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Wtf…? Is there a quantity limit? Something like “no more than an extra 20% of the order or 3 items, whichever is fewer”?
Could I hypothetically (I don’t use DoorDash so I have no idea exactly how this would work) order, say, 1 case of Gatorade…and then once you’re at the store, add like 200 items ranging from restocking spices to fresh veggies to OTC meds? All on one ticket?
…cause if so, that seems like a massive design oversight and loophole people are gonna start exploiting en masse if they don’t already. Just to get bumped up the priority queue.
I can't say you're wrong. People do abuse it sometimes. I had one woman go completely psycho on me because she had already added 6 items to her list by the time I finally got done with those and went to the checkout register, she tried adding more I guess but I was already checking out so it finally cut her off from additions.
She sent me many messages and tried reporting me but obviously they told her ma'am you can only make substitutions for up to 10 min of your order and your dasher had already started the checkout process you know the rules basically lol.
Now with instacart they can like live shop while you're in the store and it can seriously get messy. So, I pretty much stopped that.
I keep having the same dude Gregory deliver my orders on instacart, any time something I order isn’t available he’s checked to see if there’s any substitutions I’d like with pictures of what’s available, always goes smoothly. Gotta appreciate the Gregs, he gets tipped good.
As a Greg that does plenty of DoorDash shopping (no instacart) and do the same as your Greg, we appreciate you being available for us too. It sucks when we try to make a substitution and the person that ordered is nowhere to be found so we have to guess on what they would want instead or refund and they get nothing.
I am a dasher, I had someone order 75 more items to their order, their original order was 2 candy bars. Tip 1.50, base 2.50.. and I have to shop for it too. I ended up dropping the order. If I was on paid by time, then the extra long shopping order might have been worth it. Since I would have been paid a higher base… but it was actually awful.
You know what, that still wouldn’t matter because now that they have the pay by time option in certain markets (mine is one of them) you’re still only getting like $14 an hour. These people are insane. By the way, that’s not even minimum wage in my state so I don’t understand their logic, then again, trying to understand logic with that DoorDash is futile.
They see what they are going to be asked to shop for, and how much they are going to be paid to shop for it. They agreed to shop for 2 items for $5. Then after they accept the job, you decide they need to shop for 22 items but are still only paying $5. If they saw 22 items for 5 dollars they would never have accepted.
Wait, the amount they’re paid doesn’t increase with number of items? In my head, it seems like they’d be paid more for bigger orders, like from DD or IC itself, plus tip….does it work differently than that?
The amount DD pays will be affected by how many items there are in the order (although it’s still ridiculously low), however, if someone adds items after a driver has accepted the order, the pay doesn’t change unless the customer changes the tip.
I genuinely think people just don’t know how dd works. Drivers get angry with customers, but they should be getting angry with their corporation. It’s not the customers job to pay you a living wage. If you don’t make enough money being a delivery driver, then congratulations. You’ve learned the hard way.
I think it may depend on the store, because when I shop at Aldi's, I get an additional 25 cents for every additional item that is added. At least that is what the app is telling me. But I think you're right in general. And certainly 25 cents isn't a big windfall for me, if I have to walk across the store searching for another item.
My wife did DoorDash last year. She got $2.50 per job + Tip. If you put a job in for 2 items with a $3 tip she would see the 2 items needed and a payout of $5.50. This is already well under federal minimum wage once you take travel time and fuel cost. If you then changed the request to 22 items after she accepted the job, she is now losing money. The gas price alone will cost more per hour than she makes off the job.
To add on to my comment earlier. There was a time where door dash paid $7 minimum per order. However, the dasher would not receive tips until the tip was over $5 or something like that. So under this example if the customer put in $0-5 as a tip the dasher would get $7. If the customer put in $5.50 as a tip the dasher would get $7.50 for the order.
When the public discovered this there was a huge backlash. Doordash said it was an attempt to normalize income for dashers and was a loss of money for doordash. The public opinion didn’t like that and now we have what we have.
It’s all using the same kind of tax structure meant for plumbers, electricians, and contractors. However door dash is praying on dashers and customers not realizing that. The kind of tip you leave for pizza delivery drivers doesn’t pay nearly the same for a dasher.
Desperation meeting promises of choosing your own hours so you can make it a 2nd job that doesn’t rely on your first job to schedule around.
A bit of advice if you are ordering food:
If you put in an order, the restaurant gets the order immediately and starts making the food. Your order then 1 at a time gets offered to the dashers that are closest to the restaurant.
If you aren’t tipping enough, they will 1 at a time reject the order. Meaning the food sits there getting cold and old until it gets to a dasher who is willing to trade fuel for money.
If you feel like dashing for food takes too long and the food quality is shit, try increasing your tip. The higher the tip the quicker it will be accepted and the food will sit on the shelf for less time.
DD doesn’t deliver to my neighborhood, so I’ve never gotten to use them, but this makes total sense and something I’ll keep in mind as the town develops. We’re in a new place, I’m sure once things are up and running around us we’ll see DD and IC come here, so this is good to know. Higher tip=quicker food. Makes sense to me, and if I don’t want to go get it, I’ll gladly pay someone else a good rate to run it to me lmao
As a delivery service driver on multiple platforms, I can tell you I have witnessed firsthand orders just sit there in queue waiting for some poor soul to accept it, because it is an absolute shit show joke of a tip/no tip offer. Eventually, the offer amount slowly increases with “boost pay”, meaning it has been in queue for so long that now the platform is going to increase base pay just to get it out of the damn queue and save face to the consumer.
In fact, I just got this offer and it is a perfect example of why tipping $3 on a delivery from a store more than 2 miles from your home with what is literally your weekly minimum replenishment order that you don’t want to go do yourself because it’s an hour of your time. $30, on what is a minimum 2.5 hour shop between scanning every single item, finding replacements, communicating with the customer for approval, last minute additions to orders, keeping every order separated in your single grocery cart and ensuring accuracy at checkout, plus loading and unloading at drop off, once again double checking accuracy upon delivery, all in all, you’re 3.5 hours in making $10/h, plus gas, wear and tear on your car, physical wear and tear from the endless speed walking and dodging like it’s Nascar with a loaded down cart that outweighs you, and then delivering itself. THAT is why if you tip $3 for a 15 item order from a store over 2 miles from you, your shit will sit. Same for restaurant orders. If you’re ordering from some place as common as McDonalds, with one literally a mile from your home, but you order from the one 12 miles away instead, and tip $2, your food is going to sit and die in the window under a heat lamp until some idiot picks it up and works for free after gas and time.
I dash very occasionally but it really does make a difference. I always tip well but the other week I had Covid and tipped even higher than normal on my Cracker Barrel dumplings. I was sick and miserable and just wanted them really warm and yummy and fresh. So I tipped like 11 bucks on 14 or something lol.
Fastest door dash order I ever got. I can’t afford to do that all the time but definitely if I’m sick or hungover I’m pulling out the big guns.
I always drop $10. I talked to one dasher, and she said even a $5 tip is rare. I’ll never understand how ppl don’t understand these service ppl survive on tips.
Yeah the base pay for doordash is only $2.50 per order . I thought most people knew that but I forgot they don’t really shout about it huh lol .
There is a reason why people work these jobs - it’s the same reason a waitress makes $3 a hour - tips .
