u/UberDDBurner

Although the customers & restaurants (as well as the UI) are much more tedious, UE it has been on fire the past few days. Even GrubHub, believe it or not, has been more lucrative.

Meanwhile, I barely get 2 or 3 decent orders and can only earn $15-$20 at most on DoorDash after being online 8 hours. For context, my minimum is $2/mile and I don't do stacks or shopping orders.

Things would be a complete bust for me if I weren't multi-apping and only relied on DD.

(never mind the fact that the app has also been wonky for me, as I've been having to frequently force stop the app and re-open it just to review offers).

How is it going for everyone else?

https://preview.redd.it/agmw4l8n240h1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65dec4a4e478ec1230b4ce89ef8b9f2d58c3ae47

^^^For context, the offer was only ~$13 to drive ~30 miles one way. No matter how many times I rejected it, GH would send it right back to me until it finally stopped after 1/2 hour.

Apparently, this place sells custom-made bouquets starting at a minimum of $50 (majority of them go for well over $100)...🫠

I do wonder if this order was ever delivered and (if so) who was the sucker (driver) to deliver it, lol...

Now, I will preface this by saying that I cherry pick like a MFer (I only take $2/mile or larger orders that are no more than 5 miles in distances) and refuse to do stacked orders.

That being said, after 8 hours online for the first time and multi-apping on 3 apps (DD, UE and GH), I only manage to earn a whopping $150. While not terrible, I can't quite say it was worth the squeeze either. There were days last month after I could get $100+ in 4 hours during the dinner rush.

Hopefully, it gets better...

I applied a little over 1 month ago (end of March) and got the notification today that there were limited spots available. I'm just waiting for my background check to go through now.

I'm already doing DD and UE, so it will be nice to now have GH as an option too...

There's a litany of complaints about how awful DoorDash is, especially since their app has been experiencing systemwide crashes this week.

But this thread is just a reminder that things could be so much worse:

1. ALL tips are guaranteed, unlike with UberEats where customers can bait you then take back their tip for the most ridiculous reasons after their food's been delivered.
2. You get paid immediately, whereas with UberEats, you have to wait over an hour for "processing" (even for orders where the tips are guaranteed).
3. The order notifications are much more user friendly. You simply hear your phone vibrate and get a text message with the request, versus the annoying box that spontanuously pops up on your phone's main screen (along with that chime from hell) whenever a request comes through on UberEats.
4. There's no "trip radar" where you have to jump on offers hunger games style that go out to all drivers at the same time. They give you a good 30+ seconds to decide whether to accept or reject.
5. You can actually cancel orders that are taking too long without being penalized (and you're given a fair amount of discretion for deciding this), unlike with UberEats.
6. Although I'm a cherry picker (thus this doesn't really affect me personally so much), as far as I'm aware, DoorDash still offers the options of guaranteed hourly pay unlike UberEats which has just ended this perk in most markets.
7. DoorDash will generally not send you offers that take you out of your actual zone (and if it does, it's no more than a few miles), unlike UberEats which will shamelessly send you requests for a $2 order that's 20 miles away.