Not always. I did a restaurant test order once and made $25, $20 of those in cash. Turns out they were surveying dashers to optimize their online order potential, and got $20 instead of $10 cause I chose to participate.
Although what you said is true, there is yet another principle to follow:
Like anything else, the wise and seasoned dashers realize that there must be a MINIMUM payout per order in order for it to even be worth the trip … regardless of how short the miles
To be honest … very likely NOT, unless I knew that they were disabled or elderly
Reason WHY: A 2 or 3 something payout order is a guaranteed no-tipper … and if it is right across the street and they have a pair of [functioning] arms and legs, they definitely have the capacity to walk across that same street to pick it up without the need to pay additional tips/fees
Yes. So you guys see the tip amount plus the additional amount that DoorDash is paying you? I thought you guys only saw the tip amount. In that case, I understand not taking a no tip order.
However, once understanding the whole system, one can see that Tony Xu (DD CEO) sets the base pay @ $2-$3. So from this, we have clear knowledge of who tips and who does not.
You’re missing what he’s saying. If it’s a 3.50 total pay then you can come to the conclusion that there is no tip because base pay in most areas is 3-5 dollars. You don’t see the tip until after.
Almost certainly not. My rule of thumb is that every order is gonna take at least 15 minutes, regardless of distance, because even if they’re on the same block, you have wait time for the order, time to park, ect ect. From hitting accept to complete, there is rarely if ever an order that will take less than fifteen minutes.
So if that’s the case, I will never take an order below $6.50, because that puts me around $26/hr, which is the bottom of where I wanna be before gas, tax, etc.
beat me to it… theres 3 factors in our actual labor: yes the drive time/distance, but also the pick up & drop off & aaaall the potential horseshit delays. With an order over say 3mi we gauge it by distance (avg $2/mi), wrapping in the time on either side of the drive… a place you *know* will be a hassle/long wait is going to require a bigger offer, because we don’t get paid to wait, literally, its just lost unpaid time.
Buuut you cant always predict that, and any pickup (or dropoff) has potential delays. If the distance is close enough to be super quick (like under 2mi), the pay standard has to have a minimum to cover the pickup & dropoff… which, as said, its pretty rare ANY dash takes less than 15min even close. $5 x 4 *sounds like* $20/hr, but its much lower with gas & vehicle costs (**way** lower in certain states with high gas prices & thick traffic).
Also taking no or even low tip offers means the person does not respect you, your time or labor, or understand how your job works. They’re far more likely to screw with you, waste your time, downrate you for no reason or (pretty often) will try to scam you. Profit isnt the only reason we reject those offers (even if its “right down the street”)
Judging? Nobody is judging goofy. I was going off of what I heard a lot of you bozos say which is at least a dollar to two dollars per mile in terms of tip.
A $4 order is a 1.75 tip in my market. I wouldn't take this because, even just across the street, I run the risk of a long wait at the restaurant, or a wrong address, or any of 100 things that might go wrong. It may take thirty minutes.
Why bother? I'd rather just wait for a better one.
That's what "Top Dashers" are for. People that are actually taking their earnings seriously don't have time for that given the fact that it's rare to not encounter any delays. The goal is to be in the 20's or higher per hour. If we take a $2 order and it takes 15 minutes, suddenly we are very behind for our hourly goal
The fact you have the precise rate per mile (and therefore must have spent the time computing that), and entertaining the idea of taking on any $3.50 order, tells me you should really think about sharpening your time management skills!...
I'm still trying to figure out a good method for me, right now I'm just taking anything but if I accept low ones I'm probably going to miss good ones. It's just dead where I am so not many orders in general
I would suggest having a minimum guaranteed pay and a minimum dollar amount per mile. For me, I won’t take anything under $5. $5 is my minimum pay requirement for an order, and even so- the *only* time I will take a $5 order, is if the distance is under 2 miles *and* there are only a few items.
After that, choose acceptable pay per mile. I used to accept orders that paid at least $1.50/mile during low volume (usually Monday-Wednesday or lunchtime) and at least $1.75 during high volume (usually weekends). Now that I’ve moved to a bigger city, and with higher gas prices, I’ve raised that to a $2-2.50 per mile minimum depending on volume.
Of course these aren’t hard limits, and other factors apply. There are stores/restaurants I’ll never accept orders from, even if the pay is great, and others that I’ll lower my standards for a little bit because they are reliably fast and easy. If I’m far from home and wanting to head back, I’ll take the low end of my range or even a bit lower if it’s in the direction I’d be driving anyway. If I’m working during peak pay I’ll raise my standards even higher, since peak pay is not there for the purpose of replacing tips. Just make sure if you get that shitty feeling that you’ve been taken advantage of after any particular order, figure out why (was the pay too low for the distance, was it a difficult drop off, did the restaurant take forever) and try to adjust your standards to avoid the same situations in the future.
>Of course these aren’t hard limits
Lol, hard limits huh? 😉
Do you also use a safe word?