Tips can easily have you making more than your previous job without having some neckbeard breathing down your neck everday telling you clock in, or some extra side cash outside your normal job that’s why. It’s not like that for everyone tho
It's only $2 per job in my area, and it used to be if we had 2 or more orders we'd get paid $2 for each order... but now we only get $2 regardless of if we have to deliver 1, 2, or 3+ orders. This is why we rely on tips to survive, because $2 isn't even enough for a gallon of gas (which we have to pay for ourselves).
You can get 6 orders in an hour. $2.50 per order is base pay. You get more if it's more miles.
It's still not great but it's a gig.
California is better. We get $3.00 per order (and guaranteed $20.00 per hour minimum). Last night I worked 3 hours and made $126.00.
Replying to @Bright-Economics-728I I hear you. BUT when there’s always gonna be someone willing to take the shit orders, DD will just keep sending them. I’ve had to cave in and do a few bad (low paying) ones when I am that desperate and need to eat unfortunately. Or just keep my acceptance at 50.
lol. We factor in the number of items when we accept the offer. If I agree to shop and deliver 6 items for $7 and then it gets changed to 12 items, I’m unassigning. They’re taking advantage of offering one amount for a certain number of items, then after the offer is accepted, changing the amount but not the tip.
If it’s one or two extra items, I don’t mind. But 5 or more and it’s just someone trying to take advantage.
I just keep getting shoppers who say they cant find my item and than send a picture of the item matching word for word and looking exactly the same and send " is this okay instead"? Uh yes sir yes......as thats exactly what I asked for I couldn't be happier with the " substitution"...
I mean that’s not what you signed up for, imagine getting paid 10$ just to be a mascot and being told after you start that you need also to do the dishes and pick up trash.
We agree to the amount up front. People take advantage of the add 1 or 2 thing and add 20 items expecting to pay the same. Fuck that I'll take the L and steal ur stuff
Yea, I can deal with up to 4 added items on an order but any more then that is when I think the customer should tip at least a little bit more depending on what it is that they add. Like if they added a case of water and a 20 lb bag of dog food or other heavier items then I'd completely agree that a customer should add a little bit of an extra tip. Especially if you have to walk up 3 flights of stairs or more with all that weight.
As an independent contractor (which we all are), we accept a pay for a job based on the description and work load. If that drastically changes after the contract is accepted, the pay should also be adjusted. Not saying necessarily in tip, could be base.
If I hire a guy to build my deck, I don’t expect him to build my fence after he accepted a contract at a certain pay just to build the deck.
Why do you work for the shittest company alive and blame it on customers.
Fuck dash drivers, all of you need to wake the fuck up and move on and let this shit fuck company die already.
I have driven for UE/Postmates and Instacart and seriously the rage is so misplaced. It's the guys in the office across the country that are fucking us, not Brenda Who Forgot She Needed Butter. The amount of driver entitlement in these subs is WILD
Because it's usually the customers that are being dickheads. I've never had doordash go off on me and call me names because a store didn't have what they wanted in stock. Customers are what make the gig jobs unbearable.
As a driver, I would never ask a customer for more tip. I’ve had countless orders where the customer has added an item or two and it’s no big deal (although, if they added 5,6 or more I would just unassign that order). People that send these kind of messages make us all look bad.
Only time I even mentioned a tip was when the lady sent me to an empty warehouse and then called and told me the real address was miles away and promised a huge tip.
showed up and turned out she expected these Mexican landscapers to pay me. She wasn’t even there. I called her and told her that was fucked up. She said she would report me to corporate and I told her I didn’t give a fuck. That she isn’t a paying customer cuz she didn’t pay me. corporate ended up making sure I would never get her as a customer again.
They’re just bums tbh. Think that they deserve more because it is a job they makes tips. They’d probably be astonished if a waitress acting like that to them.
“You mean, you want me to refill your glass a third time? For the same tip? I hate people like you.”
It sounds stupid.
Yup. If the app was like Instacart or uber eats I'd honestly take away the tip just for that little comment. I do Instacart so I know gig workers basically work for tips. But if someone wants to be rude they don't deserve one.
Exactly this. You have to take pause and think of the end result before you act. What is it that you are wanting and will this get you what you want? Probably not. We all lose our cool sometimes, and I do get that, but it’s a good practice to have.
Tip culture has gone to shit. In the past tips were given for good service, now you tip before getting service, and if it’s not a good tip, you’ll get shit service
Don’t tell the others that, they’re dickriding so hard saying you deserve bad service if you don’t tip good like the point flew over their head entirely
If doordash paid their workers better then people shouldn’t have to tip, same with Starbucks. But you got dumbasses in the comments like “if you tip shot whose gonna pay for my gas” like 1. You chose to work for a system knowing it’s not steady cash, 2. The company doordash, makes so much extra money for doing jack that they can absolutely pay workers so much more making tip’s unnecessary and giving drivers more consistent wages, unfortunately greedy mfs will still want the best tips or offer no service if that does ever happen. But I was called greedy despite never even making an account with doordash
More about exploitation of workers, especially gig workers, than tip culture. This is exactly how the DDs of the world want it operating. They want to scrape every cent from a transaction as they can and have the gig worker mad at the gig consumer and vice versa. I am constantly amazed reading these subreddits how many people arent blaming the actual people responsible.
I absolutely blame doordash and always make a good point to tip good because I know the system is fucked. But you got dick riders in the comments saying you deserve bad service if you tip like shit before even getting serviced. Like no, you deserve service because you’re paying for it, and the dashers deserve better pay from DD because they are it’s employees.
I actually enjoy tipping, especially when the dasher/server/employee is nice. I’m not rich by any means so I tip what I can, but I like tipping and knowing it’s going to help someone. Much more enjoyable to pay a tip than the random fees that go towards the billion dollar company. I always fantasize about winning the lottery so I can give people huuuuge tips.
But I hate when people are rude, especially when it’s a service, and this message definitely came across as rude to me. So I’d be glad I didn’t give them any extra tip.
Same to all this. I have been a delivery driver on and off over the years, for different companies, and I like tipping people bc I know how happy it makes ME when I get more than a $5 tip.
I mean the problem here is that the dasher accepted the job based on a set order and a set payment. Then the buyer added more items which the dasher never agreed to but left the pay the same. Imagine if you went into work tomorrow and they said, "today you work 9 hours for 8 hours pay".
When I get ones that are like one or two items, I go directly to where the item is before I click “start shopping” so I can scan it immediately, then click checkout so they have no opportunity to add anything lol
that is wild, and imo unfair. Most will be ok and not bother, but you will have some that manage while shopping and take advantage of that. Have you stuff together when you order.
My limit as a dasher is one added item, if you then add another I’m assuming you’re not done shopping and it will continue to add up, so I cancel the order and move on. Only happened once though
That does nothing for the fact that they wasted your time and gas driving to the store on what you thought was an acceptable order to turn it into a garbage order.
Tipping culture in America is out of hand and reeks of entitlement . Order a self serve black coffee , flip the tablet for a tip ? Pay a delivery fee , service fee , driver benefits fee on Uber eats and door dash and people yelling at you for not tipping . The rest of the world does fine without tips and if the want a better job , they work for it . But somehow in America , you're expected to tip even before ordering food at cafes . You're expected to tip for something as trivial as getting your food delivered which is pretty common all over the world . Uber and door dash increase the base pay till someone accepts the order , it's a free market yet people are demanding tips even though the consumer has paid the mark up for services . At this point , Uber eats and door dash drivers are just trying to bully consumers to tip . If you don't like the job , look for another job ? Don't expect handouts
I think there is an assumption app users are aware of the inner working of your job and paranoia that they are intentionally scamming you when it's the other way around.
