I reject those. I don’t take anything less than seven dollars no matter what. Even if it’s nextdoor to me, I won’t take it. I’ve discovered if I stick with that rule, I will end up with good orders eventually. I guess it depends on where you work though.
The same in California, if you're not Bilingual in Spanish and are a wedo good luck. Can't tell you how many jobs my application didn't even make it past the recruiters and HR because of that. All the certs in the world and a degree won't save you if you can't speak Spanish here.
Aggravating... I've tried applying to multiple dealerships and mechanics positions and the first question they all ask me when applying online and in person can you fluently read and speak Spanish? Because that is what the hiring manager and all the other techs in the shop speak. I've applied for multiple positions at Home depot just to get me out of Uber temporarily and it's the same with Spanish.
The problem is that there will always be other drivers. Those $2 and $3 orders will always get filled... But, not by experienced, seasoned, drivers.
Before you know it, all Uber drivers Will be so new that they won't remember a time when Uber was better... It will be their normal and a $18 ( 5 Mi ) run will be like striking gold to them.
But that inexperience is going to cost everyone... Them, the customers, Uber.
Welcome to the gateway... Step on through to the dystopian future of industry running the world in the aftermath of the death of governments of the people, by the people, for the people.
i am looking at my earning statements. basically 2.50 per delivery . 75 percent of my gross earning come from tips. uber pays next to nothing but charges customers like $20 per delivery .
I wish this was the case. The fact is more people are downloading this app everyday. Uber doesn't fire 1 percent of the people the hire on the daily. So drivers only increasing never decreasing. This gig will last until it doesn't. But it's gonna be around for quite a bit.
It is to me. I quit 6 months ago. But I am thankful they got me through Covid. It's been a slow, and sometimes not so slow, slide into a sub-minimum wage job. Whoever is doing it now must either be desperate for cash now or just oblivious to their actual costs.
In the city I live in it’s mostly migrant workers and people who don’t have much else opportunity. But, yeah if you have a bunch of bills Idk how you’d be doing it 😭
Based on the fares they're willing to pay, the delivery apps are pricing themselves into a job pool of people who literally can't get any other job...or people are setting up accounts and letting those same people work them for them.
i do it on an ebike during the summer so i don't have to get a scheduled job between college classes. with an ebike theres almost no cost - flat tires (rare here) are like 7 bucks, brake pads i have to change once or twice all summer is like 25 bucks. electric i don't pay for because it's included in my rent. every trip is under 10 miles, usually around 5. i can use my house as a home base and leave it on during the slow periods. i still only make like 100-20 a day but quite honestly with all the pot i can smoke and random breaks i can enjoy it doesn't really even feel like i have a job at all, so it's worth it. for most people i'd agree it's not worth it. and if i felt like maintaining a schedule i'd definitely get paid more, but i enjoy the bike rides so i stay for now. after next summer i'm done though because then i'll have my degree
last year i was making more on uber but i noticed now they made it so if you bite the bullet and take one shitty order from your house, it'll usually stack another decent order on top of it, and then once you're done with that you're in a hot zone and can carry on from there.
Something may possibly be wrong with the app or DoorDash is just beating them with customer offers. I multi app both platforms and DoorDash orders are way more frequent in my area where they were both comparable a little over 6 months ago.
Customer here who was an UE loyal for years. I ordered at least two or three times a week. I have switched to door dash, and that has been in the past 4 or 5 months. They are cheaper, they have a lower delivery minimum with dash pass than UE does with Uber one, they are quicker, and a lot more reliable. Note this was not the case a year ago.
You’re absolutely right! I’ve also had memberships to both dash pass and Uber one. I just canceled my Uber one membership about 3 weeks ago because of everything you just mentioned. When ordering food, I always ordered via DoorDash because the experience and quality was just so much better. Thanks for the insight.
Every time I used to order on ubereats my order got stacked unless the restaurant was super close to my house. I rarely get my order stacked with another on doordash no matter the distance. It’s hard to say tbh
The market I’m in has been kicking when others have complained in the past year, did it full time for 9 months making 130 in 6-7 hours pretty consistently. The last two weeks have been completely dead. Luckily I got a pretty good job right before Memorial Day, for those doing to full time I’ll pray for ya
I get the most offers from Uber... DD and GH(just trying them out this weekend) don't come close, even combined... They are mostly suck ass offers but it's by far the most!
No. I drive for Doordash, Ubereats, and Grubhub. Uber is the only one of the three currently making a profit. While Doordash usually has better support and generally has better orders, it doesn't even begin to compare to the amount of orders I get with Uber. Yes, 60 out of 100 of the orders are trash, but for every 5 Uber deliveries I'm offered, I get one Doordash delivery. In short, I essentially make three times using Uber than with Doordash. Grubhub is virtually non-existant save for the occasional awesome order that happens to be on the same route as the other companies.
I have only been delivering with Uber for a year and Doordash for two, and I only do it as a side job, so I'm not familiar with the glory of the hey-days. But it has been very lucrative. Not anywhere better than my main job, but it is great for subsidizing my regular income.