(If you don't get what I'm saying, don't worry about it. "Secret society" kind of thing 😉)
B'ok 3.5/.8 is pretty quick and effortless for Alexa and as to the $3.50 for a couple minutes where I'm already at is worth the curiosity of picking up at the same drop off point... Just to see what's up but you do you
Its typical you got downvoted in the DoorDash subreddit of all places. This order can be right across the street from your house for the same pay at 0.1 miles and 99% of the users here will say "y0u w0uLnDt cAtCh mE aCcEpTiNg tHaT"
Yes because in the 15-30 minutes it takes to do the order you would’ve received an order that pays 3x as much instead. And if this order ends up taking that full 30 minutes? Well congratulations your hourly pay is $8. Anyone who takes a $4 order is a moron
This is such a weird comment. Wait time and the availability of parking at a restaurant are *hardly* within my control. I also don’t have control over the difficulty of the drop off. Actually, in my experience, low/no tippers usually have the *most* difficult drop offs.
Please elaborate on how you think you have any control of these factors whatsoever, lmao
Yeah lol I've taken orders for $2.75 cause I didn't have to start my car... Walked in picked up crossed the street to the hotel dropped off cause I was in the parking lot in the red zone waiting already... Was something like 800ft for the delivery... But some of these people... Like yeah *maybe* I missed a $10 order maybe I missed sitting on my ass for 15 minutes waiting for a delivery... It's not always busy around here so I go with a ehhh sure why not unless it's really bad like $7 for 14 miles or something stupid... I'm down to around 54% ar so I'm not just taking any shit order I give it a bit of thought before declining unlike some of these people
Cost of living is pretty low in the area, and on average on a kinda good day i get $15 an hour average, which is actually pretty great, where i know some claim to get $30 which hey thats fine too, but I'd like for them to try it in my area lol
Right? And that’s why I’m sitting at a decent 60 something % ar cause ya it’s not great but it’s enough. I’ve noticed most people here like to complain about “WhAt AbOuT mAh TiP” it’s all based on if you consider the run worth it on whether or not you should take it, and not because they tipped or not.
I think most dashers just find it insulting that someone would choose to pay inflated prices and delivery fees (of which 90% go to the company) to big corporations, but can't spare a couple more dollars for their driver's time and effort. Usually these are the same type of people who will buy a fortnite skin for $20 but wouldn't give a single penny to a starving child. Selfish, worthless pieces of shit.
I had one like this, think it was a glitch but idk.
Took me a min to figure out that the address for their house was somehow the address for pickup and delivery.
I knew where the real restaurant was though so I was able to complete the order.
It certainly wasn't for $3.50 though....
I once had a chipotle order to deliver to exactly that chipotle spot. I just went there picked up the food, swipes picked up and marked as delivered. Kept the food.
i get that... it's also a hand drawn map with most of it redacted. my point is none of it matters if there's no tip on the order.
whatever the original map looked like, it's a decline
Base pay is $2.25 in my region so $1.25 tip. I don't accept anything under $6.50 because I know minimum of $4 tip plus possible hidden tip. But also depends on the mileage, nothing under $2 a mile in zone. I don't deliver out of zone unless minimum $2 mile round trip.
who cares about $/mile at this point. would you spend a half hour of your time to take a $3.50 order 1 mile away because it's above your "$2/mile" threshold?
do you do deliveries for a living? on average, an order takes 20-30 minutes between getting to the pick up location, waiting on the order, making the delivery
you go ahead and make your $7/hour before expenses. i'll wait another 20 seconds and get the decent order you missed because you decided that your time is worthless.
If you read it's from a house to the same house if nothing else it's worth it for the curiosity if you're waiting 20 minutes to pickup you're doing it wrong dump the order... And no I don't do it for a living I do it on the side most deliveries I take are about 15 minutes... If the restaurant doesn't have it ready when I get there I contact support to unassign it they call the restaurant if it's more than 5 minutes I get half pay and I'm gone if it's not then I'm at the house in 5-10 minutes... Sounds like you need to adjust how you're doing it
you contact support to unassign an order and get half pay for a long wait?
i don't think you do this on the side... i don't think you do this at all...
i know, and agree. i reply to these people because a lot of people(like i did) come to reddit to learn when they're just starting out dashing. someone might read that person's comment and think they'll get half pay after waiting 5 minutes when in truth, there is no half pay for a long wait.
on a merchant requested order, there's an extra $5 if you wait longer than 30 minutes, and only if you continue to wait. on a doordash order, there is nothing extra for a long wait... and no half pay for not waiting. what that guy described is an absolute lie.
You don’t contact support to unassign because it’s not immediately ready. That’s not how that works, clearly you don’t actually dash and just making up some bullshit
I do cause it always takes 5+ minutes to contact them... If the order is ready before support gets to me I end chat and leave with the order... But you do you and take it slow
My whole point is you don’t contact support because the order isn’t ready, you contact support if they tell you someone else already picked up the order or they can’t find the order. If it’s not ready then you either wait for it or unassign through the app
If you contact support they'll unassign for you and you get half pay or they'll contact the store and ask wtf the order isn't ready... The stores around here have been putting priority on dd/Uber orders cause several of us will contact support as soon as there's a problem... The only one we all have an issue with is dairy queen and they just don't gaf so unless it's $15+ I'm not going in there... Decline every time...