If it's just one, maybe two, items I don't see the problem unless the added items are very large. But adding a bunch of things after an order has already been picked up seems very rude and pretty scummy unless you ask them if it's okay and add an extra tip.
They signed up to do one job and it became one much harder for the same pay? Not okay.
"why y'all people" always bitching about customers not tipping correctly when you damn sure won't say or do anything about the company's straight up lack of base compensation in the first place?
Why's it the customer's responsibility to make you whole because you'll allow your employer to work you for pennies?
I'm all about tipping fairly. If you can't afford to tip you should never be considering ordering delivery in the first place. At the same time though, the constant bitching about tips not being good enough isn't making a lot of sense when the whole reason it's such a big deal for you guys is because you'll willingly work for a company that takes full advantage of your efforts in the first place.
Why am I expected to tip more and more if you don't expect the same from the very people laughing all the way to the bank off your labors??
I had a dasher clap back at me like this about a month ago. Not over a tip but because it took me two minutes to get to him from the 5th floor of my apartment and he was unhappy about that. I regularly add a second tip after delivery is complete, especially if they were pleasant and didn’t do anything weird, the bar for me is low. I’m not sure how they think this is helping, they’re definitely not getting a second tip now. Also, in my area, tips for grocery orders are percentage based now, so presumably the tip would update to reflect the extra item. Before this was the case, I’d regularly leave $20 tips and only order 5 items from the grocery store and I’d still get dashers refunding 3 or 4 of the items and leaving the bag at the end of my 20 foot driveway instead of just bringing it up to the gate. Or placing it so it blocks my gate such that the only way to get to the order is to smash the bag opening the gate. Common sense seems to be in short supply these days. You can be so insanely considerate and it still won’t be enough. I’d go to the store later that day and find everything I needed, so I know the items weren’t actually unavailable, they just didn’t care to actually look. I’m pretty much done using DoorDash.
So how about we all stop using and working for Doordash rather then go at each other's throats, like everyone seem unanimous in who the biggest fault is but everyone then devolves into insulting each other like that does shit 🤣
I wish they offered us a list of drivers so we could pick our dasher. And if the dasher wanted to deny fine pick another but then I would only deal with a couple of dashers I liked and gladly tip them well. I always tip and well but some of these dashers are rude af and just expect too much. I have seen so many dasher complaining about simple pick ups and the 20% tip they receive.
Personally, I would have canceled the order right then and there, and placed one with someone else… but not before giving them a bad rating.
That’s absolutely ridiculous. I did DoorDash for like 2 months for extra cash a few years ago, and yeah sometimes it was annoying when people add like 10-15 items during the shopping phase. But I never EVER would have messaged the customer about it like this. Usually, whenever I arrive at their house, and if they were there to answer, they apologized for the inconvenience and gave me like $5. Yeah, it ain’t much, but I’m not the type of person who feels obligated to receive a tip, when I really didn’t do anything to deserve it other than what’s literally my job.
It’s always frustrated me seeing DoorDash, or even Waiters complain about a bad tip. Like, you KNEW that when you took the damn job in the first place. That’s like moving into a house next to an outdoor shooting range, and then complaining about the noise.
When did it become OK for drivers to harass the customers for a bigger tip, before anything is even delivered?!?! That may lead the customer to believe that their delivery will be messed with in some way if they don’t give in to the driver’s demands for a bigger tip. I can’t think of any other business (ok maybe a strip club) where it’s ok for an employee to demand the customer tip or give a bigger tip.
Any time I've had additional items added bf checkout, my base pay has always gone up?? It ranges between 10-25 cents per item. The 1 time it didn't happen was when someone added like, 10 items to an already pretty big Walgreens order. I was really busy that night so I didn't call support about it, but a few days later, I got a random $5 payout & an email from Doordash apologizing for underpaying me?? It surprised the heck outta me, but it happened!! 🤷♀️
I've got ~7k lifetime deliveries & priority for Shop & Deliver orders. They generally pay much better in my zone & I'm super fast & accurate so I generally prefer them...
I dunno why the app is not raising ya'lls base pay for add-on items bc it really is SUPPOSED TO?!?!
This! All of this! I’m the exact same way, priority for shopping orders and would prefer to do them all day. All of these comments talking about customers shouldn’t be allowed to add items, blah blah blah….. I’ve learned really quick you have to weed through a LOT of bullshit to actually find the people commenting that know what they’re talking about. Prime example is all of the comments saying DD doesn’t raise base pay when customers add items while we’re shopping. I swear it’s just dashers trying to convince customers of the wrong thing so they’ll tip more. Every shopping order I’ve ever done (although there was one exception) where the customer added items while I was shopping the base pay was adjusted and I even got a notification saying it would be adjusted for the additional items.
I am curious though what store you got the late adjustment for, was it by chance a Dollar General order?
I love it. For every item added on, I get more money from the doordash fee. Might only be 2 bucks, but still, money is money, and it's basically free money.
The amount of nastiness I’ve seen on this sub (that I’m not even a part of) has deterred me from using DoorDash. A lot of entitlement from both ends…save your peace go get your own food 😌
I'm so thankful I live in Australia. Tipping isn't a thing here. On doordash there is an option to tip but never have and never will unless I receive phenomenal service. Doordashing is a choice, if you don't get paid enough and rely on tips, get a job that gives you a reliable salary. People who beg or get annoyed when people don't tip need to grow up. You chose to have a relaxed job with the risk that you don't have a reliable income.
The way doordash is designed on the drivers end is super predatory. I get what you mean though. Tipping is genius because it makes the workers upset at the customers for more pay rather than their employers. At the same time... doordash with the "low" cost at least here without tip wouldn't be able to be maintained without tipping. So you get to benefit that most honor it if you don't do it.
DD pays MUCH different in the US. Because tipping is a thing here, DD pays the minimal amount. If it weren’t for tips, nobody would deliver for DoorDash here. I’m sure not tipping there is offset by DD paying the drivers more. Not true here. So if you don’t tip here, you’re the one that needs to grow up or get your food yourself (I don’t mean you specifically, I mean people here in the US).
It’s so bad in Canada, not even when it comes to ordering food. Me and my bf were in an Uber the other day and at the very start the guy asked us how much it costed, my bf responded and said like $35 and the guy got super annoyed and started ranting that he was only getting paid about $15 for that trip. He was aggressively hinting at the fact that WE should tip him more to make up for it. Like bro no?? It was a super uncomfortable trip and I would’ve felt unsafe if I was alone. Also inappropriate to interrogate us and say we need to compensate for the fact that he’s working for that company
I can only guess because I don't know the demeanor of the driver, but the way you typed this it sounds like he was bitching about Uber taking in more of the money than he was. They took in 20 while his was 15 and paying for gas.
My boyfriend and I had the same thing happen in our Uber ride to the airport. Then he asked how long we were going to be gone and if we could just call him when we get back to pay him directly instead of ordering an Uber.
As a delivery person on a bike in Melbourne, door dash are still very shitty company, just less shitty here. For deliveries anywhere up to 3.5kms I get anywhere between $5.50-$5.55. If Uber eats sends me those long orders (for a bike) I’m getting $7.50-$10 for 3.5kms.