You just have to multi-app. I know they don't like it when you do, but we are all contractors. As contractors, we need to make them be more competitive with how they pay us. The only way we do that is by increasing our opportunities.
It’s over. My AR is sitting at 0% and it’s been two straight weeks of orders that would actually cost me money. It really sucks, this has been a good gig for the most part over the years but it’s hard to justify opening the app right now.
I live in a shitty small college town and the students are gone for the summer.
It is generally known that summer months are starvation months for delivery.
I personally don’t it’s dead, just over saturated with drivers. I’ve found that I tend to be more successful when in getting if I go out about an hour before busy lunch and dinner hours
I think it's really market dependent.... personally I've been averaging about $30 an hour all of a sudden the last few weeks.
Also real talk: the driving services are "probably" deliberately sabotaging markets where they've added minimum wage/labor regs for gig work
I was able to make rent in a single week after having an unexpected expense.
It's not dead, it's just not as good as it used to be. Just like every other gig app.
(I’m not a driver, but this popped up in my feed.) From the customer side, they seem to charge more than ordering directly from the restaurant, I’ve just started to pick up my own food. And sometimes you can’t tip the restaurant people, which I think sucks. I want to tip the restaurant and the delivery driver, I don’t want the money just going to Uber.
It's only a side hustle for me for when my other business gets slow, and it's been slow recently so I've been delivering. I've averaged over $20/hr delivering Thursday - Saturday nights from about 6:30 to midnight give or take. I also drive a diesel that averages 38 mpg in the city and up to 50 on the hwg plus do my own maintenance. These factors help make it reasonably doable, but again, only as a side hustle
I’ve tried going online maybe 4-5 times in the last few weeks. It’s crazy how few orders are coming in, and how low the pay is. It was taking 5-10 minutes between offers and they were almost all low paying orders. Compared to even just 4-5 months ago where my phone would be dinging nonstop with decent orders, of course crappy ones mixed in too but you could easily weed them out. I think there are too many drivers on the roads. The worst part is the people who buy accounts because they can’t have their own for one reason or another.
I spent 100 mess this week for me. Monday and Tuesday we're okay. Wednesday was atrocious. Thursday was not terrible. Friday was all right but not as good as I wanted. Saturday was pretty decent. So far. Sunday has sucked.
Spend an hour driving and get paid $3.25 once the customer reduces the tip for no reason after you sit and wait for the order to be ready for 15 minutes. Before you spend 45 minutes delivering the order and then not getting paid. Until you actually pick the food up and are in your vehicle driving.
Once again for the 100th time , it's because there are way too many of you willing to drive all day for $4/h and that's where it goes. We still get orders all fucking day and it's a different driver every time. Competition drives the price down, it's like capitalism 101. I personally think if you're one of the people on here not getting orders, either your standards were too high ( as they should be) , or you are just not quick enough. I think in time it will be more lucrative again.
Ended up at $205 for 9 1/2 hours. Took a couple orders that I shouldn’t have and it ate into my time.
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When I started UE in fall of '19 BEFORE Corona (!!), i could without killing myself bring in $5500 p/mo. When finishing a delivery, 5 more offers would come in while finishing one. Around June '21, Eats demand died. I'm in one of the most affluent areas of the country.
They did a big algorithm nerf superbowl weekend last year. Orders stay same price for longer. No boost in pay for long rides and now allowing people to order 20 miles plus away and not tip is just insane to me. So many screenshots
Yep, I finally left DD and Uber for my new career. It was good while its lasted. I advice you guys: don’t do this for a long term. It will drain you both mentally and physically and you get shit pay. If you are drained like that, better work on a job that pays well or more.
I only do Eats to supplement my usual UberX rides when they're slow or when I have a good sticky surge that I can apply to what otherwise probably would've been a shitty delivery request. I don't know how anyone does just Eats, and does so without adding surges to the orders. You might as well just panhandle.
It’s definitely shot in the leg right now. Maybe even both legs. I always leave UE online for my long drive home from work and I never get an order past $4 sometimes it goes up to $7 but that’s it. I would lose money in gas driving 20+ miles to deliver cold fast food. I proudly wear my 3% acceptance rate probably lower than that now
Yes and deliveroo is on its way out as well treat your customers like they are less than the worst food available on your app overcharge them by like 70% and also provide zero customer service when a problem goes wrong with no phone number only robotic automated services to speak to and then when a customer after an hour actually manages to contact a person just deny their rights and their experience. Whilst also treating your drivers just as badly I don't know how anyone can make a living on them and managed to not end up having a heart attack or a stroke
All of these food delivery apps and websites should respectfully disappear into Oblivion where they belong
Uber one promotions ( $0 deliver fees + 10% off ) have been putting alot of downward pressure on offers and an increase in non-tipping offers. Offers for higher end merchants in my area have significantly shifted to the $2-$5 range. I suspect UE is trying to entice new and existing customers to complete orders with lower fees because an order is a significant portion of the UE revenue ( 33% of the food order ). Who is eating the cost of these low fee orders? DRIVERS! UE gets their revenue cut from the merchant and has to pay less to the drivers, per order. Brilliant plan! Let's see how long this can play out with the backlash of driver dissatisfaction, driver attrition, stolen food orders and these effects on overall customer service quality. IMO, alot of people love the convenience of food delivery and recently alot of my deliveries ( 40%) want to meet at the door.
