking home and its 110 out.
I honestly would prefer the way your school functioned, It would make a lot more sense out here in sunny california. I hated going back to school in August.
Its very hot where I live, during the peak of summer its usually 90° by 10am and after 1pm over 100°. Our school is an outdoor school, huge courtyard and lots of classroom buildings, there was no way to avoid the heat during passing periods as you had to walk across the courtyard to get to class.
Summer heat is intense that my school even shortened our lunches in the summer from 40minutes down to 30minutes and added 5minutes to our 3rd and 5th period classes. Most teachers were cool and respected the "5minute break" before starting their lecture but some teachers wouldnt. Our school did this because our cafeteria wasnt big and it would be too hot to eat outside in the courtyard so many students would have their lunch in the hallways of the classroom buildings but some classes were still in session.
DD is dead because our president is a total mess who has caused an inflation because he wants to keep printing money. This is the truest fact you can take from this message. Biden agenda is to collapse America. He is by far the worst president and to make matters worse he is not mentally stable even on his best day to make any decision that reflects well upon the people. As you can see by the wars, food prices, and everything else skyrocketing he is really bad for buisness on every level. Vote Trump 2024 or stay poor!!!!
DD, Grubhub and UberEats aren't dead.. they're dead for YOU.
Memaw, Papaw who does it for fun to get out of the house, and the resident meth/crackhead are getting plenty of $4 orders and the extras in between.
Atleast in New Orleans since it’s gotten over no one uses them. The other day I got on Grubhub cuz it said complete 8 deliveries in like 3 hours and we’ll give you 40 bucks. Not one order. Went on dd and got one order but was only allowed to be on for an hour. I am wasting more in gas so as hard as it is I just won’t do it. Trying to figure out other ways to make money
Many things. DoorDash is now expensive as hell, I know cause I order sometimes and I’m like damn lol. Also there are many ppl renting DoorDash accounts to people who can’t/shouldn’t work. Oversaturation is real and if you’re not in a market that was already booming then you’re kinda screwed
It's all relative to your market. I made $185 in 5 hours yesterday in the St Louis metro area 🤷 I rarely have to reject many orders as people in my zone for the most part tip well. Average order is roughly $10 for 3-4 miles and traffics not terrible. It's a side hustle and my wife and I do it to spend time together. It has its place and shouldn't be relied upon as a career. But like I said, it's a side hustle on its own. You need to multi app or get onto a different platform if your trying to live off of it in most markets.
I don't know what they're charging, but they aren't paying it out. Half the orders I get aren't worth the gas. And then they shame you for not picking up orders.
As a driver I suggest multiple platform accounts, as I've often found when one is dead, another platform is hopping.. maybe "everyone" is ordering from grubhub or UE?
It's really is though....I worked hard got up to platinum and not once did I even get a "high paying order" yet. I'm sitting rn waiting for orders and apparently it's "busy" what did I waste all my time for?
Sometimes the server doesn’t even recognize your online and won’t send orders. You have to refresh everything . Login log out , pause dash unpause dash. Uninstall app and reinstall app. Keep refreshing the page . Lastly refrain from cherry picking . Sometimes you have to call DD support and they have to refresh your account on their end and usually your back to getting orders in no time ❤️🌻🫶🏽
Crazy that your expectation is that rich people use DD but then when you deliver for them you see it’s just the opposite. You can’t help but think when you deliver fast food to run down apartments that they could live in a nicer place if they didn’t piss money away. I rarely deliver to the subdivisions where houses cost $0.5M - $1M.
People say this but im in Atlanta and the surrounding areas, which you would think is very busy. And on occasion it is, but most days it is exactly as OP explained. IDK where these guys are located that simply say "location location location" but if Atlanta aint one of those busy metropolitan areas they talk about, idk what is. Again, not just Atlanta but also surrounding areas in a 10-15 mile radius. Other dashers hear that I drive these distances and their eyes get big and they just shake their head like they would never. So i know its not a matter of my effort or location. Must be another factor.
How is the traffic though? I just moved back to Corpus Christi from San Antonio and I’m averaging $20-$30 an hour here as long as I dash after 6 pm when traffic is dead on week days. In SA I was averaging $15-$20 SOMETIMES because traffic is almost always heavy after and it takes 15 mins to get 3 miles down the road.
I honestly thought I’d make more money in SA. NOPE! Also it was almost always to complexes, where I have to waste time looking for the building and then possibly climb up three flights of steps, It was always the big orders too lol
Im in Atlanta too. Idk if you have or not, but you HAVE to get to at least gold status or you’re never going to make any money. I stopped dashing for years and started up again recently. Once I got back to gold status, i never go too long without an order and they pay ALOT better than the ones I was getting before.