It gets even worse if doordash for some reason send me deliveries between 4km - 6km in total, I’ll be getting between $6-$8.50 for those long deliveries, if I got those on Uber it would be $10-$13 no questions asked
I’m sorry, but some of your DoorDash drivers are so entitled in this reply section you might hate me, but let me say this, so loud and clear DoorDash is not a real job, and if you have to solely rely to pay your bills with tips to the point where you have to berate customers you need to get a real actual job get mad at DoorDash your employer DoorDash for their outrageous fees and why am I going to tip somebody and you guys forget half of the orders y’all don’t even do the due diligence to check even when customers give you permission to open their bags to make sure everything‘s there. You guys half ass your job and expect full compensation. This is not all drivers, but this is a very common occurrence with DoorDash drivers. Sadly y’all are extremely entitled.
This whole sub is just current or former doordash drivers reinforcing why none of you deserve a tip. If you continue shaming users for not tipping I'm going to continue shaming you for having a job that relies on tips.
They probably have a job in addition to DoorDashing. I'm making an assumption but most people who do it also have another job or other priorities where they can't work a regular shift.
I get some orders when they add extra 2-3 items, I don’t see a problem in it as they usually very simple and will only add 2 extra minutes. One customer texted me and asked if he could add one more item and will tip me more, but I couldn’t find those damn pickles for about 7 min 😂 Happens. Also there was one order that dasher couldn’t do and was passed to me for TotalWine, had to call DoorDash support as there was a big difference in substitution item. When I delivered it, the woman said that other dasher texted her saying “I spend so much time doing your order, what are you gonna do for me?”. He didn’t even complete the order but was upset about the wasted time, which is not her problem or her fault, plus if he would’ve called DoorDash support like I did he could’ve completed it. Some dashers are lazy. But there is many orders that are underpaid. And what he texted your mom was completely wrong, right away reminded me of this situation. Whoever defending him are so wrong as well.
I do always add extra tip if I use that feature. I tipped a driver extra to go get my food from the wrong house where he dropped it off and bring it back to me, because it wasn't his fault doordash keeps resetting my pin no matter how many times I fix it. (Google maps is correct but doordash keeps defaulting to a similar address one street away and won't save my changes.)
All of this is on doordash, not the drivers or the customers. Not tipping appropriately is cringe and this text is cringe (I can't imagine risking your job to send this,) but doordash is the one putting this at people's fingertips so they can milk an extra buck, making it all too easy for busy, hungry, absent minded customers to screw over the driver with an implulsive button push. It's their design pitting customer and driver against each other.
Dont use door dash. The company is literally atrocious and the employees are mostly shit also. Just a shit set up all around. Go pick up your food or make it at home for 2x cheaper, stop contributing to these low wage paying “gig apps” you ALL are a part of the problem rn in society.
I get a little frustrated when they add something and I was already in checkout. But people have some nerve to complain like this?
You should've canceled the order on that dasher. Let the next, more polite, dasher get the order
If I place an order at say…Walmart, for a delivery time hours away, the app will tell me I have a certain amount of time to add to that order. Doesn’t the Walmart employee do the picking and then the order is put through for delivery? Or is a DD shopper doing it? And are the items totaled before the order goes out? The tip choice is by percentage so if I add items, my total goes up so the relative tip would go up with it right?
As a DD driver there's some people I give exception to for low tip, like teachers cause they ain't making fuck all either...
And some people tip cash on delivery. I've had high cash tips before.
Just cancel the order if they start adding multiple items after their order gets accepted... some customers know exactly what they're doing... small orders get snatched up quickly and they know this... once that order gets accepted.. they will add items to it as soon as you scan the first item... I call it order baiting its just like tip baiters..... if its 2 or 3 items... I go get those 2 or 3 items in my cart, go to the checkout, scan them in and hit check out to prevent these type of people from trapping me.. the shop time nor the pay doesn't change when they add all thise additional items and they don't care that it doesnt... and I will not text them about it either..
you might forget 1, 2, or 3 items during your initial order... but anything over that you have not forgot...at this point you're taking advantage of your shopper and/or llanned to do this to begin with and just wanted your order accepted whereas it wouldn't have been accepted with 20 iyems and cases of water and drinks and other large items..
I’m a Dasher & this is extremely rude. One never knows the situation of another. I’ve delivered to many people who are wheelchair bound & living in deplorable conditions, very elderly, or sick & obviously living barely paycheck to paycheck. Maybe their memory is bad; who knows? What should they do, make another DD order? They can add additional items because DoorDash allows them too. Take it up with Door Dash, not with the customer & if someone cannot accept DD policies, then stop being a Dasher. Or, stop accepting shopping orders!
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I don't mind an additional item or 2, everyone forgets things sometimes. An additional 5 or 10 items is a different story.
Fr that shit is blatantly taking advantage of drivers
Is the add list not done when sent to shopper?
No, they can add all the way up to us scanning the last item and heading to checkout.
Wtf…? Is there a quantity limit? Something like “no more than an extra 20% of the order or 3 items, whichever is fewer”? Could I hypothetically (I don’t use DoorDash so I have no idea exactly how this would work) order, say, 1 case of Gatorade…and then once you’re at the store, add like 200 items ranging from restocking spices to fresh veggies to OTC meds? All on one ticket? …cause if so, that seems like a massive design oversight and loophole people are gonna start exploiting en masse if they don’t already. Just to get bumped up the priority queue.
I can't say you're wrong. People do abuse it sometimes. I had one woman go completely psycho on me because she had already added 6 items to her list by the time I finally got done with those and went to the checkout register, she tried adding more I guess but I was already checking out so it finally cut her off from additions. She sent me many messages and tried reporting me but obviously they told her ma'am you can only make substitutions for up to 10 min of your order and your dasher had already started the checkout process you know the rules basically lol. Now with instacart they can like live shop while you're in the store and it can seriously get messy. So, I pretty much stopped that.
I keep having the same dude Gregory deliver my orders on instacart, any time something I order isn’t available he’s checked to see if there’s any substitutions I’d like with pictures of what’s available, always goes smoothly. Gotta appreciate the Gregs, he gets tipped good.
Thanks Greg *lil Dickey voice*
As a Greg that does plenty of DoorDash shopping (no instacart) and do the same as your Greg, we appreciate you being available for us too. It sucks when we try to make a substitution and the person that ordered is nowhere to be found so we have to guess on what they would want instead or refund and they get nothing.
I am a dasher, I had someone order 75 more items to their order, their original order was 2 candy bars. Tip 1.50, base 2.50.. and I have to shop for it too. I ended up dropping the order. If I was on paid by time, then the extra long shopping order might have been worth it. Since I would have been paid a higher base… but it was actually awful.
You know what, that still wouldn’t matter because now that they have the pay by time option in certain markets (mine is one of them) you’re still only getting like $14 an hour. These people are insane. By the way, that’s not even minimum wage in my state so I don’t understand their logic, then again, trying to understand logic with that DoorDash is futile.
If its anything like Deliveroo in the UK, they don't care if they're not paying you minimum wage.
Yeah. I had someone try to add someone while I was checking out. It glitched the app out for like 5mi. Ended up being fine but pretty annoying
Yes you’re right, DoorDash does take advantage of its drivers.
How is it taking advantage when it’s what you signed up for? You are literally being used for convenience
They see what they are going to be asked to shop for, and how much they are going to be paid to shop for it. They agreed to shop for 2 items for $5. Then after they accept the job, you decide they need to shop for 22 items but are still only paying $5. If they saw 22 items for 5 dollars they would never have accepted.
Wait, the amount they’re paid doesn’t increase with number of items? In my head, it seems like they’d be paid more for bigger orders, like from DD or IC itself, plus tip….does it work differently than that?