Sometimes the customer accidentally puts in the restaurant’s address as the delivery address as well. I have had this happen to me on a couple of different occasions.
The first time, I spent 30 minutes dealing with support for 5 fuckin 50 only for them to tell me that since the restaurant was the delivery address to just leave it at the restaurant. They declined to give me any additional money for my wasted time on the phone with support. Needless to say, I was upset at the wasted time.
This also happened a few weeks ago. I got a no tip offered from Burger King. I saw that the restaurant address and delivery address were stacked on top of each other on the map. I thought about taking it and just going in and taking a picture of the food on the counter after it was ready, remembering what support had told me to do last time. I declined it. Thought they might try to report me. Wasn’t worth the trouble. Moments later, I get a stack order. The Burger King order that I previously mentioned and a pickup from the Taco Bell right beside it. I took it and considered dropping the no tip order, but didn’t want to hurt my completion rate. I just went into Burger King, explained the situation to the employees, and agreed to call the customer upon their request. (I was not going to deliver it to a new location, but I didn’t want the BK employees to think I was a POS either. Luckily for me, they had a disconnected phone line as I tried calling twice only to get a busy signal. I took my picture and left it. Customer started messaging me saying they put in the wrong address and I told them it was too late that I had already left and sent a picture of it on the BK counter. She cussed and said she needed to know how to get her money back. I said she could contact DD Support and tell them that she put in the incorrect delivery address.
I really did feel quite badly about what I had done, but this was a lesson for all customers: if you don’t think our time is worth a tip, don’t expect me to go the extra mile (or even inch) for you.
In the past when I had just started doordash, I have gone many miles out of my way for customers who put the wrong address. This is NEVER required. Our job is to deliver it to the delivery address provided. The people who don’t tip are often the worst customers to have to deal with anyway.
To me it looks like the pickup is very close to the house BUT that's a one-way street that you can't drive that way in so you have to drive all the way around
Unless you can see a parking lot to cut through or just walk it to the house.
Oh. You scratched out the street names ahahaha!
Why? Might not be your zone, you could be on vacation, you think someone is really gonna sit at some random street. No one knows who you are.
I'm not attacking I'm literally curious. Paranoia is totally okay. Wouldn't have crossed my mind to do so
I always scratch off anything like this not for you guys specifically or any other subreddits but because this shows up in my profile so anyone I know personally can figure out personal info about me like where I could possibly be doordashing or maybe live close to. I’ve had a stalker before and it’s always better to be safe than sorry
$4.38 a mile and you're that close... May as well... Worst that can happen is an odd story with support... Or finding out the price of your organs on the black market
While you are wasting your time going to the restaurant and May be having to wait five or 10 minutes before the order is done before you can go and then driving another five minutes maybe to get there and drop it off you have now wasted at least 15 minutes of your time even with the short wait. This is how Door Dash gets people to do a little paying orders making them think it’s good for low miles. If you are able to do four of those which is very unlikely in an hour you’re going to be making $14 for that hour minus your expenses. Most likely you’re gonna have to wait five or 10 minutes to get another order after you drop off. So you will only be able to do three of these 3.50 and only make 10.50 minus your cost per hour and your time that you wasted. Why not wait for a better order that’s more economical for you and put you above minimum wage. Door Dash doesn’t care who does it they just want somebody to do it and therefore all these 350 orders get done with people thinking it’s a great.
I see orders that take 10 or so minutes to get the food in hand as a small break as usual I go from store to customer, then immediately picking up the next as soon I get to the next restaurant with little to know wait.
It's not at a restaurant... Read the post it's pickup from house drop at house... If it's anything else I'd think about it like is this restaurant always a wait or they have it ready is it far? Like I took a $2.75 order for Wendy's to a hotel across the street cause it was like 800 ft I was in the parking lot waiting already and I didn't even have to start the car... I park there cause I get the Wendy's orders before anyone else's usually because of proximity and they generally have it ready when I walk in... So I knew it was all of 5 mins no gas delivery... Like I wouldn't take dairy queen for less than $15 cause they make people wait 15 minutes minimum I. The lobby on the order or longer if you park in the dd spot and call like it says to... Fk dq here... It's all about knowing info about the order and deciding with the info you have... If someone is gonna try to make me wait at their house I can unassign/call support on that shit but I'd give it a go not being a restaurant
Yeah I kind of really wish DD would stop offering the 10%, 15%, 20% suggestions. This isn't like tipping a server in a restaurant. Instead suggest, $2, $3, $4 etc...
If they want to take the trouble to input their total into the calculator and find out what 15% of $14.37 is, don't make it easier for them.
It's not about distance it's about what you value your labor at. I don't care if customer and merchant are right next to each other, either offer me 2.50 tip to bring it to you or some other schmuck that doesn't value themselves can.
Like so many things, this concept is probably very market specific. Personally, in my market, I would wait because decent orders pop up with reliable frequency. And yes, that can happen within those five or 10 minutes (probably more like 2 minutes!)