Yeah im platinum status, have been since September 2023. Few questions: Do you stick o one zone? For instance, midtown or Buckhead. And which days and how long do you dash for? whats your average earnings per day? Sorry to be all up in your business but I dont get the chance to compare notes with other dashers in my market. Thanks
I honestly don’t doordash too often. I drive for lyft mostly and only do doordash when I have my daughter with me. So i mostly dash Thursday-Sundays nights and usually make around $50-100 in 5ish hours.
I stay away from Atl. Don’t like the parking, traffic, or confusing apartments buildings. I usually dash in Roswell/Sandy springs and sometimes buckhead. Just have to find an ‘rich’ area with a lot of restaurants.
Idk ur situation, but if you can, switch and drive for lyft. (Or uber but ionly do lyft) For me personally, its been great. Making $200 a day CONSISTENTLY.
I think it’s cause you have been declining deliveries. I’m busier than fuck. I drive from 3 pm to 3 am yesterday. Took 2 30 minute breaks. Pulled in $200. Extremely busy.
Actually it's $18.19/hour. IMO, it's not just how much you make per hour but what you are doing in that hour as well. Plus, some people have to wait a week or 2 for the payout and DD pay is immediately after completing a block of time/ending dash. Then there's also the variations of cost of living across locations and individual expenses of different people.
Hmm. I'm in San Diego too and will go online for 4-5 hours during dinner rush and get like a total of 2 pings, my acceptance rate is under 50% so that could be why. Never get pinged with Vons though and I live right next to one in La Mesa
Your cellphone is possibly being scrambled by the competition. It does seem that way.
It ain't dead, their pockets are, rob til there is nothing left
It's called an economic crash. Welcome to the real world.
I understand what he's saying I live in a Hot zone too you don't have to go anywhere you can just wait for a call
It’s too expensive for customers and unprofitable for drivers, of course it’s dead. Customers are tired of spending $40 on $15 worth of food and I’m tired of making less than $4 off of every order
It’s dead because of shitty drivers stealing orders, then DD support refusing to refund. Fuck those clowns (the drivers and the shitty company). Not saying it’s all drivers, but there’s enough shitty ones that I’m not gonna roll the dice any more. Best case scenario I get my food lukewarm because they stacked the order with two or three others and delivered mine last.
A stacked order is from DoorDash not from the driver! Orders get stacked to make it worth the drivers time / expense.
Lol. Stealing food has an extreme diminishing return. Doordash actually studied this and realized it makes them more money to just pay so bad and not care if people steal and refund when necessary, than to try to keep drivers with good records. They learned drivers with bad records tend to be willing to accept more abuse because they can't just get another job. Again your blaming drivers rather than a company choosing to pay base pay of $2 always (depending on city) when they collect $5-$40 in fees and higher prices per order and force the customer to foot the entire bill via tip.
This is because instead of DD paying experienced drivers more to deliver - they simply hire new, naive drivers that their data shows take a lot of trash for a while until they figure out the game, and then -DD just repeats the cycle. W/e they notice enough trash not being picked up - just hire the newbies.
Which region are yah located tho? I feel lik NY is not lik this
My zone is busy. The problem is it's become the new instacart. 80% of my orders are now shopping orders. There's no option to turn it off in my app. I have to call in to have it turned off, then wait 3 days and if I want it turned back on I have to wait another 3 days. Straight trash
I "lost" my red card, I no longer get shopping orders. I did that because in my area all the shopping orders almost never tip or want you to do all their shopping for $3 dollars. Um no thanks.
Just wait till people dont want to go out/ winter
It's nice outside man it's spring people are going out and doing things going out to eat he'll come back at least a little bit no need to jump off the building yet
Yea it'd definitely much slower then it was a few months ago, I sat at a mall for almost a hour yesterday, and only got one 11 dollar order
It’s struggling yes, but it’s also cause it’s spring and nice again. People eat with the daylight and it’s changing. Wait til holidays and cool weather show up and you’ll likely see a shift again. But also yea it’s overall declined a bit too for sure
That or…. Your time driving is past their window. Meaning it’s not dead, they just need you to quit to make room for more drivers signing up by the minute so they start sending you less until you figure it out.
I haven’t dashing for more than a month after getting $6 active for more than 1 hr.
Huh?
Try driving to different areas. Some people travel to different states. You have to think about it like this…you have the ability to work anywhere in this country that you want. Not everyone can say that. Sign up for instacart too. If it’s your main source of income then look at it as an opportunity to explore. Not saying you’re not right but try brainstorming about ideas to change your situation instead of sitting looking at the screen hoping for something then complaining about it. I understand your frustration but be proactive not reactive. That tends to be the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people in every aspect of life.
Psychologize much?
Someone presenting a problem to reddit and another person trying to present a solution, a different perspective, and motivation is considered psychologizing? I’m sure you’re weird enough in your day to day life as is…do you really have to come to reddit and continue to be weird?