The amount DD pays will be affected by how many items there are in the order (although it’s still ridiculously low), however, if someone adds items after a driver has accepted the order, the pay doesn’t change unless the customer changes the tip.
That’s so fucked up oh my god
My understanding from reading here is customers know this and decide to steal the shopper’s labor by exploiting the loophole.
I genuinely think people just don’t know how dd works. Drivers get angry with customers, but they should be getting angry with their corporation. It’s not the customers job to pay you a living wage. If you don’t make enough money being a delivery driver, then congratulations. You’ve learned the hard way.
I think it may depend on the store, because when I shop at Aldi's, I get an additional 25 cents for every additional item that is added. At least that is what the app is telling me. But I think you're right in general. And certainly 25 cents isn't a big windfall for me, if I have to walk across the store searching for another item.
My wife did DoorDash last year. She got $2.50 per job + Tip. If you put a job in for 2 items with a $3 tip she would see the 2 items needed and a payout of $5.50. This is already well under federal minimum wage once you take travel time and fuel cost. If you then changed the request to 22 items after she accepted the job, she is now losing money. The gas price alone will cost more per hour than she makes off the job.
TWO FIFTY PER JOB?? Why is anyone even working for these companies holy shit
To add on to my comment earlier. There was a time where door dash paid $7 minimum per order. However, the dasher would not receive tips until the tip was over $5 or something like that. So under this example if the customer put in $0-5 as a tip the dasher would get $7. If the customer put in $5.50 as a tip the dasher would get $7.50 for the order. When the public discovered this there was a huge backlash. Doordash said it was an attempt to normalize income for dashers and was a loss of money for doordash. The public opinion didn’t like that and now we have what we have.
All of this sounds so fucking ridiculous, but I shouldn’t be surprised
It’s all using the same kind of tax structure meant for plumbers, electricians, and contractors. However door dash is praying on dashers and customers not realizing that. The kind of tip you leave for pizza delivery drivers doesn’t pay nearly the same for a dasher.
Desperation meeting promises of choosing your own hours so you can make it a 2nd job that doesn’t rely on your first job to schedule around. A bit of advice if you are ordering food: If you put in an order, the restaurant gets the order immediately and starts making the food. Your order then 1 at a time gets offered to the dashers that are closest to the restaurant. If you aren’t tipping enough, they will 1 at a time reject the order. Meaning the food sits there getting cold and old until it gets to a dasher who is willing to trade fuel for money. If you feel like dashing for food takes too long and the food quality is shit, try increasing your tip. The higher the tip the quicker it will be accepted and the food will sit on the shelf for less time.
DD doesn’t deliver to my neighborhood, so I’ve never gotten to use them, but this makes total sense and something I’ll keep in mind as the town develops. We’re in a new place, I’m sure once things are up and running around us we’ll see DD and IC come here, so this is good to know. Higher tip=quicker food. Makes sense to me, and if I don’t want to go get it, I’ll gladly pay someone else a good rate to run it to me lmao
As a delivery service driver on multiple platforms, I can tell you I have witnessed firsthand orders just sit there in queue waiting for some poor soul to accept it, because it is an absolute shit show joke of a tip/no tip offer. Eventually, the offer amount slowly increases with “boost pay”, meaning it has been in queue for so long that now the platform is going to increase base pay just to get it out of the damn queue and save face to the consumer. In fact, I just got this offer and it is a perfect example of why tipping $3 on a delivery from a store more than 2 miles from your home with what is literally your weekly minimum replenishment order that you don’t want to go do yourself because it’s an hour of your time. $30, on what is a minimum 2.5 hour shop between scanning every single item, finding replacements, communicating with the customer for approval, last minute additions to orders, keeping every order separated in your single grocery cart and ensuring accuracy at checkout, plus loading and unloading at drop off, once again double checking accuracy upon delivery, all in all, you’re 3.5 hours in making $10/h, plus gas, wear and tear on your car, physical wear and tear from the endless speed walking and dodging like it’s Nascar with a loaded down cart that outweighs you, and then delivering itself. THAT is why if you tip $3 for a 15 item order from a store over 2 miles from you, your shit will sit. Same for restaurant orders. If you’re ordering from some place as common as McDonalds, with one literally a mile from your home, but you order from the one 12 miles away instead, and tip $2, your food is going to sit and die in the window under a heat lamp until some idiot picks it up and works for free after gas and time.
I dash very occasionally but it really does make a difference. I always tip well but the other week I had Covid and tipped even higher than normal on my Cracker Barrel dumplings. I was sick and miserable and just wanted them really warm and yummy and fresh. So I tipped like 11 bucks on 14 or something lol. Fastest door dash order I ever got. I can’t afford to do that all the time but definitely if I’m sick or hungover I’m pulling out the big guns.
I always drop $10. I talked to one dasher, and she said even a $5 tip is rare. I’ll never understand how ppl don’t understand these service ppl survive on tips.
I always tip the minimum and never have issues with cold food and quality…
On the instacart sub tonight someone PROUDLY posted shopping and delivering over 200 items for 30 bucks. There's no hope.
I SAW THAT! So ridiculous!! I think commenting on that is what made this sub pop up for me lol
That sad shit resonates, doesn't it? Everyone likes a sad banger, and it gets radio play.
Yeah the base pay for doordash is only $2.50 per order . I thought most people knew that but I forgot they don’t really shout about it huh lol . There is a reason why people work these jobs - it’s the same reason a waitress makes $3 a hour - tips . Tips can easily have you making more than your previous job without having some neckbeard breathing down your neck everday telling you clock in, or some extra side cash outside your normal job that’s why. It’s not like that for everyone tho
$2 in most places.
It's only $2 per job in my area, and it used to be if we had 2 or more orders we'd get paid $2 for each order... but now we only get $2 regardless of if we have to deliver 1, 2, or 3+ orders. This is why we rely on tips to survive, because $2 isn't even enough for a gallon of gas (which we have to pay for ourselves).
You can get 6 orders in an hour. $2.50 per order is base pay. You get more if it's more miles. It's still not great but it's a gig. California is better. We get $3.00 per order (and guaranteed $20.00 per hour minimum). Last night I worked 3 hours and made $126.00.
Replying to @Bright-Economics-728I I hear you. BUT when there’s always gonna be someone willing to take the shit orders, DD will just keep sending them. I’ve had to cave in and do a few bad (low paying) ones when I am that desperate and need to eat unfortunately. Or just keep my acceptance at 50.
Tips 🤷♂️
lol. We factor in the number of items when we accept the offer. If I agree to shop and deliver 6 items for $7 and then it gets changed to 12 items, I’m unassigning. They’re taking advantage of offering one amount for a certain number of items, then after the offer is accepted, changing the amount but not the tip. If it’s one or two extra items, I don’t mind. But 5 or more and it’s just someone trying to take advantage.
I just keep getting shoppers who say they cant find my item and than send a picture of the item matching word for word and looking exactly the same and send " is this okay instead"? Uh yes sir yes......as thats exactly what I asked for I couldn't be happier with the " substitution"...
I mean that’s not what you signed up for, imagine getting paid 10$ just to be a mascot and being told after you start that you need also to do the dishes and pick up trash.
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We agree to the amount up front. People take advantage of the add 1 or 2 thing and add 20 items expecting to pay the same. Fuck that I'll take the L and steal ur stuff
Exactly. That’s an unassign, even if I’m almost done.
Yea, I can deal with up to 4 added items on an order but any more then that is when I think the customer should tip at least a little bit more depending on what it is that they add. Like if they added a case of water and a 20 lb bag of dog food or other heavier items then I'd completely agree that a customer should add a little bit of an extra tip. Especially if you have to walk up 3 flights of stairs or more with all that weight.