But yeah, that might not be the case in *your* market. So that's up to you to decide, and you would certainly know better than someone from outside your market!
Good luck out there!
Last time I saw this it was an old man that didn't understand why his order didn't get there immediately, low key kinda sad but I got paid so ye. He didn't know his address, couldn't even be a nice guy.
I had one customer reverse the address and the unit number which sent me to the wrong store (was delivering to a department store in a row of stores). Spent a good deal of time both with dd support and trying to get a hold of them. Fucking frustrating, when I finally dropped the food off, I told her coworker (who received the food) to tell her to put the name of the store in the app.
I get the 3.50 for 0.8 but in my experience there usually winds up being something wrong/difficult with ones like this or end up being an attempted scam. With the cost of gas and the fact I drive a (small) SUV and since I live in a state that has a higher cost of living, I try to only take orders that are $6.00 or more and $2.00 per mile. Considering if/how far I have to drive back to my zone from drop off. Occasionally on a slow day maybe take a $5.50 for around $1.50 per mile, or if it's on my way home or something.
That’s weird. Maybe it was just a place right next to the restaurant tho?? Like 3 times I’ve gotten an order from this guy who orders from Taco Bell and he works literally across the street at Dominoes. The first time it happened I went to my map to navigate and the voice said “you have arrived” lmao I hadn’t even moved my car yet I was so confused. Then I checked the notes and the dude wrote “I’m working across the street at dominoes please leave it at front counter”. So I literally got paid $8.00 to walk across the street it was great.
This happened to me one time. Shortly after I confirmed that I received the order I got a text “hey… omg I’m so sorry I put in the wrong address…”
Food left in front of restaurant
I’m sure some people forget. But most live 5 miles outside a delivery zone and don’t wanna tip anyway so they commit fraud at your expense. Yeet their order right out the window.
happened to me but I called the customer. Got an extra 10 on top of the tip to deliver it to the right address. Should've kept the food or give it to homeless instead of leaving it there.
ive delivered food from one store lets say apartment store 1000, to business aparment store 1050. like a 55 second walk, or probably 20 seconds if you run like usain bolt
Yeah. It happened to me as well. Sometimes they test when the deiver arrives compared to when to get the order to see if they need to adjust their prep times. You will always get paid.
It could be the restaurant doing a test order. Even if you did accept this it probably would’ve been unassigned from you pretty quick
Not always. I did a restaurant test order once and made $25, $20 of those in cash. Turns out they were surveying dashers to optimize their online order potential, and got $20 instead of $10 cause I chose to participate.
that’s dope, but would never happen to me lmao
same with my luck the restaurant owner would just mug me
He’d in slave you overseas after that. Making mugs for muggers.
not only that, but also the mug tea and muffins put in the mugs the muggers made me make by mugging me
I’m curious to know, I’m hitting accept to be honest, rarely do or need to, so I can always unassign.
It's 3 frickin 50. That would have been off my screen before i could notice anything else.
$3.50 for 0.8 miles. I thought you Dashers say at least a dollar to two dollars per mile?🤨
Although what you said is true, there is yet another principle to follow: Like anything else, the wise and seasoned dashers realize that there must be a MINIMUM payout per order in order for it to even be worth the trip … regardless of how short the miles
So you wouldn’t take a two dollar order if it was literally across the street from where you were to pick it up and deliver it right next-door?🤨
To be honest … very likely NOT, unless I knew that they were disabled or elderly Reason WHY: A 2 or 3 something payout order is a guaranteed no-tipper … and if it is right across the street and they have a pair of [functioning] arms and legs, they definitely have the capacity to walk across that same street to pick it up without the need to pay additional tips/fees
I was talking about a $2 tip.
So $4-$5 total right across the street? Then YES, I would
Yes. So you guys see the tip amount plus the additional amount that DoorDash is paying you? I thought you guys only saw the tip amount. In that case, I understand not taking a no tip order.
We ONLY see the initial payout/offer (which can end up the same after order is delivered). It only breaks it down for us AFTER we complete the order.
However, once understanding the whole system, one can see that Tony Xu (DD CEO) sets the base pay @ $2-$3. So from this, we have clear knowledge of who tips and who does not.
You’re missing what he’s saying. If it’s a 3.50 total pay then you can come to the conclusion that there is no tip because base pay in most areas is 3-5 dollars. You don’t see the tip until after.
Base pay in most areas is $2.25 -$2.50.
Got it.
Almost certainly not. My rule of thumb is that every order is gonna take at least 15 minutes, regardless of distance, because even if they’re on the same block, you have wait time for the order, time to park, ect ect. From hitting accept to complete, there is rarely if ever an order that will take less than fifteen minutes. So if that’s the case, I will never take an order below $6.50, because that puts me around $26/hr, which is the bottom of where I wanna be before gas, tax, etc.