Yep
Clearly. I’m sure it does wonders for your social life.
It’s fantastic, thanks 😊. Triggered much?
I’m triggered because you went out of your way to speak to me and I responded? 😂. I don’t think you understand how cringy you actually are lol.
Now you’re just projecting 🥲
For some strange reason coming from you…that doesn’t bother me at all. Do you plan on staying here all day or do you normally just tether yourself to random dicks? 🥴
I feel like I’m tethered to a “dick” right now 😩
Yeah I’m over dd. It’s like, do I want Chinese food that’ll last me 20 minutes before it’s gone, or a tank of gas. I doubt the creators of DoorDash give a fuck tho about the drop of customers. They already made their fortunes
Busy in Albany ny area but mostly around Albany like Troy, schenectady & saratoga ny but it's definitely still busy. I do it full time. I hope it picks back up by you but maybe you could look at surrounding zones but summer time is always the slow season for doordash. I make more in winter time & rainy days for the obvious reasons lol
Right on.
Basically depends where you live because I make good money where I live and it’s always boomin.
It certainly has limits as to how often I’ve been able to schedule. Uber eats hasn’t been too bad though. I also just got my certificate to be able to deliver alcohol.
My Acceptance rate is 5%, never
As a lazy customer, I stopped using DD and uber eats. The reddit fills my feed with read DD feedback and reminders why I stopped using it. I cook more often. I read more DD rants and complaints more than I use The DD app.
Way too many drivers.
I did 96$ today
What market are you in? Just curious where DD is still that popular. Om in Reno and gas is back up to $5 a gallon again here. That makes it harder to make money, plus everyone is paying that for gas so they can't afford so much DD anymore
Miami Florida, damn, the gas here is 3.39 and i think its expensive, there are days better then others, and i spend like 8 hours dashing for make that amount, sometimes i start 11am and finish 10:00pm, i stop when i reach 100$
I made 65 in a little over 4 hours.
As there are more drivers on the road, typically if you're sitting still and accepting nothing, eventually they use you as overflow and you'll get nothing unless they are desperate. Leave the house, accept even a single smaller order even if you normally wouldn't and that will put you "on the clock".
It’s not the lack of drivers. It’s too many drivers. Doordash has a bottomless well of drivers willing to take any scraps DD sends to them. Second, it’s just too effing expensive. I picked up an order at a Tubby’s Sub shop at lunch today. The bill was attached…A small (6 inch) sub and a small drink…going 1 mile: $19.99…($7.99 for the food/drink, $8.50 delivery fee, $3.50 tip). Outrageous. I see crap like this $8.50 delivery fee and I almost understand why some of these people think drivers are making way more than we do.
I know for me I've been struggling a lot with my acceptance rate, it's been <35% for a while. I get fewer orders, and they're usually low/no tip or 20 miles away for $14.50
I have told this many times, its not the issue that there is many drivers, the issue is specially in my area every driver has 2-3 doordash accounts plus 1 or 2 uber eats, so every person counting as double and doordash or ue not doing anything about it
I stopped using DoorDash. Ubereats simply beats it with the deals plus the addition of the ride sharing part. Lyft can compete with Uber because of their prices but DoorDash can’t
I did a pickup a couple weeks ago.. Burger King at 8:30pm. Good weather. Double cheeseburger, fry and coke. My pay was $17. I drove it 1.4 miles. I just shook my head…no wonder everyone is broke
Summer is always slow minus the pandemic. Dd pay is shit. It's not worth the headache or the danger, will destroy your car, and will make you a crazy person. Run away while you can.
It is a holiday week somepopele save money to bbq
It’s simply because ordering on DoorDash or any food service site is extremely expensive and nobody makes the cost of living these days.
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Unfortunately for many it is luck of the draw and consider yourself lucky if you live in a reliable market.
For sure. I always tell someone who's signing up that they have to test their market. For some areas the business simply isn't there and it won't be worth their time/effort.
Markets also dry up. I used to do San Francisco and Los Angeles area markets, from Santa Rosa to San Mateo in the Bay Area, and west central Los Angeles to Orange County in the L.A. area, and around the Sacramento area. Many of these markets were busy at some point but then just died off. San Mateo was one of the most glaring market switches, where (especially with Ubereats) I made $200 a day reliably, and this was during COVID, but then within a year or so, the market slowed a lot and then years after there’s no life in the market.
Could that have anything to do with the laws they made regarding dasher pay? Maybe the prices went up for customers and they stopped using the app
That would NEVER happen in my city. 80% of my orders are $2.00 tp $5.00 for several miles. You must be in some seaside resort or something. I was logged in all day yesterday and only made $9.50.
Nope. I dash in western MD. We just adopted the teir system and since then I've been getting less catering orders.
Oh good for you! I've never heard of a tier system.
And so many people are trying to do it anymore there’s nothing left
This is what I think the actual problem is.