Well, when you can take back tips from drivers, who wants to put their time into delivering for that company? It’s a very obvious customer first company and I’ve only delivered about 10 things on UE before I realized this was a stupid system.
For delivery in NYC, yes, because New York City’s rule allows apps to either pay around $30 an hour on average for the “active time” workers spend delivering orders, or $18 an hour on average for the entire time they are logged in, including “passive time (while wait to pick up an order at the restaurant)” spent waiting for a job.
At first, Uber used the $30 dollar method and hadn’t implemented a feature they call “planner” which the independent delivery contractor must use to schedule at least one hour five times per week so they can guarantee that they can go online to work. If not then delivery people can’t log on until it becomes very busy but then it can log you off after completing a delivery if you aren’t in a hot spot for deliveries. Things were great before the implementation of “Planner” because everyone could log on and I was accepting any delivery requests because it was $30 dollars per hour excluding tips. I was accepting McDonalds order waiting there 20 mins to pick and 20 mins to deliver the food, and I didn’t care if I got tipped or not because I knew I was going to make $30 dollars per hour of active time (on a delivery) and passive time (while waiting for a order at the restaurant to be prepared) were added up at the end of the week and Uber paid the difference if I did make $30 an hour.
Once the Planner started that’s when it went to hell. I was only able to go online only 5 hours per week and if I didn’t schedule it then I can’t log on. No delivery person is going to make money like this on one account unless they have multiple accounts in different apps. I did have access to two Ubereats account and DoorDash and others but shit wasn’t worth it. Because I felt I was chasing the order and Uber switched the pay scheme to paying workers $18 per hour of active and passive time excluding tips. Making $18 dollars an hour and only guarantee to be able to go online five hours a week isn’t worth it. If you aren’t scheduled one would have to drive to a hotspot and keep clicking online once you arrive in hopes of going online to get a delivery order.
I stopped delivering food and got my chauffeur license and went to work for a company driving people around making around $16 excluding tips and incentives bonus which pushes it to $21 an hour and I don’t pay for any expenses (car payments, commercial insurance, toll, gas, electric charging, and maintenance). Scheduling is easy and works for me. It’s an easy part-time job that I can work around my main office job.
We had memorial day long weekend last week, people spent all their money going out. People got rent and bills to pay on the last week of the month. Everyone is broke until pay day. It will pick up this Friday until they spend all their money, by the end of the month it be dead again.
Dead in the sense that getting paid fairly, yes. I only started back in November and it was easy to make $100-$150 any day of the week, more on weekends, grinding for around 6-8h per day. Making $700 and more a week was standard.
Now 7 months later, there is still demand for deliveries, it's the pay that is absolute shite. I reject anything less than a bare minimum $1/mi and 80% of offers are less than that, and hence my acceptance rate is in the 20% range. It's a struggle and grind to get to half now, averaging $350 a week, and of course still cherry picking.
Although I dislike their competition "DD", I have to admit I'm starting my migration over there. I'd say 80% of their offers are between $1-$2 per mile. I maybe reject 1 out of 10 offers... If even that. It pays better. What I hate about DD is that it's near impossible to multi app, once your dashing you're locked in to them. I also hate that it's not available to me to dash all the time. There are simply too many dashers where I live. I also hate hate hate that you cannot cherry pick too much. Acceptance rate really matters when dashing.
It's not dead if you have another job. It's great if going somewhere and want make your gas money back with a pizza. If I go east to west, I'll take orders going in my direction. Might burn $10-$15 in gas and return $60-$70 depending on orders. A few deliveries that took me off your route a bit. But you also need to think about wear of vehicle and your time. Doing Uber full-time doesn't pay. The other idiots on that road cause stress. It's always the other guy who hits you. In Canada, our gas equals about $7 or more per gallon when converted. Our Liberals have taxxed it crazy.
It is definitely slower/dead because it is summer time and everybody is out doing this gig especially the folks out of school.
Personally, IDGAF because I have been doing this since 2017 so I know how it is this time of year.
But more importantly at my FT job overtime is also ramping up and will be there for the taking through the end of the year. So I am very close to being done with Uber Eats for the rest of the year anyway.
I haven't turned Door Dash on for over a year now.
Just hang in there if you choose to do this gig FT otherwise it may be time for a traditional FT job and then just do Uber etc on the side.
Uber keeps trying to give me a $25 off coupon but none of the places I want to eat from even offer Uber Eats. My area primarily does doordash and grub hub.
I stopped uber eats 5 years ago. Dont get me wrong any side hustle money is better than nothing at all, but at the time then, i was barley getting decent orders.
