r/DoorDashDrivers

Just kept a human dasher support agent on the phone for half an hour. Asked him to document everything I said, fully unhinged, even though I already know it’s recorded. Told him I’ve had it, and to deactivate me. The new ‘flash offer’- i have it shut off, triple checked that, and it’s still blasting my phone and waking me up in the middle of the night with those loud DINGGGS!!! We all know. App freezing. Orders disappearing. Gps sending us up one way streets the wrong way. Accept an offer for .5 miles, suddenly it’s 5 miles???? The app is a mess. I don’t even have time to state every issue. And it’s nationwide. Their stock price is plummeting. I truly believe the company is trying to tank and file bankruptcy. Nothing else makes sense. I have thousands of deliveries and almost as perfect ratings as anyone could have. Protect yourselves and document everything.

I’m convinced the recent surge in trash orders isn’t due to cheap customers, but DD SIPHONING EVEN MORE OF OUR $$$$ lately.

Case in point:

Tonight I accepted a 7 mile for $9.00 (sadly as good as it gets lately) offer. Picked the order up but due to a freeway closure couldn’t deliver it in a timely manner. I explained this to tech support, who decided to cancel the order. In return, I’d receive 50% pay for my troubles.

The 50% pay I received was………$8.38, not $4.50!!! The $9.00 offer should’ve been $16.76, in other words. 😩

If you’re wondering why your earnings have dropped 40-50% this week, this is probably why. It would also explain the $1.00 tips from noted good tippers, and deliveries to wealthy neighborhoods known for high paying offers suddenly morphing into meccas of (even more) lowball offers. It’s not the gas. It’s not the war. It isn’t even the cheap customers, but DD greed.

Thought I was dreaming, I drove all day yesterday until 9 pm, went home ate and crashed

Then at 145 am I hear a bunch of knocks on the door and someone saying door dash ?

Went to the door and a night crawler had a bag of Taco Bell and a large Baja blast, I said hey i didn’t order anything and I’m a dasher to, can I see your phone ? Sure as shit he had the right address

I suggested dropping it in front of my house letters and getting a picture then getting paid, I was thirsty and would have gulped down the drink !! He’s like let me call the customer so I wait , turns out the guy put in north instead of south road and he was 10 miles away , I live in a main highway 🤣🤣I asked him how much it was $5 and off he went I’d say total round trip from Taco Bell to the correct destination 30 miles

What would have you done ?

With gas prices the way they are, I’ve been declining the majority of $6 offers. The last month or so I’ve been looking at all the $4 offers as the new no tip offers… $5 offers as the new $1/$2 tip offers.. and unless it’s like $6.75 for only a couple miles round trip, I’m gonna decline those alllll day too. If DD is gonna continue offering this same $2 shitty base pay with gas prices over $4/gallon now, then it’s on the customers to tip more. And if they don’t want to, then have fun waiting two hours for your food to get to your door after every dasher in the area has declined it 5 times already and DD finally ups the base pay to where it’s profitable to take.

but have the offers been ridiculously low this week?

I habitually do between 25 to 35 an hour with strategic accepting (cherry picking as they say) to avoid taking the $1 / mi orders unless nothing else is coming up i usually aim for the $1.5 or $2

these past three days I could barely muster up the effort to keep driving when Im being sent 4-5 mi , $6-7 dollar offers 🙃

im Platinum (like that even matters) and its been a grind just to get $20/hr.

a Hella lot of stacks as well with no tippers, again I use the $ per mi idea, so it doesnt bug me as I can decline all day if the bottom line doesnt work for me but just seems really off this week

I was talking to another Dasher the other day about places we don't like to pick up from and he named a Chinese place because "It takes forever to get it". And when I told him that it usually don't have to stand there long unless it is really busy he told me "Well I go through the drive thru."

Every time I'm there the drive thru is at least six cars long vs at most two people inside waiting. Normally I'm the only one waiting at the pick up shelf.

Been a lot of fiery rhetoric on the subs lately about strikes and corporate greed and Dasher sloth and general lamentations about the state of things. I think there are some things a lot of us are missing.

Pretty much everything varies by market. This is not news, right? Lots of people say that. But I think it’s deeper than people usually think about. Suggested tips, customer affluence and generosity, population density, square mileage, traffic patterns, gas prices, market saturation, restaurant quality, hell, even cultural differences can impact what you make. The algorithm responds to market conditions, so no two algorithms are the same either. Those of us in good markets might as well be working for a different company than people in bad markets. I look at some of these terrible orders and I’m stunned. I get maybe two orders under five dollars in a six-hour shift these days. I don’t see much under $1.50 a mile either. With gas prices as they are, I really try to go for $2 these days … and I usually get it. I bitch about non-tippers like everybody else, but to be honest, we don’t even have that many of those here, at least right now.

So everybody is living in a different reality. I’m not talking about two different realities, good markets and bad. I’m talking about probably one hundred different realities across the country. No two markets are exactly alike, so no one strategy is the silver bullet. But people can’t accept that. And I get why! If it’s not your reality, and the difference is stark, you think the person you’re talking to is lying, either to you if they say it’s bad or to themselves if they say it’s good.

On top of all of this, what nobody seems to bear in mind is that any and all of these variables can change, over time or at the drop of a hat. Things are good in my market right now and we’ve had more good months than bad the last five years, but November was dry as fuck. I was making $5 an hour. I almost quit. December was better, by January things were back to normal, and now it’s as good as it’s ever been…

But maybe only if you’re Platinum!

I don’t know because it’s been a year since I’ve dipped below Platinum. It is entirely possible that other Dashers in my market are having a completely different experience than I am. Then there are markets where Platinum drivers get screwed and it’s the cherry pickers that are on top. In some markets, the EBT people are probably doing better than anybody. And I’m sure there are many, many markets that suck no matter what your strategy is.

What I’m saying is we need to stop basing our expectations on what people on the subreddit say. A Dasher in the suburbs of Atlanta is going to have a fundamentally different experience from a Dasher in New York City from a Dasher in rural Washington. That means that this subreddit is functionally good for nothing, not even support, if we don’t accept that other Dashers are telling the truth about their circumstances. I get that people are generally angry and scornful, and contemptuous of Dashers they think are lazy and envious of Dashers they think are bragging. None of that helps anybody though. All I know is Uncle Tony makes a profit either way.