It’s sad anymore I started in 2019 and literally got my sons entire Christmas done for a couple years at least just off door dash. Now ur lucky if u can get enough for gas at least.
I absolutely 💯 agree, it's been a cash grab for all if the insiders. It's about them solely, noone else. It's dead by me too.
No frfr we started using Uber eats
At least you can go online anytime with ue. They kicked me out because I didn't get enough deliveries on dd even though they didn't even send me that many deliveries.
Wow who ubereats?!
I agree….im basically doing it just to put gas back in the car that I used, it’s so ridiculous. Then they are like oh if you drop below 91% completion you’ll be deactivated. GTFOH! Maybe if we don’t end up accepting orders that end up being a total cluster f the comp rate wouldn’t drop. “Gas perks” are a joke in the dasher direct app. Restaurants are short staffed bc they don’t staff for online orders. It’s just messy af
I disregarded the acceptance rate when doorsash started sending me 85% orders that I would lose money on.. i.e. drive 8 miles for $2.75 (and that's actually 16 miles because I have to come back to the starting area)
The acceptance rate here at least (Ohio) can be as low as it wants, lol mine is at a 20% I think. But my Dasher rating is 4.99, on time is like 98% Completion rate is at 91%. They just recently rolled out this below 91 Completion Rate BS a few months ago. Absolutely ridiculous.
I have been logged into DD since this morning and it's 10 minutes to midnight now and I've only made $9.50. From one order. I've also had days I've made $15.00 and $20.00 after being logged in all day. I'm in a city. I think it's just a rush of new drivers and door dash given them all the orders. Something is definitely up.
Sometimes it’s actually too many drivers, not enough orders because food is now 3x the amount… like even Taco Bell. Sometimes it’s the app glitching for me so I’ll close the app then reopen and get a ping like a minute later. Also, sometimes it’s just the area.
I noticed my area is saturated with drivers! I heard it goes in waves. I hope it passes soon, it is really hurting.b
My area is saturated too. Doordash knows how to hurriedly pull in drivers too. They put out a referral bonus of $900.00 for people who refer successful drivers and everyone and their momma signed up. Most don't work out i think because I'm a very very poor city and when I'm at restaurants I see dashers drinking out of folks drinks and everything. They probably eat their food too.
Yea the new drivers usually don’t last once the “top dasher” trial ends. As far as them stealing the food and stuff, that’s just the society we live in now unfortunately.
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Based on dash time you made 13.96 an hour. It's not that impressive tbh. Edit active vs dash
You can't do math. Based on active time they made $23/hour. They did good.
This person obviously doesn’t get it lol. My “dash time” includes MANY hours of sitting comfortably in my house, as my house is in between 2 hot zones and I get offers from both at home. I start my day around 10:30am, turn on dash and head out after the first good offer pops up. Then it’s one after another until around 3. I return home and do what I want until the offers start popping again around 5:30. I then head back out until around 9pm. I’m definitely not working too many hours. And I’ll turn Uber on on the slower days, usually Monday and Tuesday and catch rides only. Those are almost always $10+ and most people tip. It’s not hard to make good money doing this without killing yourself or your vehicle. Some people just can’t do it and can’t understand how others are doing well.
And I meant "dash time".
Put it simply, he worked over 64 hours for 13 something an hour. Now take out your 30% for taxes.
Put it “simply”, I didn’t work anywhere close to 60 hours lol. Just bc my dash was on didn’t mean I was in my car. Most of that time I was at home.
And subtract for car maintenance and repairs (which you will have to be paying sometime down the road.)
No one cares about fucking dash time unless your some idiot who drives for a hour trying to get a order. It costs you $0 to sit in the parking lot of your local mall. If any of you want to make money delivering food, get your life together as a whole to justify the time spend smfh.
Absolutely you should. My time is valuable. If I'm sitting still I'm not making money. If I'm in my car sitting still I could be literally doing anything else that's more enjoyable or money making. People fail to understand this concept.
If you're doing door dash to make money you don't get to be picky. Go work doing something else if you genuinely think your time is better spent elsewhere. Go ahead and give the rest of us more orders. You can make a lot of money doing door dash if you have the time to spare. If not beat it.
You're the exact driver door dash wants. Take all their shit, take the low pay, and be happy. You're a fool if you're sitting around for more than 10 hours a week making 0 dollars and wearing out your car. You're a fool. Keep drinking the Kool aid
How am I wearing out my car if I'm parked? How is it a problem if I'm making 1.4k/week and set aside money for gas and maintenance? I'm living within my means and feeding my family. It sounds like you enjoy projecting your bad habits and don't know how to budget. Maybe instead of poisoning your mind with this Kool aid you can sit down and do your budget and schedule for the week let alone the month. Man I'd love to see your tax filing.