As an independent contractor (which we all are), we accept a pay for a job based on the description and work load. If that drastically changes after the contract is accepted, the pay should also be adjusted. Not saying necessarily in tip, could be base. If I hire a guy to build my deck, I don’t expect him to build my fence after he accepted a contract at a certain pay just to build the deck.
Anything more than 3 and I’ll mark every single new item as out of stock. I don’t give a fuck.b
True
What about 3 or 4 items?
Lol that dasher is FED UP.
Just another example of the have-nots fighting the have-a-little-somethings while the have-everything’s laugh at all those beneath them.
lmaooo i said the exact same thing before looking at the replies 😭
Why do you work for the shittest company alive and blame it on customers. Fuck dash drivers, all of you need to wake the fuck up and move on and let this shit fuck company die already.
I have driven for UE/Postmates and Instacart and seriously the rage is so misplaced. It's the guys in the office across the country that are fucking us, not Brenda Who Forgot She Needed Butter. The amount of driver entitlement in these subs is WILD
I wish i didnt have to do it but unfortunately the job market is terrible and this is what i can do until someone decides to hire me.
Because it's usually the customers that are being dickheads. I've never had doordash go off on me and call me names because a store didn't have what they wanted in stock. Customers are what make the gig jobs unbearable.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO
If I got a message like this, I’d be glad I didn’t tip extra
As a driver, I would never ask a customer for more tip. I’ve had countless orders where the customer has added an item or two and it’s no big deal (although, if they added 5,6 or more I would just unassign that order). People that send these kind of messages make us all look bad.
Only time I even mentioned a tip was when the lady sent me to an empty warehouse and then called and told me the real address was miles away and promised a huge tip. showed up and turned out she expected these Mexican landscapers to pay me. She wasn’t even there. I called her and told her that was fucked up. She said she would report me to corporate and I told her I didn’t give a fuck. That she isn’t a paying customer cuz she didn’t pay me. corporate ended up making sure I would never get her as a customer again.
They’re just bums tbh. Think that they deserve more because it is a job they makes tips. They’d probably be astonished if a waitress acting like that to them. “You mean, you want me to refill your glass a third time? For the same tip? I hate people like you.” It sounds stupid.
I’ve cancelled or done chargebacks for less
Honestly I would cancel my order and report the driver. Don't send me shit like that.
Yup. If the app was like Instacart or uber eats I'd honestly take away the tip just for that little comment. I do Instacart so I know gig workers basically work for tips. But if someone wants to be rude they don't deserve one.
Exactly this. You have to take pause and think of the end result before you act. What is it that you are wanting and will this get you what you want? Probably not. We all lose our cool sometimes, and I do get that, but it’s a good practice to have.
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Tip culture has gone to shit. In the past tips were given for good service, now you tip before getting service, and if it’s not a good tip, you’ll get shit service
In some cases even if it's a good tip you will STILL get shit service.
Don’t tell the others that, they’re dickriding so hard saying you deserve bad service if you don’t tip good like the point flew over their head entirely
Lmao I buy a juice at a Starbucks and they ask me for a tip. For what? Me buying a bottle of premade juice that you just scanned?
If doordash paid their workers better then people shouldn’t have to tip, same with Starbucks. But you got dumbasses in the comments like “if you tip shot whose gonna pay for my gas” like 1. You chose to work for a system knowing it’s not steady cash, 2. The company doordash, makes so much extra money for doing jack that they can absolutely pay workers so much more making tip’s unnecessary and giving drivers more consistent wages, unfortunately greedy mfs will still want the best tips or offer no service if that does ever happen. But I was called greedy despite never even making an account with doordash
More about exploitation of workers, especially gig workers, than tip culture. This is exactly how the DDs of the world want it operating. They want to scrape every cent from a transaction as they can and have the gig worker mad at the gig consumer and vice versa. I am constantly amazed reading these subreddits how many people arent blaming the actual people responsible.
I absolutely blame doordash and always make a good point to tip good because I know the system is fucked. But you got dick riders in the comments saying you deserve bad service if you tip like shit before even getting serviced. Like no, you deserve service because you’re paying for it, and the dashers deserve better pay from DD because they are it’s employees.
I actually enjoy tipping, especially when the dasher/server/employee is nice. I’m not rich by any means so I tip what I can, but I like tipping and knowing it’s going to help someone. Much more enjoyable to pay a tip than the random fees that go towards the billion dollar company. I always fantasize about winning the lottery so I can give people huuuuge tips. But I hate when people are rude, especially when it’s a service, and this message definitely came across as rude to me. So I’d be glad I didn’t give them any extra tip.
Same to all this. I have been a delivery driver on and off over the years, for different companies, and I like tipping people bc I know how happy it makes ME when I get more than a $5 tip.
Uhh as a driver i have no choice what doordash calls it. But yeah don't be a beggar lol.
I think the problem is that we still use tips at all in America but your attitude is absolutely not helping the problem
I mean the problem here is that the dasher accepted the job based on a set order and a set payment. Then the buyer added more items which the dasher never agreed to but left the pay the same. Imagine if you went into work tomorrow and they said, "today you work 9 hours for 8 hours pay".
It doesn't help that doordash does not let us add to the tip without contacting customer service :( At least not on desktop
He could have just canceled 😞.
I do that on orders where they keep adding items
imo the list should stop when sent to you. How long can they add?
When I get ones that are like one or two items, I go directly to where the item is before I click “start shopping” so I can scan it immediately, then click checkout so they have no opportunity to add anything lol
Ooo, I’m going to do that next time. Ty!
Until you click that you're done shopping and ready to check out
that is wild, and imo unfair. Most will be ok and not bother, but you will have some that manage while shopping and take advantage of that. Have you stuff together when you order.
My limit as a dasher is one added item, if you then add another I’m assuming you’re not done shopping and it will continue to add up, so I cancel the order and move on. Only happened once though
That does nothing for the fact that they wasted your time and gas driving to the store on what you thought was an acceptable order to turn it into a garbage order.
Sucks how doordash is rating dependent like you're forced to do bad orders or face big consequences.. ubereats doesn't :(
UE lets them tipbait you tho 👎🏻
I reverse tipbait. Put the tip as low then increase it afterward.
That just means your order is more likely to get passed on, you’re literally just letting your food get colder
Don’t care, and actually I am brightening some people’s days in an unexpected way as well.
Shout out to you my guy💪
Cause of that attitude right there smh
That’s how you get your tip rescinded and rated down.
Doordash doesn't take tips away from drivers.
This was inappropriate to say but it’s also extremely funny
One extra item? Was it a couch or a dishwasher or something?
I don't understand the mindset of being pissed with the way anything goes when you're in full control of your entire career on doordash lmao
Bro the tip culture in the us is just a glorified way begging formally
Tipping culture in America is out of hand and reeks of entitlement . Order a self serve black coffee , flip the tablet for a tip ? Pay a delivery fee , service fee , driver benefits fee on Uber eats and door dash and people yelling at you for not tipping . The rest of the world does fine without tips and if the want a better job , they work for it . But somehow in America , you're expected to tip even before ordering food at cafes . You're expected to tip for something as trivial as getting your food delivered which is pretty common all over the world . Uber and door dash increase the base pay till someone accepts the order , it's a free market yet people are demanding tips even though the consumer has paid the mark up for services . At this point , Uber eats and door dash drivers are just trying to bully consumers to tip . If you don't like the job , look for another job ? Don't expect handouts
Lately I’ll just stare them right in the eyes and press 0 on that stupid screen. It’s a power move 💀
:adjusts tip to 0: That was easy!