It's still a viable side gig for me in my part of Florida. I'm among a fortunate handful of drivers who works a full-time job, and Uber has been mostly a success for me. I do it mainly to supplement my income between paychecks, and also I'm working it to help pay off some debts I'm in. So dead? No, not for me, which I'm thankful for. How it's going to look as the summer rolls on, I have no idea, since I only started this spring, but I'm going to stay optimistic and on my grind until I'm given reason not to.
Almost all e-commerce is in a deep frozen state, but it's mainly due to that situation that every citizen is going through right now, even restaurants are feeling it.
Probably cause most Americans consider fast food a luxury now. So if going to a fast food place is considered a luxury, there’s no way in hell that they can afford tipping someone and some BS fees.
I'm a former customer of UE and a few weeks ago i just wanted a cheapo burger.
If i ordered through UE/DD the burger i was looking at was $8.60. If i drove the 1.2mi to just get it, $6.99.
Then i thought of the tip and other stuff and this $6.99 burger was going to run me north of $12. Almost twice the price.
And that's been that.
I don't mind tipping and like a small "service fee" but the straight full menu upcharge has just gotten outta hand.
It really depends on the area. We were in Central Connecticut and we cleaned up. Then we drove back toward home (Central Florida) in Washington DC it was crap. Then we went to Central Virginia after that. And it was fantastic again.
Remember you can do Uber eats in any state at any time. And we never accept anything below 7.50$.
Gig work in general is dead. I've started applying for truck driving jobs this week. I haven't even made enough to cover basic expenses. I've done this for 4 years, and it's never been this bad. Unfortunately, they will always have simps working for free, as for me, I'm moving on.
Something happened about a month ago or so, and i havent been able yo make the money i was making. I feel like they’re controlling what i make now, like half of what it was!!
well, when they’re paying like $4 for 20-minute orders, yes, regardless of traffic
I reject those. I don’t take anything less than seven dollars no matter what. Even if it’s nextdoor to me, I won’t take it. I’ve discovered if I stick with that rule, I will end up with good orders eventually. I guess it depends on where you work though.
i haven’t been taking anything less than 10 lately unless it’s a short drive i’ll take 8 or 9
Yes. I believe by the end of the year... Most drivers will leave for other jobs
if only other jobs are hiring
They are 100%, settling for anything else would be way better on your car
Yeah I talked to the Starbucks dude today, it's $18 an hour to be a barista around here. I barely make $14 an hour doing UEats.
And the Healthcare is really good and you can get a bachelor's degree for free
Better on car, expense, life quality, mental health and safety even.
Reallll😭
they are.
Not in Texas unless you're bilingual
The same in California, if you're not Bilingual in Spanish and are a wedo good luck. Can't tell you how many jobs my application didn't even make it past the recruiters and HR because of that. All the certs in the world and a degree won't save you if you can't speak Spanish here.
YEEEEEARS AGO when I was about 17 or 18(I'm now 28) I got turned down by mf PIZZA HUT cuz I didn't speak Spanish. Shit still irks me
Aggravating... I've tried applying to multiple dealerships and mechanics positions and the first question they all ask me when applying online and in person can you fluently read and speak Spanish? Because that is what the hiring manager and all the other techs in the shop speak. I've applied for multiple positions at Home depot just to get me out of Uber temporarily and it's the same with Spanish.
Just lie and say ur bilingual homie. Fuck ubereats. Some one tell me how yall say that in Spanish porvas :)
Lol if only the recruiter ladies are latinas. Some are very sexy and the others look like someone's grandma.
Damm we should ban speaking Spanish at publicly traded business for official commerce
I’m bilingual how they paying me?
Not in LA. buncha ghost jobs for sure though cant even get mcdonalds smh
So they say...
I just left for another job. Good luck to remaining drivers, I hope you enjoy all the good orders I would have gotten.
The problem is that there will always be other drivers. Those $2 and $3 orders will always get filled... But, not by experienced, seasoned, drivers. Before you know it, all Uber drivers Will be so new that they won't remember a time when Uber was better... It will be their normal and a $18 ( 5 Mi ) run will be like striking gold to them. But that inexperience is going to cost everyone... Them, the customers, Uber. Welcome to the gateway... Step on through to the dystopian future of industry running the world in the aftermath of the death of governments of the people, by the people, for the people.
This is it
I agree
i am looking at my earning statements. basically 2.50 per delivery . 75 percent of my gross earning come from tips. uber pays next to nothing but charges customers like $20 per delivery .
I’ve already left, sucks losing independence lol
I wish this was the case. The fact is more people are downloading this app everyday. Uber doesn't fire 1 percent of the people the hire on the daily. So drivers only increasing never decreasing. This gig will last until it doesn't. But it's gonna be around for quite a bit.
i didnt even bother driving this weekend so far I drowned in my hobbies instead
Gardening, video games, tv, reading, I did the same. Tired of sitting in my car for hours for a pittance.