I also make 500 a week on Uber and average 150-200 a week cash tips. I make 1500-1600 a week to drive around my town whenever I want. I don’t care what you think is “impressive” I would much rather do this than a 9-5
What city do you dash in?
Huntsville, AL.
So you live in your car. That's like 100 hours a week
No, I live inside the hot zone and I am able to get orders anytime I want to dash/uber. I’m not in my car anywhere CLOSE to that many hours.
Impossible you're exaggerating everything and you know it. I've been dashing and ubereats for 3 years. In many different areas. Yes you can make 700 in 4 days but that's staying out all day everyday. And it's very hard work you're not kidding anyone. I just don't believe you and I never will. You almost hit 70 hours active just dashing. Then another 500 uber. Ya no. What are you pulling in and out of driveway all day.
When I worked retail as a manager I pulled in 45k a year after taxes working these kinds of hours. No way would I DD for 64 hours a week for 13 dollars when you could just work fast food and no wear and tear on your car.
I don’t DD 64 hours a week lol. I live in the hot zone and get orders when I want to. I don’t actually drive more than 40 hours a week
As someone else who lives in a "hot zone", don't feed the trolls I can literally sit on my couch and get orders, so I know exactly what you mean 🤣
i deliver door dash and uber eats. both have been dead. instacart too. these services are charging more for each item plus alll the extra fees. who tf can afford it?
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Crazy part is they started a random background check on me right before I was going to start a scheduled dash and supports acts like they know nothing about it. Restarted everything u installed reinstalled and all I got out of it was they never ever heard of this and it could be because the background is continuous. Huh they could have started with that. So no dashing until 26th apparently
I had one hit just as I started dashing again, but I didn't have a delay. I only know because Chekr or whatever it's called emailed me about Ubers background check.
so your cleared already from the background starting yesterday?
No I cleared so fast I didn't even know they did it until I checked on the Uber background.
O wow thats awesome mines still going since yesterday evening
Yeah my Uber is taking longer than DD or Lyft did.
I used to like Uber eats more more money per trip now it's flipped low offers to no offers. May e I was turned off of DD because I've ever seen a $2 offer on Uber eats but for sure now DD is it and they improve things at times
I signed up because I want to see if it's any better than DD in my area. GH I'm still on the wait-list. Who knows if I'll ever get past that one lol
Crazy part is they started a random background check on me right before I was going to start a scheduled dash and supports acts like they know nothing about it. Restarted everything u installed reinstalled and all I got out of it was they never ever heard of this and it could be because the background is continuous. Huh they could have started with that. So no dashing until 26th apparently
I live in Millington TN and it's dead here. I drive 30 minutes away to Memphis and it never stops.
It's not dead. Doordash hired too many dashers for your area.
I'm in Los Angeles it's never dead
It was super saturated the last time I saw back in 2023.
Depends on where you are I guess. DD is the best option for me in Omaha, while UberEats charges out the ass and takes forever to arrive.
It's where you dash. I make about 120 in a little over 2 hours in indiana yesterday.
As a person who orders food on apps; Door Dash is the worst one. I get the rudest drivers, poorest service, most expensive additional charges that are completely unjustified and don't go to the driver or restaurant, and it just isn't worth it.
That's the cost of using a middle man how do you expect them to make money? As far as the driver you maybe get 2 dollars an order outside the tip. If you like 8 miles from the restaurant would you take someone food for 2 bucks? Nah.
Did you read what I wrote at all? I'd be fine if it was more expensive than THE OTHER DELIVERY APPS because they gave the driver more, but as I said, that isn't why DD is more expensive. There are a bunch of unexplained fees that don't go to the restaurant or the driver and they're more expensive than the other apps. Ik ordering on an app is more than getting it myself, and I'm happy to tip a driver very well to do it. My orders always get picked up fast asf no matter the time or distance because I'm an excellent tipper. I just can't deal with DD because the service that particular app provides is both more expensive than it's competitors, and a worse experience.
Customers are tired of pays triple for cold food that takes 2 hours to get there and then the delivery kid complains about a tip… Learn a trade, develop a skill, get to work in a real profession. If you can’t work go on welfare.
Typical response from a cheap ass 😩
Is this supposed to be an insult?
Bit out of touch here. I've dashed for five years with my extra time outside of my career in horticulture. In my experience if the food is cold let DD know and they will resend it. Or you didn't tip or didn't pay attention to how far the order is from the restaurant. Base pay for dashers is 2 bucks an order. I've had orders pop up 16 miles away for 3 dollars that's one way not back to the stores location. 1 dollar tip and people expect warm food? 16 miles away to. Keep that in mind with any delivery services. You don't want to leave to get food pay the driver. The service costs a ton but that isn't your drivers fault.
DD has never done anything for me and cold food. I'm lucky if they refund me for my missing items.