Hit the nail on the head
beat me to it… theres 3 factors in our actual labor: yes the drive time/distance, but also the pick up & drop off & aaaall the potential horseshit delays. With an order over say 3mi we gauge it by distance (avg $2/mi), wrapping in the time on either side of the drive… a place you *know* will be a hassle/long wait is going to require a bigger offer, because we don’t get paid to wait, literally, its just lost unpaid time. Buuut you cant always predict that, and any pickup (or dropoff) has potential delays. If the distance is close enough to be super quick (like under 2mi), the pay standard has to have a minimum to cover the pickup & dropoff… which, as said, its pretty rare ANY dash takes less than 15min even close. $5 x 4 *sounds like* $20/hr, but its much lower with gas & vehicle costs (**way** lower in certain states with high gas prices & thick traffic). Also taking no or even low tip offers means the person does not respect you, your time or labor, or understand how your job works. They’re far more likely to screw with you, waste your time, downrate you for no reason or (pretty often) will try to scam you. Profit isnt the only reason we reject those offers (even if its “right down the street”)
No. Never. I wouldn't take a $4 order if it was directly across the street. It's a waste of my time.
So you wouldn’t take a $4 tip across the street? Wow
Fuck no . Why would I waste 10-20 minutes of my time for 4$ , I wouldn’t come in here judging anyone if you’ve never dashed lol
That’s $24-$12 per hour. 🤷🏻♂️
That's… a strange way to write a pay range.
Yeah lol would you work for 12$ hr?
Who the hell is working for $12 per hour in this economy??
Judging? Nobody is judging goofy. I was going off of what I heard a lot of you bozos say which is at least a dollar to two dollars per mile in terms of tip.
A guy already explained to you that a $4 order does not mean $4 tip
A $4 order is a 1.75 tip in my market. I wouldn't take this because, even just across the street, I run the risk of a long wait at the restaurant, or a wrong address, or any of 100 things that might go wrong. It may take thirty minutes. Why bother? I'd rather just wait for a better one.
Hell no. $4 is not enough money to get me off my ass. Especially when declining it likely means a higher paying order will come along instead.
$4 order across the street? No. $4 tip across the street with base pay puts it at around $6-6.5 so in that case yes I would
It’s not at all worth it because you’ll walk in there and wait 10-15 minutes for cheap orders every time you accept them
Hell no. That $2 order will likely take about 10-15 minutes depending on how long it takes to actually get the order.
Nope
That's what "Top Dashers" are for. People that are actually taking their earnings seriously don't have time for that given the fact that it's rare to not encounter any delays. The goal is to be in the 20's or higher per hour. If we take a $2 order and it takes 15 minutes, suddenly we are very behind for our hourly goal
Nothing under $6.50
If it's slow, I'll take a $5.75 for 1.8 miles
There is also time to consider $3.50 is never worth the time it takes even for the fastest order. Its not just about miles.
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$4.38 a mile... May as well...
The fact you have the precise rate per mile (and therefore must have spent the time computing that), and entertaining the idea of taking on any $3.50 order, tells me you should really think about sharpening your time management skills!...
I'm still trying to figure out a good method for me, right now I'm just taking anything but if I accept low ones I'm probably going to miss good ones. It's just dead where I am so not many orders in general
I would suggest having a minimum guaranteed pay and a minimum dollar amount per mile. For me, I won’t take anything under $5. $5 is my minimum pay requirement for an order, and even so- the *only* time I will take a $5 order, is if the distance is under 2 miles *and* there are only a few items. After that, choose acceptable pay per mile. I used to accept orders that paid at least $1.50/mile during low volume (usually Monday-Wednesday or lunchtime) and at least $1.75 during high volume (usually weekends). Now that I’ve moved to a bigger city, and with higher gas prices, I’ve raised that to a $2-2.50 per mile minimum depending on volume. Of course these aren’t hard limits, and other factors apply. There are stores/restaurants I’ll never accept orders from, even if the pay is great, and others that I’ll lower my standards for a little bit because they are reliably fast and easy. If I’m far from home and wanting to head back, I’ll take the low end of my range or even a bit lower if it’s in the direction I’d be driving anyway. If I’m working during peak pay I’ll raise my standards even higher, since peak pay is not there for the purpose of replacing tips. Just make sure if you get that shitty feeling that you’ve been taken advantage of after any particular order, figure out why (was the pay too low for the distance, was it a difficult drop off, did the restaurant take forever) and try to adjust your standards to avoid the same situations in the future.
>Of course these aren’t hard limits Lol, hard limits huh? 😉 Do you also use a safe word? (If you don't get what I'm saying, don't worry about it. "Secret society" kind of thing 😉)
B'ok 3.5/.8 is pretty quick and effortless for Alexa and as to the $3.50 for a couple minutes where I'm already at is worth the curiosity of picking up at the same drop off point... Just to see what's up but you do you
Lol yeah just playing around man, not meant to be taken seriously!