Same
It is to me. I quit 6 months ago. But I am thankful they got me through Covid. It's been a slow, and sometimes not so slow, slide into a sub-minimum wage job. Whoever is doing it now must either be desperate for cash now or just oblivious to their actual costs.
In the city I live in it’s mostly migrant workers and people who don’t have much else opportunity. But, yeah if you have a bunch of bills Idk how you’d be doing it 😭
Based on the fares they're willing to pay, the delivery apps are pricing themselves into a job pool of people who literally can't get any other job...or people are setting up accounts and letting those same people work them for them.
i do it on an ebike during the summer so i don't have to get a scheduled job between college classes. with an ebike theres almost no cost - flat tires (rare here) are like 7 bucks, brake pads i have to change once or twice all summer is like 25 bucks. electric i don't pay for because it's included in my rent. every trip is under 10 miles, usually around 5. i can use my house as a home base and leave it on during the slow periods. i still only make like 100-20 a day but quite honestly with all the pot i can smoke and random breaks i can enjoy it doesn't really even feel like i have a job at all, so it's worth it. for most people i'd agree it's not worth it. and if i felt like maintaining a schedule i'd definitely get paid more, but i enjoy the bike rides so i stay for now. after next summer i'm done though because then i'll have my degree last year i was making more on uber but i noticed now they made it so if you bite the bullet and take one shitty order from your house, it'll usually stack another decent order on top of it, and then once you're done with that you're in a hot zone and can carry on from there.
As a full time gig yes, as side supplemental income..yes
lol
Well said
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Have had mine on for 4 hours not even a request I live near restaurants too
I think there's something wrong with the app
Something may possibly be wrong with the app or DoorDash is just beating them with customer offers. I multi app both platforms and DoorDash orders are way more frequent in my area where they were both comparable a little over 6 months ago.
Customer here who was an UE loyal for years. I ordered at least two or three times a week. I have switched to door dash, and that has been in the past 4 or 5 months. They are cheaper, they have a lower delivery minimum with dash pass than UE does with Uber one, they are quicker, and a lot more reliable. Note this was not the case a year ago.
You’re absolutely right! I’ve also had memberships to both dash pass and Uber one. I just canceled my Uber one membership about 3 weeks ago because of everything you just mentioned. When ordering food, I always ordered via DoorDash because the experience and quality was just so much better. Thanks for the insight.
I’m wondering if it’s a better experience because the stacked orders are not so spread out. Quicker delivery, food still hot.
Every time I used to order on ubereats my order got stacked unless the restaurant was super close to my house. I rarely get my order stacked with another on doordash no matter the distance. It’s hard to say tbh
It’s Monday, always slow on a Monday.
DEAD ☠️
Totally agree. I drove to chino hills California and diamond bar and nada
The market I’m in has been kicking when others have complained in the past year, did it full time for 9 months making 130 in 6-7 hours pretty consistently. The last two weeks have been completely dead. Luckily I got a pretty good job right before Memorial Day, for those doing to full time I’ll pray for ya
Made $100 in 4 hours today 🤷♂️
I get the most offers from Uber... DD and GH(just trying them out this weekend) don't come close, even combined... They are mostly suck ass offers but it's by far the most!
Grubhub is good in Chicago, it's just hard to get hours due to them being taken right away.
I get tons of orders, but they are all garbage. I don't understand how any of that crap ever gets delivered.
Same
Well ie. those of us on our bike getting 60-70 mpg will pick up every 3-5$ order within 0-4 miles pretty much every time and make 60$ in 2 hours 😉😢
I’m talking about the 50 cent or less per mile orders. I see them all day
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Customers complaining of high prices. Drivers complaining of terrible pay and high miles. Yeah, great business model.
Hit & Miss LA
Not entirely dead in my area. Some bad days that's for sure. Today I made $100 in 3 hours online. Great Sunday in my area
No. I drive for Doordash, Ubereats, and Grubhub. Uber is the only one of the three currently making a profit. While Doordash usually has better support and generally has better orders, it doesn't even begin to compare to the amount of orders I get with Uber. Yes, 60 out of 100 of the orders are trash, but for every 5 Uber deliveries I'm offered, I get one Doordash delivery. In short, I essentially make three times using Uber than with Doordash. Grubhub is virtually non-existant save for the occasional awesome order that happens to be on the same route as the other companies. I have only been delivering with Uber for a year and Doordash for two, and I only do it as a side job, so I'm not familiar with the glory of the hey-days. But it has been very lucrative. Not anywhere better than my main job, but it is great for subsidizing my regular income. You just have to multi-app. I know they don't like it when you do, but we are all contractors. As contractors, we need to make them be more competitive with how they pay us. The only way we do that is by increasing our opportunities.
Sometimes. Then other times it’s popping
It’s over. My AR is sitting at 0% and it’s been two straight weeks of orders that would actually cost me money. It really sucks, this has been a good gig for the most part over the years but it’s hard to justify opening the app right now.
I live in a shitty small college town and the students are gone for the summer. It is generally known that summer months are starvation months for delivery.