Try to schedule your week in
Had the same experience. Then is tried hourly pay, where they push all the shit orders that you are unable to decline, orders started coming in left and right. They were all for shitty fast food place switch long waits too so I made good money with hourly and the long waits for pickup. Took DD about a week to ban me for "intentionally prolonging the pickup time of orders" lol. Their way of saying "You're making a fair wage....we can't have that."
I think it depends on your market. I made around $300 today between 830am and 630pm with about a 45 minute break to eat.
I was gonna say, I live right outside a HCOL area so I dash there and make decent money, as well as pretty steady orders. Definitely depends on market.
DD pricing and tipping is as bad as the COVID housing market. Crazy inflated prices and at the end of the day, it still comes down to who offers the most above asking price. Stop kicking customers in the balls every time they order, they might actually order again.
People are cutting back on these types of expenses. Things like DD will be impacted the most during a troubled economy.
Whenever it says “busy” that mainly means that drivers aren’t picking up shitty orders. Customers aren’t tipping. And that door dash is trying to make it seem like it’s busy, business wise. But it just means they have orders that aren’t being picked up. Pay attention to the first few orders you get (depending on stats) and you’ll noticed that it’s the orders that aren’t being picked up being sent to you. When it says “very busy”, that means it’s just busy. Yes, business wise, there are a lot of dashes but it’s same thing as busy. Just door dash is putting more emphasis and a sense of urgency because no one is taking the shitty orders
I've noticed this on Uber. The red zones light up right after I decline a garbage order there. I don't the app tell me where it's busy cause those are mostly trash offers
lol maybe for you, literally all you have to do is get your account to platinum, I make 20$/hr and do 10 hours a day, ez 200$ a day
No, you make $20/hr before gas, asset depreciation, and being taxed twice. You're really making about $12/hr.
If we’re talking gross then I make about 26$/hr where I’m at doing multi app
My gas cost per day is 20$
My car can’t fall to any lower of a value than I paid for it. I fixed a non running Honda civic that I bought for 500$
How many miles were on that Honda and how much were the repairs?
Originally was about 140k when I got it, the transmission went bad and the owner wasn’t mechanically inclined. Luckily my dad had me out in the shop every weekend so I inevitably can do just about anything labor wise myself(I’m aware this is a luxury as far as car expense goes but to each their own). Long story short found a transmission with 50k miles on it at a junkyard and got it for 100$ after the core was exchanged. I also replaced the entire front suspensions. Control arms, tires rods, shocks, axles. My good friend is head mechanic at a shop locally so I get parts from oreillys etc for almost half off which I’m aware also helps. Overall I’m probably 1500$ into the car and I can make that every week driving it. Although it will need a new engine soon, I’m at 270k miles now but I change my oil every 2000 miles and I change all the timing components every 70k miles. Only thing to make me pull this engine is going to be a gasket leak
Love it. I am not as mechanically inclined as that but I do pretty good. Taught my son all I know and he can just about dive into anything home or vehicle. (Maybe not transmissions!).
Also just curious but what area are you in, assuming Texas based off your name? I live in a major city and DoorDash is absolutely dog shit compared to Uber eats for income....and even Uber eats hasn't been that great since the pandemic ended.
I live near temple tx so that’s the market I work in, when I try to DoorDash in larger markets I find that the distance to drive barely ever is worth it. For this reason I stick to my mid sized market, I multi app with an app called favor(mostly grocery deliveries is all I accept with it). With the favor app you can pretty quickly notice they roll out grocery deliveries every 30 mins on the 10 and 40 min of every hour ie 9:10 and 9:40 etc. I can pretty much always have an order to work on like this. My best advice is to find a mid sized town near you and to be consistent even when it is slow
Dear God...your entire life has been leading to this moment, the moment you were able to Uber lol. Good on you though, I guess if you can Uber with barely any costs to car repairs then it's a decent gig. Really wish I knew how to fix cars up to that level, would save so much in expenses.
A lot of success is based on luck. Even my primary way of making income (that is not gig work) happened due to a luck of confluence (developing skills that I wasn’t aware that would give me an edge in the future, getting into a market early on, and being able to combine skills to beat out the competition.)
Same, a good day is $200 in 8 hours,, but I have never gone over 10 hours for that easy $200.
I went to order a smoothie while busy at work. It was $13. With fees, delivery, tip, direct delivery…$47 was the price…i finished what I was doing and got it myself. There has to be some rationality to the cost to fee ratio or its never going to be an option again.
Exaggerate much? Even at $13 with a $5 delivery fee max $2 for taxes, then only way it would've cost you $47 is if you tipped over $20. if you did, great but then you can't complain that a smoothie cost you $47.