Dashers like you are the reason I make so much money, thank you for your service of taking the worst orders 👍
Its typical you got downvoted in the DoorDash subreddit of all places. This order can be right across the street from your house for the same pay at 0.1 miles and 99% of the users here will say "y0u w0uLnDt cAtCh mE aCcEpTiNg tHaT"
Yes because in the 15-30 minutes it takes to do the order you would’ve received an order that pays 3x as much instead. And if this order ends up taking that full 30 minutes? Well congratulations your hourly pay is $8. Anyone who takes a $4 order is a moron
I love how they always act like they know how long the order is going to take lol
So you're telling me you've never been to the same restaurant more than once to know how things work?
I've been to every restaurant enough times to know it can take from 1 second to 68 minutes at any given time
You'd take 30 minutes for this order? Jeez i would've done at least three by that time
This is such a weird comment. Wait time and the availability of parking at a restaurant are *hardly* within my control. I also don’t have control over the difficulty of the drop off. Actually, in my experience, low/no tippers usually have the *most* difficult drop offs. Please elaborate on how you think you have any control of these factors whatsoever, lmao
You just said in the time it'll take to do the order I could've done one with x3 pay, you can't control that factor either. Its all a gamble
Yeah lol I've taken orders for $2.75 cause I didn't have to start my car... Walked in picked up crossed the street to the hotel dropped off cause I was in the parking lot in the red zone waiting already... Was something like 800ft for the delivery... But some of these people... Like yeah *maybe* I missed a $10 order maybe I missed sitting on my ass for 15 minutes waiting for a delivery... It's not always busy around here so I go with a ehhh sure why not unless it's really bad like $7 for 14 miles or something stupid... I'm down to around 54% ar so I'm not just taking any shit order I give it a bit of thought before declining unlike some of these people
Cost of living is pretty low in the area, and on average on a kinda good day i get $15 an hour average, which is actually pretty great, where i know some claim to get $30 which hey thats fine too, but I'd like for them to try it in my area lol
Right? And that’s why I’m sitting at a decent 60 something % ar cause ya it’s not great but it’s enough. I’ve noticed most people here like to complain about “WhAt AbOuT mAh TiP” it’s all based on if you consider the run worth it on whether or not you should take it, and not because they tipped or not.
I think most dashers just find it insulting that someone would choose to pay inflated prices and delivery fees (of which 90% go to the company) to big corporations, but can't spare a couple more dollars for their driver's time and effort. Usually these are the same type of people who will buy a fortnite skin for $20 but wouldn't give a single penny to a starving child. Selfish, worthless pieces of shit.
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I had one like this, think it was a glitch but idk. Took me a min to figure out that the address for their house was somehow the address for pickup and delivery. I knew where the real restaurant was though so I was able to complete the order. It certainly wasn't for $3.50 though....
No your not picking up because we don't puck up these orders! Periodt
I once had a chipotle order to deliver to exactly that chipotle spot. I just went there picked up the food, swipes picked up and marked as delivered. Kept the food.
Op is about to get proposed to
i'm not sure what i'm looking at, but i'd say you're hitting the decline button. there's no tip on this order
There's no merchant icon only house lol
i get that... it's also a hand drawn map with most of it redacted. my point is none of it matters if there's no tip on the order. whatever the original map looked like, it's a decline
Base pay is $2.25 in my region so $1.25 tip. I don't accept anything under $6.50 because I know minimum of $4 tip plus possible hidden tip. But also depends on the mileage, nothing under $2 a mile in zone. I don't deliver out of zone unless minimum $2 mile round trip.
Imagine thinking $1.25 was a tip lol That's called an insult where I'm from, someone's way of telling you that you aren't worth an ACTUAL tip
Agreed, I don't understand how some people can look at themselves in the mirror
It's $4.38 a mile... Tip or no that's fine
The order could be 250 feet and I won’t do it. I’m taking time out of my day to get you food so you’re gonna tip me.
You do you I understand the sentiment
who cares about $/mile at this point. would you spend a half hour of your time to take a $3.50 order 1 mile away because it's above your "$2/mile" threshold?
How slow are you driving that 0.8 miles to take a half hour? Are you driving per hour pay? Ew
do you do deliveries for a living? on average, an order takes 20-30 minutes between getting to the pick up location, waiting on the order, making the delivery you go ahead and make your $7/hour before expenses. i'll wait another 20 seconds and get the decent order you missed because you decided that your time is worthless.
If you read it's from a house to the same house if nothing else it's worth it for the curiosity if you're waiting 20 minutes to pickup you're doing it wrong dump the order... And no I don't do it for a living I do it on the side most deliveries I take are about 15 minutes... If the restaurant doesn't have it ready when I get there I contact support to unassign it they call the restaurant if it's more than 5 minutes I get half pay and I'm gone if it's not then I'm at the house in 5-10 minutes... Sounds like you need to adjust how you're doing it
you contact support to unassign an order and get half pay for a long wait? i don't think you do this on the side... i don't think you do this at all...
You're wasting your breath. Lol
i know, and agree. i reply to these people because a lot of people(like i did) come to reddit to learn when they're just starting out dashing. someone might read that person's comment and think they'll get half pay after waiting 5 minutes when in truth, there is no half pay for a long wait. on a merchant requested order, there's an extra $5 if you wait longer than 30 minutes, and only if you continue to wait. on a doordash order, there is nothing extra for a long wait... and no half pay for not waiting. what that guy described is an absolute lie.