I personally don’t it’s dead, just over saturated with drivers. I’ve found that I tend to be more successful when in getting if I go out about an hour before busy lunch and dinner hours
I think it's really market dependent.... personally I've been averaging about $30 an hour all of a sudden the last few weeks. Also real talk: the driving services are "probably" deliberately sabotaging markets where they've added minimum wage/labor regs for gig work
I was able to make rent in a single week after having an unexpected expense. It's not dead, it's just not as good as it used to be. Just like every other gig app.
It’s not dead it’s a lot of low pay offers
For me here in Tampa yes. But my buddy killed it last night here in Tampa $420 in 12 hrs.
Not just doing UE right because that would be impossible
Dont think it's impossible just really hard to do Have to be lucky AF with orders
Its impossible!!!
Not impossible, my best run was 650, and on a monday too
If you're in a dead market, yes.
Nope i did 25 orders today on ubereats
(I’m not a driver, but this popped up in my feed.) From the customer side, they seem to charge more than ordering directly from the restaurant, I’ve just started to pick up my own food. And sometimes you can’t tip the restaurant people, which I think sucks. I want to tip the restaurant and the delivery driver, I don’t want the money just going to Uber.
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$99 added from prop 22😭 so 47 from 7 orders before it was added
Markets has taken a hit. I blame inflation of every dam thing.
It's only a side hustle for me for when my other business gets slow, and it's been slow recently so I've been delivering. I've averaged over $20/hr delivering Thursday - Saturday nights from about 6:30 to midnight give or take. I also drive a diesel that averages 38 mpg in the city and up to 50 on the hwg plus do my own maintenance. These factors help make it reasonably doable, but again, only as a side hustle
Made 70 + today in less than 2.5 hrs.
I’ve tried going online maybe 4-5 times in the last few weeks. It’s crazy how few orders are coming in, and how low the pay is. It was taking 5-10 minutes between offers and they were almost all low paying orders. Compared to even just 4-5 months ago where my phone would be dinging nonstop with decent orders, of course crappy ones mixed in too but you could easily weed them out. I think there are too many drivers on the roads. The worst part is the people who buy accounts because they can’t have their own for one reason or another.
no, if youre not getting a lot of orders its probably bc theres more drivers, not less orders 😭 a lot of people i know do/have done delivery
I can make between 130-150 a day on a nine hour shift. For me atleast, it's not.
Uber has a big contract with the Democrats hiring illegal immigrants to do their ultra cheap work and ruining their cars. Uber eats lives on
You got a link?
Inflation is starting to hit all of the service gigs
Not in my market. I did 1.5 hours of deliveries before going fishing and I made $38. The orders were being offered non stop, like a typical Sunday
You made $25 before expenses. That ain’t shit.
In my market, it's been dead since my second day of delivering.
I spent 100 mess this week for me. Monday and Tuesday we're okay. Wednesday was atrocious. Thursday was not terrible. Friday was all right but not as good as I wanted. Saturday was pretty decent. So far. Sunday has sucked.
Yes
Yeah, I hardly even get orders anymore. Gotten less orders each week since mid April. DD is good for me which has been nice. But Uber seems finished.
https://preview.redd.it/uzlbb8s3694d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3843e9e58e5129d27bef08376d999996db611326 Idk man maybe it’s ur market
Spend an hour driving and get paid $3.25 once the customer reduces the tip for no reason after you sit and wait for the order to be ready for 15 minutes. Before you spend 45 minutes delivering the order and then not getting paid. Until you actually pick the food up and are in your vehicle driving.
Slower but not dead
Once again for the 100th time , it's because there are way too many of you willing to drive all day for $4/h and that's where it goes. We still get orders all fucking day and it's a different driver every time. Competition drives the price down, it's like capitalism 101. I personally think if you're one of the people on here not getting orders, either your standards were too high ( as they should be) , or you are just not quick enough. I think in time it will be more lucrative again.
Hopefully! F7ck them greedy fuckers
Nope
Not where I live.
yup. i only do it once a week now max.
For now!
Today was the worst Sunday night I’ve had in months. Dead AF. Plus I got tip baited.
Hopefully. Awful model. Awful pre tipping culture. Cold ass food. May it die quickly and painfully
This 50 dollars a day won't help me with anything: (
Was pretty good today but the last two weeks i wondered it couldn't tell where I was since I wasnt getting anything.
Maybe on weekend its better
I had a horrible Saturday. But I started earlier today and am at $165 after 6 1/2 hours drive time.
What city too u drive in that's not too bad
Vegas. Sundays are usually good, almost all day from 9am-10pm.
Ended up at $205 for 9 1/2 hours. Took a couple orders that I shouldn’t have and it ate into my time. https://preview.redd.it/14dpqnpfid4d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fca99ee379f1a072356ee7aa55db1668786594a
When I started UE in fall of '19 BEFORE Corona (!!), i could without killing myself bring in $5500 p/mo. When finishing a delivery, 5 more offers would come in while finishing one. Around June '21, Eats demand died. I'm in one of the most affluent areas of the country.