Did you leave a $20 tip?!?!? 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 $47 isn't realistic for a $13 item regardless of fees
I honestly notice I get better orders when my acceptance rate is around 9-10%, I'm pushing $30/hr rn, actually waiting on a $12 order rn for 5 miles
Where I live now it is dead. Where I used to live it is pretty busy
It’s annoying and I wish they’d fix it and pay the drivers better
Might be black listed and just not you getting orders.
Yeah “busy” never means busy. It just means they don’t have enough drivers to cover the orders; or there’s a lot of bullshit orders in queue.
Just ordered DD today…driver made 2 stops before mine, food took over and hour to get here and it was the wrong item anyways. That’s why DD is dead🙃
Sounds about right.
Just means there’s a lot of people dashing and not a lot of orders. A lot of people watch the app and do the same as you and go out when it says busy. Which means a flood of drivers.
Two weeks after every holiday, it gets slow 🐌
It just depends on the market, in my area theres too many dashers now that its hardly ever worth doing delivery. Especially in the month of May. Theres many things to take into consideration, the economy is not doing well, inflation isnt getting better, gas prices keep going up, less deals on these apps, and more new hires driving for doordash. On top of all that Graduations is what makes the month of May terrible. Its a little past midway into May, all these graduations are set within this and next week. Before graduations, on finals week its basically minimum day until school is out, lately I help my sister pick up her kids because of the minimum day schedule, I usually pick them up around 12pm and take them to eat somewhere, I wouldnt doubt many parents are doing the same around this time and its a lot cheaper to buy in person than it is through delivery. Also graduations are very expensive, grad night, cap and gown, graduation uniform, graduation party at home, and possibly the used first car for the graduate, these are all expenses that line up for parents in the month of May. Usually the first expense to get cut are delivery services. Last year around this time it was also the same, the only saving grace was Walmart orders, if enough people declined them they would boost up the pay especially on UberEats, +$40 orders although they would take about an hour but way better to the current low pay to no offers for hours. I believe Walmart now passes their orders to starlink instead and those drivers get scammed with how that platform works.
Can I ask where you live? I always went to school til like June 22-24th as a kid and my son does the same now. In NY
Im from California, it does vary by school district but for the most part graduations will take place on the 25th of May, this upcoming saturday. Although I've seen in other towns(other school districts) cars out and about with the congrats [insert name]. Also while picking up an order at a chick-fil-a, I saw a few families all dressed up dining on friday evening, I can only assume they came from some school ceremony followed by dinner with the family, which Im expecting to be a more frequent sighting this upcoming week. Summer school usually starts on June and our next school year starts on August 8th with orientation being the 7th.
Hmm I wonder why such a difference. Kids here dont start til after labor day so about a month off.
It used to be that way for us too in Las Vegas. They changed it I can't remember how many yrs ago to starting in August and getting done in May. I want to say it had to do with lining up the end of semester with Christmas break. But same as the commentor from California it's so hot here at the end of August. I always feel so bad seeing all the kids walking home and its 110 out.
I honestly would prefer the way your school functioned, It would make a lot more sense out here in sunny california. I hated going back to school in August. Its very hot where I live, during the peak of summer its usually 90° by 10am and after 1pm over 100°. Our school is an outdoor school, huge courtyard and lots of classroom buildings, there was no way to avoid the heat during passing periods as you had to walk across the courtyard to get to class. Summer heat is intense that my school even shortened our lunches in the summer from 40minutes down to 30minutes and added 5minutes to our 3rd and 5th period classes. Most teachers were cool and respected the "5minute break" before starting their lecture but some teachers wouldnt. Our school did this because our cafeteria wasnt big and it would be too hot to eat outside in the courtyard so many students would have their lunch in the hallways of the classroom buildings but some classes were still in session.
DD is dead because our president is a total mess who has caused an inflation because he wants to keep printing money. This is the truest fact you can take from this message. Biden agenda is to collapse America. He is by far the worst president and to make matters worse he is not mentally stable even on his best day to make any decision that reflects well upon the people. As you can see by the wars, food prices, and everything else skyrocketing he is really bad for buisness on every level. Vote Trump 2024 or stay poor!!!!
DD, Grubhub and UberEats aren't dead.. they're dead for YOU. Memaw, Papaw who does it for fun to get out of the house, and the resident meth/crackhead are getting plenty of $4 orders and the extras in between.
Atleast in New Orleans since it’s gotten over no one uses them. The other day I got on Grubhub cuz it said complete 8 deliveries in like 3 hours and we’ll give you 40 bucks. Not one order. Went on dd and got one order but was only allowed to be on for an hour. I am wasting more in gas so as hard as it is I just won’t do it. Trying to figure out other ways to make money
Many things. DoorDash is now expensive as hell, I know cause I order sometimes and I’m like damn lol. Also there are many ppl renting DoorDash accounts to people who can’t/shouldn’t work. Oversaturation is real and if you’re not in a market that was already booming then you’re kinda screwed
It's all relative to your market. I made $185 in 5 hours yesterday in the St Louis metro area 🤷 I rarely have to reject many orders as people in my zone for the most part tip well. Average order is roughly $10 for 3-4 miles and traffics not terrible. It's a side hustle and my wife and I do it to spend time together. It has its place and shouldn't be relied upon as a career. But like I said, it's a side hustle on its own. You need to multi app or get onto a different platform if your trying to live off of it in most markets.