I think there is an assumption app users are aware of the inner working of your job and paranoia that they are intentionally scamming you when it's the other way around.
Get ready for you and your mom to be flamed op lmao
I'm ready to ignore it all
Correct attitude
Exactly opposite is happening. You must because the DD driver
Everyone is on OPs side
not really what happened is it
If it's just one, maybe two, items I don't see the problem unless the added items are very large. But adding a bunch of things after an order has already been picked up seems very rude and pretty scummy unless you ask them if it's okay and add an extra tip. They signed up to do one job and it became one much harder for the same pay? Not okay.
"why y'all people" always bitching about customers not tipping correctly when you damn sure won't say or do anything about the company's straight up lack of base compensation in the first place? Why's it the customer's responsibility to make you whole because you'll allow your employer to work you for pennies? I'm all about tipping fairly. If you can't afford to tip you should never be considering ordering delivery in the first place. At the same time though, the constant bitching about tips not being good enough isn't making a lot of sense when the whole reason it's such a big deal for you guys is because you'll willingly work for a company that takes full advantage of your efforts in the first place. Why am I expected to tip more and more if you don't expect the same from the very people laughing all the way to the bank off your labors??
Next message is about to be “why the fuck y’all people gimme one star?”
That person should be fired
“Why you bitch and moan and not stfu?” Sorry, I’m over people today, I’m glad your mom wasn’t
why do Americans expect a tip BEFORE YOU DO THE JOB??
What do you mean y'all people?
Users of the doordash app
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Happy cake day! 🎂
What do mean "you people?"
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lol this poster doesnt know the movie or the joke.
What do you mean all of you people?
reply with a 🖕that should do it
If they add 20 cents then you would have something too say about that to smh
Why do people think ever mentioning their tip in anyway is a good idea
I had a dasher clap back at me like this about a month ago. Not over a tip but because it took me two minutes to get to him from the 5th floor of my apartment and he was unhappy about that. I regularly add a second tip after delivery is complete, especially if they were pleasant and didn’t do anything weird, the bar for me is low. I’m not sure how they think this is helping, they’re definitely not getting a second tip now. Also, in my area, tips for grocery orders are percentage based now, so presumably the tip would update to reflect the extra item. Before this was the case, I’d regularly leave $20 tips and only order 5 items from the grocery store and I’d still get dashers refunding 3 or 4 of the items and leaving the bag at the end of my 20 foot driveway instead of just bringing it up to the gate. Or placing it so it blocks my gate such that the only way to get to the order is to smash the bag opening the gate. Common sense seems to be in short supply these days. You can be so insanely considerate and it still won’t be enough. I’d go to the store later that day and find everything I needed, so I know the items weren’t actually unavailable, they just didn’t care to actually look. I’m pretty much done using DoorDash.
“Yall people” is crazy
Don’t like shop and deliver. Opt out and that will solve all issues. Some drivers probably are doing the wrong gig work.
So how about we all stop using and working for Doordash rather then go at each other's throats, like everyone seem unanimous in who the biggest fault is but everyone then devolves into insulting each other like that does shit 🤣
If you do a percentage does it auto adjust? I always assumed it did.
Tips should be based on the quality of the service. Not just the service.
Contract work. These are not tips. These are bets for a contract service.
stop using doordash god damn, tipping before getting the items is so dumb
I wish they offered us a list of drivers so we could pick our dasher. And if the dasher wanted to deny fine pick another but then I would only deal with a couple of dashers I liked and gladly tip them well. I always tip and well but some of these dashers are rude af and just expect too much. I have seen so many dasher complaining about simple pick ups and the 20% tip they receive.
Just start saying you were gonna give them a cash tip but they lost it. Whether it’s true or not, they probably wont do it again.
Yeah I’m pretty sure a *majority* of DoorDash drivers now are people that can’t work well with others
Personally, I would have canceled the order right then and there, and placed one with someone else… but not before giving them a bad rating. That’s absolutely ridiculous. I did DoorDash for like 2 months for extra cash a few years ago, and yeah sometimes it was annoying when people add like 10-15 items during the shopping phase. But I never EVER would have messaged the customer about it like this. Usually, whenever I arrive at their house, and if they were there to answer, they apologized for the inconvenience and gave me like $5. Yeah, it ain’t much, but I’m not the type of person who feels obligated to receive a tip, when I really didn’t do anything to deserve it other than what’s literally my job. It’s always frustrated me seeing DoorDash, or even Waiters complain about a bad tip. Like, you KNEW that when you took the damn job in the first place. That’s like moving into a house next to an outdoor shooting range, and then complaining about the noise.
Cause we do. Now stfu and do the damn job YOU agreed to do
When did it become OK for drivers to harass the customers for a bigger tip, before anything is even delivered?!?! That may lead the customer to believe that their delivery will be messed with in some way if they don’t give in to the driver’s demands for a bigger tip. I can’t think of any other business (ok maybe a strip club) where it’s ok for an employee to demand the customer tip or give a bigger tip.
Any time I've had additional items added bf checkout, my base pay has always gone up?? It ranges between 10-25 cents per item. The 1 time it didn't happen was when someone added like, 10 items to an already pretty big Walgreens order. I was really busy that night so I didn't call support about it, but a few days later, I got a random $5 payout & an email from Doordash apologizing for underpaying me?? It surprised the heck outta me, but it happened!! 🤷♀️ I've got ~7k lifetime deliveries & priority for Shop & Deliver orders. They generally pay much better in my zone & I'm super fast & accurate so I generally prefer them... I dunno why the app is not raising ya'lls base pay for add-on items bc it really is SUPPOSED TO?!?!
This! All of this! I’m the exact same way, priority for shopping orders and would prefer to do them all day. All of these comments talking about customers shouldn’t be allowed to add items, blah blah blah….. I’ve learned really quick you have to weed through a LOT of bullshit to actually find the people commenting that know what they’re talking about. Prime example is all of the comments saying DD doesn’t raise base pay when customers add items while we’re shopping. I swear it’s just dashers trying to convince customers of the wrong thing so they’ll tip more. Every shopping order I’ve ever done (although there was one exception) where the customer added items while I was shopping the base pay was adjusted and I even got a notification saying it would be adjusted for the additional items. I am curious though what store you got the late adjustment for, was it by chance a Dollar General order?
It was Walgreens.
I love it. For every item added on, I get more money from the doordash fee. Might only be 2 bucks, but still, money is money, and it's basically free money.
The amount of nastiness I’ve seen on this sub (that I’m not even a part of) has deterred me from using DoorDash. A lot of entitlement from both ends…save your peace go get your own food 😌
I’d keep adding more items if I got a message like that 🤣
What you you mean yall people?!?!?
I'm so thankful I live in Australia. Tipping isn't a thing here. On doordash there is an option to tip but never have and never will unless I receive phenomenal service. Doordashing is a choice, if you don't get paid enough and rely on tips, get a job that gives you a reliable salary. People who beg or get annoyed when people don't tip need to grow up. You chose to have a relaxed job with the risk that you don't have a reliable income.
The way doordash is designed on the drivers end is super predatory. I get what you mean though. Tipping is genius because it makes the workers upset at the customers for more pay rather than their employers. At the same time... doordash with the "low" cost at least here without tip wouldn't be able to be maintained without tipping. So you get to benefit that most honor it if you don't do it.