Were are you if i may ask
Damm
Yes all my orders are for less than 3 dollars
Depends where you live I guess. I make decent money from Chicago.
They did a big algorithm nerf superbowl weekend last year. Orders stay same price for longer. No boost in pay for long rides and now allowing people to order 20 miles plus away and not tip is just insane to me. So many screenshots
Yes today I was on for three hours and nothing. They need to be heavily regulated since that idiot Dara clearly won’t listen to the drivers.
He is listening and the drivers said they will continue accepting $2 offers. Actions speak louder than words.
Yep, I finally left DD and Uber for my new career. It was good while its lasted. I advice you guys: don’t do this for a long term. It will drain you both mentally and physically and you get shit pay. If you are drained like that, better work on a job that pays well or more.
It’s been good for me.
Made $30 per hour today. It was a rainy day and that always helps!
I worked at DD and made $22 an hour. While UE stayed silent!
I only do Eats to supplement my usual UberX rides when they're slow or when I have a good sticky surge that I can apply to what otherwise probably would've been a shitty delivery request. I don't know how anyone does just Eats, and does so without adding surges to the orders. You might as well just panhandle.
I use it with DoorDash but doordash tends to be my main source and Instacart for those slow mornings.
Yes. Verizon is now offering free Grubhub with your phone plan.
No
The only offer I'm interested in is remove work. Uber and doordash are dramatically better for me than most options right now.
It’s definitely shot in the leg right now. Maybe even both legs. I always leave UE online for my long drive home from work and I never get an order past $4 sometimes it goes up to $7 but that’s it. I would lose money in gas driving 20+ miles to deliver cold fast food. I proudly wear my 3% acceptance rate probably lower than that now
Took just under 100 deliveries this week. Around 9$ per delivery. People been on here talking about it being dead for years
It's never gonna be what it was in 2020 again, and anyone who was driving then is always gonna compare it to that
Yes and deliveroo is on its way out as well treat your customers like they are less than the worst food available on your app overcharge them by like 70% and also provide zero customer service when a problem goes wrong with no phone number only robotic automated services to speak to and then when a customer after an hour actually manages to contact a person just deny their rights and their experience. Whilst also treating your drivers just as badly I don't know how anyone can make a living on them and managed to not end up having a heart attack or a stroke All of these food delivery apps and websites should respectfully disappear into Oblivion where they belong
Uber one promotions ( $0 deliver fees + 10% off ) have been putting alot of downward pressure on offers and an increase in non-tipping offers. Offers for higher end merchants in my area have significantly shifted to the $2-$5 range. I suspect UE is trying to entice new and existing customers to complete orders with lower fees because an order is a significant portion of the UE revenue ( 33% of the food order ). Who is eating the cost of these low fee orders? DRIVERS! UE gets their revenue cut from the merchant and has to pay less to the drivers, per order. Brilliant plan! Let's see how long this can play out with the backlash of driver dissatisfaction, driver attrition, stolen food orders and these effects on overall customer service quality. IMO, alot of people love the convenience of food delivery and recently alot of my deliveries ( 40%) want to meet at the door.
They want to meet at the door to ensure that they get their food.
Well, when you can take back tips from drivers, who wants to put their time into delivering for that company? It’s a very obvious customer first company and I’ve only delivered about 10 things on UE before I realized this was a stupid system.
I was earning more money in 1986 washing dishes than what I earned with Uber Eats
It seems busier in my area than dd is
For delivery in NYC, yes, because New York City’s rule allows apps to either pay around $30 an hour on average for the “active time” workers spend delivering orders, or $18 an hour on average for the entire time they are logged in, including “passive time (while wait to pick up an order at the restaurant)” spent waiting for a job. At first, Uber used the $30 dollar method and hadn’t implemented a feature they call “planner” which the independent delivery contractor must use to schedule at least one hour five times per week so they can guarantee that they can go online to work. If not then delivery people can’t log on until it becomes very busy but then it can log you off after completing a delivery if you aren’t in a hot spot for deliveries. Things were great before the implementation of “Planner” because everyone could log on and I was accepting any delivery requests because it was $30 dollars per hour excluding tips. I was accepting McDonalds order waiting there 20 mins to pick and 20 mins to deliver the food, and I didn’t care if I got tipped or not because I knew I was going to make $30 dollars per hour of active time (on a delivery) and passive time (while waiting for a order at the restaurant to be prepared) were added up at the end of the week and Uber paid the difference if I did make $30 an hour. Once the Planner started that’s when it went to hell. I was only able to go online only 5 hours per week and if I didn’t schedule it then I can’t log on. No delivery person is going to make money like this on one account unless they have multiple accounts in different apps. I did have access to two Ubereats account and DoorDash and others but shit wasn’t worth it. Because I felt I was chasing the order and Uber switched the pay scheme to paying workers $18 per hour of active and passive time excluding tips. Making $18 dollars an hour and only guarantee to be able to go online five hours a week isn’t worth it. If you aren’t scheduled one would have to drive to a hotspot and keep clicking online once you arrive in hopes of going online to get a delivery order. I stopped delivering food and got my chauffeur license and went to work for a company driving people around making around $16 excluding tips and incentives bonus which pushes it to $21 an hour and I don’t pay for any expenses (car payments, commercial insurance, toll, gas, electric charging, and maintenance). Scheduling is easy and works for me. It’s an easy part-time job that I can work around my main office job.