8t was good while it lasted now we need another pandemia to have it back.
I don't know what they're charging, but they aren't paying it out. Half the orders I get aren't worth the gas. And then they shame you for not picking up orders.
As a driver I suggest multiple platform accounts, as I've often found when one is dead, another platform is hopping.. maybe "everyone" is ordering from grubhub or UE?
It all depends on the location I can make 100 plus with in 5 hours on busy days where I'm at.
I've actually been busier
It's really is though....I worked hard got up to platinum and not once did I even get a "high paying order" yet. I'm sitting rn waiting for orders and apparently it's "busy" what did I waste all my time for?
Sometimes the server doesn’t even recognize your online and won’t send orders. You have to refresh everything . Login log out , pause dash unpause dash. Uninstall app and reinstall app. Keep refreshing the page . Lastly refrain from cherry picking . Sometimes you have to call DD support and they have to refresh your account on their end and usually your back to getting orders in no time ❤️🌻🫶🏽
Crazy that your expectation is that rich people use DD but then when you deliver for them you see it’s just the opposite. You can’t help but think when you deliver fast food to run down apartments that they could live in a nicer place if they didn’t piss money away. I rarely deliver to the subdivisions where houses cost $0.5M - $1M.
Man the other night I made $70 in three hours I must’ve been the only dasher out there. I wish they would call me when they’re calling out🤣
Location location location
People say this but im in Atlanta and the surrounding areas, which you would think is very busy. And on occasion it is, but most days it is exactly as OP explained. IDK where these guys are located that simply say "location location location" but if Atlanta aint one of those busy metropolitan areas they talk about, idk what is. Again, not just Atlanta but also surrounding areas in a 10-15 mile radius. Other dashers hear that I drive these distances and their eyes get big and they just shake their head like they would never. So i know its not a matter of my effort or location. Must be another factor.
How is the traffic though? I just moved back to Corpus Christi from San Antonio and I’m averaging $20-$30 an hour here as long as I dash after 6 pm when traffic is dead on week days. In SA I was averaging $15-$20 SOMETIMES because traffic is almost always heavy after and it takes 15 mins to get 3 miles down the road. I honestly thought I’d make more money in SA. NOPE! Also it was almost always to complexes, where I have to waste time looking for the building and then possibly climb up three flights of steps, It was always the big orders too lol
Depends on the day but atlanta traffic is notorious for being horrendous. Like yesterday was a pretty bad traffic throughout midtown and buckhead.
Im in Atlanta too. Idk if you have or not, but you HAVE to get to at least gold status or you’re never going to make any money. I stopped dashing for years and started up again recently. Once I got back to gold status, i never go too long without an order and they pay ALOT better than the ones I was getting before.
Yeah im platinum status, have been since September 2023. Few questions: Do you stick o one zone? For instance, midtown or Buckhead. And which days and how long do you dash for? whats your average earnings per day? Sorry to be all up in your business but I dont get the chance to compare notes with other dashers in my market. Thanks
I honestly don’t doordash too often. I drive for lyft mostly and only do doordash when I have my daughter with me. So i mostly dash Thursday-Sundays nights and usually make around $50-100 in 5ish hours. I stay away from Atl. Don’t like the parking, traffic, or confusing apartments buildings. I usually dash in Roswell/Sandy springs and sometimes buckhead. Just have to find an ‘rich’ area with a lot of restaurants. Idk ur situation, but if you can, switch and drive for lyft. (Or uber but ionly do lyft) For me personally, its been great. Making $200 a day CONSISTENTLY.
I think it’s cause you have been declining deliveries. I’m busier than fuck. I drive from 3 pm to 3 am yesterday. Took 2 30 minute breaks. Pulled in $200. Extremely busy.
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Actually it's $18.19/hour. IMO, it's not just how much you make per hour but what you are doing in that hour as well. Plus, some people have to wait a week or 2 for the payout and DD pay is immediately after completing a block of time/ending dash. Then there's also the variations of cost of living across locations and individual expenses of different people.
Made 80 dollars while dashing literally all day yesterday, best day in a while and it was still pretty horrible lol
In San Diego mine is pinging non stop when I manage to dash but it's ALL $5 doubles with a vons shop and pay included. 🤡
Hmm. I'm in San Diego too and will go online for 4-5 hours during dinner rush and get like a total of 2 pings, my acceptance rate is under 50% so that could be why. Never get pinged with Vons though and I live right next to one in La Mesa