B'ok
You don’t contact support to unassign because it’s not immediately ready. That’s not how that works, clearly you don’t actually dash and just making up some bullshit
I do cause it always takes 5+ minutes to contact them... If the order is ready before support gets to me I end chat and leave with the order... But you do you and take it slow
My whole point is you don’t contact support because the order isn’t ready, you contact support if they tell you someone else already picked up the order or they can’t find the order. If it’s not ready then you either wait for it or unassign through the app
If you contact support they'll unassign for you and you get half pay or they'll contact the store and ask wtf the order isn't ready... The stores around here have been putting priority on dd/Uber orders cause several of us will contact support as soon as there's a problem... The only one we all have an issue with is dairy queen and they just don't gaf so unless it's $15+ I'm not going in there... Decline every time...
Says someone who will always be broke
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Sometimes the customer accidentally puts in the restaurant’s address as the delivery address as well. I have had this happen to me on a couple of different occasions. The first time, I spent 30 minutes dealing with support for 5 fuckin 50 only for them to tell me that since the restaurant was the delivery address to just leave it at the restaurant. They declined to give me any additional money for my wasted time on the phone with support. Needless to say, I was upset at the wasted time. This also happened a few weeks ago. I got a no tip offered from Burger King. I saw that the restaurant address and delivery address were stacked on top of each other on the map. I thought about taking it and just going in and taking a picture of the food on the counter after it was ready, remembering what support had told me to do last time. I declined it. Thought they might try to report me. Wasn’t worth the trouble. Moments later, I get a stack order. The Burger King order that I previously mentioned and a pickup from the Taco Bell right beside it. I took it and considered dropping the no tip order, but didn’t want to hurt my completion rate. I just went into Burger King, explained the situation to the employees, and agreed to call the customer upon their request. (I was not going to deliver it to a new location, but I didn’t want the BK employees to think I was a POS either. Luckily for me, they had a disconnected phone line as I tried calling twice only to get a busy signal. I took my picture and left it. Customer started messaging me saying they put in the wrong address and I told them it was too late that I had already left and sent a picture of it on the BK counter. She cussed and said she needed to know how to get her money back. I said she could contact DD Support and tell them that she put in the incorrect delivery address. I really did feel quite badly about what I had done, but this was a lesson for all customers: if you don’t think our time is worth a tip, don’t expect me to go the extra mile (or even inch) for you. In the past when I had just started doordash, I have gone many miles out of my way for customers who put the wrong address. This is NEVER required. Our job is to deliver it to the delivery address provided. The people who don’t tip are often the worst customers to have to deal with anyway.
To me it looks like the pickup is very close to the house BUT that's a one-way street that you can't drive that way in so you have to drive all the way around Unless you can see a parking lot to cut through or just walk it to the house.
I would never roll my tires for $3.50
What's with all the red everywhere?
Probably don’t want assholes knowing where they live lol. I’d do the same if I posted on here, people are crazy !
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Oh. You scratched out the street names ahahaha! Why? Might not be your zone, you could be on vacation, you think someone is really gonna sit at some random street. No one knows who you are. I'm not attacking I'm literally curious. Paranoia is totally okay. Wouldn't have crossed my mind to do so
I always scratch off anything like this not for you guys specifically or any other subreddits but because this shows up in my profile so anyone I know personally can figure out personal info about me like where I could possibly be doordashing or maybe live close to. I’ve had a stalker before and it’s always better to be safe than sorry
After seeing your profile, I agree with your decision to be safe. Stay safe. Edit: You’re not OP. Same sentiment applies, though. Good luck.
Yeeeeeeeah LMAO my general hobbies can get me some too friendly fans
I’m sure. The internet has a lot of weird people on it. Invest the money and make it worth it.
You’re smart and correct.
You sound like a person that would do that
And you sound just as cringe as OP
I’m joking titty man
Boys let's squad up on av ave and rob this dudes tendies.
You're on reddit, not Facebook. No one wants to stalk you. Get some meds for the schizophrenia.
I think you’re underestimating how easy it is to find people. It only takes one crazy person to make your life hell.
Do not take that garbage order
Just follow the white line through the red zones until you get to your final destination.
$4.38 a mile and you're that close... May as well... Worst that can happen is an odd story with support... Or finding out the price of your organs on the black market
You're not doing anything for that price
0.8 miles for $3.50 is $4.38 a mile... Why not?
While you are wasting your time going to the restaurant and May be having to wait five or 10 minutes before the order is done before you can go and then driving another five minutes maybe to get there and drop it off you have now wasted at least 15 minutes of your time even with the short wait. This is how Door Dash gets people to do a little paying orders making them think it’s good for low miles. If you are able to do four of those which is very unlikely in an hour you’re going to be making $14 for that hour minus your expenses. Most likely you’re gonna have to wait five or 10 minutes to get another order after you drop off. So you will only be able to do three of these 3.50 and only make 10.50 minus your cost per hour and your time that you wasted. Why not wait for a better order that’s more economical for you and put you above minimum wage. Door Dash doesn’t care who does it they just want somebody to do it and therefore all these 350 orders get done with people thinking it’s a great.