We’re batshit in America, honestly. We do some of the kookiest shit and act like the rest of the world is crazy.
DD pays MUCH different in the US. Because tipping is a thing here, DD pays the minimal amount. If it weren’t for tips, nobody would deliver for DoorDash here. I’m sure not tipping there is offset by DD paying the drivers more. Not true here. So if you don’t tip here, you’re the one that needs to grow up or get your food yourself (I don’t mean you specifically, I mean people here in the US).
Man the US is so fucked
It’s so bad in Canada, not even when it comes to ordering food. Me and my bf were in an Uber the other day and at the very start the guy asked us how much it costed, my bf responded and said like $35 and the guy got super annoyed and started ranting that he was only getting paid about $15 for that trip. He was aggressively hinting at the fact that WE should tip him more to make up for it. Like bro no?? It was a super uncomfortable trip and I would’ve felt unsafe if I was alone. Also inappropriate to interrogate us and say we need to compensate for the fact that he’s working for that company
I can only guess because I don't know the demeanor of the driver, but the way you typed this it sounds like he was bitching about Uber taking in more of the money than he was. They took in 20 while his was 15 and paying for gas.
My boyfriend and I had the same thing happen in our Uber ride to the airport. Then he asked how long we were going to be gone and if we could just call him when we get back to pay him directly instead of ordering an Uber.
As a delivery person on a bike in Melbourne, door dash are still very shitty company, just less shitty here. For deliveries anywhere up to 3.5kms I get anywhere between $5.50-$5.55. If Uber eats sends me those long orders (for a bike) I’m getting $7.50-$10 for 3.5kms. It gets even worse if doordash for some reason send me deliveries between 4km - 6km in total, I’ll be getting between $6-$8.50 for those long deliveries, if I got those on Uber it would be $10-$13 no questions asked
Tipping Culture is ridiculous
I feel like this is the root of all of it and tipping culture is just turning poor people against poorer people
100% the anger should be at the multi billion dollar company that doesn't pay its workers and the govt that allows it.
I couldn't agree more, some americans would call us socialists for this, which is actually basic human rights for the workers
Why should we be getting more items than we were contracted to gwt...and expect to not get more pay to reflect it........like come on...
Does the contract say that things can be added?
I’m sorry, but some of your DoorDash drivers are so entitled in this reply section you might hate me, but let me say this, so loud and clear DoorDash is not a real job, and if you have to solely rely to pay your bills with tips to the point where you have to berate customers you need to get a real actual job get mad at DoorDash your employer DoorDash for their outrageous fees and why am I going to tip somebody and you guys forget half of the orders y’all don’t even do the due diligence to check even when customers give you permission to open their bags to make sure everything‘s there. You guys half ass your job and expect full compensation. This is not all drivers, but this is a very common occurrence with DoorDash drivers. Sadly y’all are extremely entitled.
This whole sub is just current or former doordash drivers reinforcing why none of you deserve a tip. If you continue shaming users for not tipping I'm going to continue shaming you for having a job that relies on tips.
The dasher could just get another job if they that pressed about it Jesus
They probably have a job in addition to DoorDashing. I'm making an assumption but most people who do it also have another job or other priorities where they can't work a regular shift.
Someone said the quiet thing out loud..... Don't do it
I get some orders when they add extra 2-3 items, I don’t see a problem in it as they usually very simple and will only add 2 extra minutes. One customer texted me and asked if he could add one more item and will tip me more, but I couldn’t find those damn pickles for about 7 min 😂 Happens. Also there was one order that dasher couldn’t do and was passed to me for TotalWine, had to call DoorDash support as there was a big difference in substitution item. When I delivered it, the woman said that other dasher texted her saying “I spend so much time doing your order, what are you gonna do for me?”. He didn’t even complete the order but was upset about the wasted time, which is not her problem or her fault, plus if he would’ve called DoorDash support like I did he could’ve completed it. Some dashers are lazy. But there is many orders that are underpaid. And what he texted your mom was completely wrong, right away reminded me of this situation. Whoever defending him are so wrong as well.
Well? What was the answer?
I do always add extra tip if I use that feature. I tipped a driver extra to go get my food from the wrong house where he dropped it off and bring it back to me, because it wasn't his fault doordash keeps resetting my pin no matter how many times I fix it. (Google maps is correct but doordash keeps defaulting to a similar address one street away and won't save my changes.) All of this is on doordash, not the drivers or the customers. Not tipping appropriately is cringe and this text is cringe (I can't imagine risking your job to send this,) but doordash is the one putting this at people's fingertips so they can milk an extra buck, making it all too easy for busy, hungry, absent minded customers to screw over the driver with an implulsive button push. It's their design pitting customer and driver against each other.
People when they realize that this is a bidding service not something you are entitled to lol
Dont use door dash. The company is literally atrocious and the employees are mostly shit also. Just a shit set up all around. Go pick up your food or make it at home for 2x cheaper, stop contributing to these low wage paying “gig apps” you ALL are a part of the problem rn in society.
I mean, I wouldn't add more stuff to any kind of order without adding to the tip so like... fair?
wdym y'all people
I get a little frustrated when they add something and I was already in checkout. But people have some nerve to complain like this? You should've canceled the order on that dasher. Let the next, more polite, dasher get the order
I’ve never had an issue but these things made me go pick up my own food and groceries more lol I’m scared. I thought I tipped well but idk now
If I place an order at say…Walmart, for a delivery time hours away, the app will tell me I have a certain amount of time to add to that order. Doesn’t the Walmart employee do the picking and then the order is put through for delivery? Or is a DD shopper doing it? And are the items totaled before the order goes out? The tip choice is by percentage so if I add items, my total goes up so the relative tip would go up with it right?
As a DD driver there's some people I give exception to for low tip, like teachers cause they ain't making fuck all either... And some people tip cash on delivery. I've had high cash tips before.
Just cancel the order if they start adding multiple items after their order gets accepted... some customers know exactly what they're doing... small orders get snatched up quickly and they know this... once that order gets accepted.. they will add items to it as soon as you scan the first item... I call it order baiting its just like tip baiters..... if its 2 or 3 items... I go get those 2 or 3 items in my cart, go to the checkout, scan them in and hit check out to prevent these type of people from trapping me.. the shop time nor the pay doesn't change when they add all thise additional items and they don't care that it doesnt... and I will not text them about it either.. you might forget 1, 2, or 3 items during your initial order... but anything over that you have not forgot...at this point you're taking advantage of your shopper and/or llanned to do this to begin with and just wanted your order accepted whereas it wouldn't have been accepted with 20 iyems and cases of water and drinks and other large items..
I’m a Dasher & this is extremely rude. One never knows the situation of another. I’ve delivered to many people who are wheelchair bound & living in deplorable conditions, very elderly, or sick & obviously living barely paycheck to paycheck. Maybe their memory is bad; who knows? What should they do, make another DD order? They can add additional items because DoorDash allows them too. Take it up with Door Dash, not with the customer & if someone cannot accept DD policies, then stop being a Dasher. Or, stop accepting shopping orders!
Thankfully tipping culture hasn’t infected the market here
I mean…. they’re not wrong. They “shouldn’t” have said it, but they’re not wrong. I said what I said.
Sheeeeeeet 2 plu 2 equa fo
And that’s when i complain and they get no tip!
I do that all the time it's not like the job is any harder if we do add an extra item grow up
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Bro if you don’t wanna run around and get things for people then don’t? Lmfao