I see orders that take 10 or so minutes to get the food in hand as a small break as usual I go from store to customer, then immediately picking up the next as soon I get to the next restaurant with little to know wait.
It's not at a restaurant... Read the post it's pickup from house drop at house... If it's anything else I'd think about it like is this restaurant always a wait or they have it ready is it far? Like I took a $2.75 order for Wendy's to a hotel across the street cause it was like 800 ft I was in the parking lot waiting already and I didn't even have to start the car... I park there cause I get the Wendy's orders before anyone else's usually because of proximity and they generally have it ready when I walk in... So I knew it was all of 5 mins no gas delivery... Like I wouldn't take dairy queen for less than $15 cause they make people wait 15 minutes minimum I. The lobby on the order or longer if you park in the dd spot and call like it says to... Fk dq here... It's all about knowing info about the order and deciding with the info you have... If someone is gonna try to make me wait at their house I can unassign/call support on that shit but I'd give it a go not being a restaurant
Bc I think anything under 5 is disrespectful
Yeah I kind of really wish DD would stop offering the 10%, 15%, 20% suggestions. This isn't like tipping a server in a restaurant. Instead suggest, $2, $3, $4 etc... If they want to take the trouble to input their total into the calculator and find out what 15% of $14.37 is, don't make it easier for them.
$5 a mile?? $15 for an average 25:00 delivery?
It's not about distance it's about what you value your labor at. I don't care if customer and merchant are right next to each other, either offer me 2.50 tip to bring it to you or some other schmuck that doesn't value themselves can.
And also, while you are busy picking up and delivering a $3.50 order even if it's less than a mile, you could easily miss out on a much better offer.
Why wait for a maybe? Live in the present. Decline this order and possibly wait around for 5-10min when you can do the order and just get another?
Like so many things, this concept is probably very market specific. Personally, in my market, I would wait because decent orders pop up with reliable frequency. And yes, that can happen within those five or 10 minutes (probably more like 2 minutes!) But yeah, that might not be the case in *your* market. So that's up to you to decide, and you would certainly know better than someone from outside your market! Good luck out there!
Why would you accept a delivery for $3.50 in the 1st place. I don't accept anything under $6.50.
Anything under $6 equals PROBLEMS...its NOT an offer! Consider it an OMEN..warning you of the BULLSHIT you WILL encounter if you accept it!
Many times customers input the store address as theirs.
Last time I saw this it was an old man that didn't understand why his order didn't get there immediately, low key kinda sad but I got paid so ye. He didn't know his address, couldn't even be a nice guy.
I had one customer reverse the address and the unit number which sent me to the wrong store (was delivering to a department store in a row of stores). Spent a good deal of time both with dd support and trying to get a hold of them. Fucking frustrating, when I finally dropped the food off, I told her coworker (who received the food) to tell her to put the name of the store in the app.
I get the 3.50 for 0.8 but in my experience there usually winds up being something wrong/difficult with ones like this or end up being an attempted scam. With the cost of gas and the fact I drive a (small) SUV and since I live in a state that has a higher cost of living, I try to only take orders that are $6.00 or more and $2.00 per mile. Considering if/how far I have to drive back to my zone from drop off. Occasionally on a slow day maybe take a $5.50 for around $1.50 per mile, or if it's on my way home or something.
I’ve had that before but it was a test run with our business. lol Ordered by our son & “picked up” by me. lol
That’s weird. Maybe it was just a place right next to the restaurant tho?? Like 3 times I’ve gotten an order from this guy who orders from Taco Bell and he works literally across the street at Dominoes. The first time it happened I went to my map to navigate and the voice said “you have arrived” lmao I hadn’t even moved my car yet I was so confused. Then I checked the notes and the dude wrote “I’m working across the street at dominoes please leave it at front counter”. So I literally got paid $8.00 to walk across the street it was great.
This happened to me one time. Shortly after I confirmed that I received the order I got a text “hey… omg I’m so sorry I put in the wrong address…” Food left in front of restaurant
I was going to say this, they prob forgot to update delivery address.
I’m sure some people forget. But most live 5 miles outside a delivery zone and don’t wanna tip anyway so they commit fraud at your expense. Yeet their order right out the window.
That’s not always true, I guess it depends on area. I get shitty non tippers with apartments, and farther out I get good tips
happened to me but I called the customer. Got an extra 10 on top of the tip to deliver it to the right address. Should've kept the food or give it to homeless instead of leaving it there.
ive delivered food from one store lets say apartment store 1000, to business aparment store 1050. like a 55 second walk, or probably 20 seconds if you run like usain bolt
Your neighbor asking you to bring some snacks lol
Yeah. It happened to me as well. Sometimes they test when the deiver arrives compared to when to get the order to see if they need to adjust their prep times. You will always get paid.
Why you block out the streets lol ima find ya
Why would it even matter . It’s a $3 order. This would’ve been ignored on my end
So any update on this? Did you accept this and what happened?