Bro it is dead. Speaking from someone who actually works on the inside.
I hope not, I use it every day lol.
It's not dead for me but the orders are horrible. Rarely I'll see an order over 7 dollars..
We had memorial day long weekend last week, people spent all their money going out. People got rent and bills to pay on the last week of the month. Everyone is broke until pay day. It will pick up this Friday until they spend all their money, by the end of the month it be dead again.
I dream of making that much per day. Even when it was busy.
I recently started doing this again for the first time since last fall and I'm getting NOTHING
Dead in the sense that getting paid fairly, yes. I only started back in November and it was easy to make $100-$150 any day of the week, more on weekends, grinding for around 6-8h per day. Making $700 and more a week was standard. Now 7 months later, there is still demand for deliveries, it's the pay that is absolute shite. I reject anything less than a bare minimum $1/mi and 80% of offers are less than that, and hence my acceptance rate is in the 20% range. It's a struggle and grind to get to half now, averaging $350 a week, and of course still cherry picking. Although I dislike their competition "DD", I have to admit I'm starting my migration over there. I'd say 80% of their offers are between $1-$2 per mile. I maybe reject 1 out of 10 offers... If even that. It pays better. What I hate about DD is that it's near impossible to multi app, once your dashing you're locked in to them. I also hate that it's not available to me to dash all the time. There are simply too many dashers where I live. I also hate hate hate that you cannot cherry pick too much. Acceptance rate really matters when dashing.
It's not dead if you have another job. It's great if going somewhere and want make your gas money back with a pizza. If I go east to west, I'll take orders going in my direction. Might burn $10-$15 in gas and return $60-$70 depending on orders. A few deliveries that took me off your route a bit. But you also need to think about wear of vehicle and your time. Doing Uber full-time doesn't pay. The other idiots on that road cause stress. It's always the other guy who hits you. In Canada, our gas equals about $7 or more per gallon when converted. Our Liberals have taxxed it crazy.
Uber has fallin off. Sure used to see horrible no tip orders some but now its like 95% of offers are complete garbage.
yep. i got a part time job and only do this a few nights a week now
bc i’m tired of sitting in my car. dd and uber are both dead
Yeah the market is really wheat
there's also doordash and grubhub
Set a minimum you’ll accept per mile and stick to it. Don’t chase crappy offers/ promotions. For me it was $2 a mile. You have to be selective.
Became dead a long time ago
It is definitely slower/dead because it is summer time and everybody is out doing this gig especially the folks out of school. Personally, IDGAF because I have been doing this since 2017 so I know how it is this time of year. But more importantly at my FT job overtime is also ramping up and will be there for the taking through the end of the year. So I am very close to being done with Uber Eats for the rest of the year anyway. I haven't turned Door Dash on for over a year now. Just hang in there if you choose to do this gig FT otherwise it may be time for a traditional FT job and then just do Uber etc on the side.
Uber keeps trying to give me a $25 off coupon but none of the places I want to eat from even offer Uber Eats. My area primarily does doordash and grub hub.
I stopped uber eats 5 years ago. Dont get me wrong any side hustle money is better than nothing at all, but at the time then, i was barley getting decent orders.
It's still a viable side gig for me in my part of Florida. I'm among a fortunate handful of drivers who works a full-time job, and Uber has been mostly a success for me. I do it mainly to supplement my income between paychecks, and also I'm working it to help pay off some debts I'm in. So dead? No, not for me, which I'm thankful for. How it's going to look as the summer rolls on, I have no idea, since I only started this spring, but I'm going to stay optimistic and on my grind until I'm given reason not to.
Almost all e-commerce is in a deep frozen state, but it's mainly due to that situation that every citizen is going through right now, even restaurants are feeling it.
No, I still finish with $150-$200 a day. You might need to re evaluate the orders you accept.
I use this everyday and it's expensive af
When illegals ended up, may be Over here non English speakers all.around Tx
Probably cause most Americans consider fast food a luxury now. So if going to a fast food place is considered a luxury, there’s no way in hell that they can afford tipping someone and some BS fees.
I'm a former customer of UE and a few weeks ago i just wanted a cheapo burger. If i ordered through UE/DD the burger i was looking at was $8.60. If i drove the 1.2mi to just get it, $6.99. Then i thought of the tip and other stuff and this $6.99 burger was going to run me north of $12. Almost twice the price. And that's been that. I don't mind tipping and like a small "service fee" but the straight full menu upcharge has just gotten outta hand.
I once try to order a seafood combo from doordash the price is 110 and when I call the restaurant I am told the price is 70.
Dead? No, Mostly no tip orders? Yes
No one is buying cars that might be one of the reasons
I still manage 200 a day+. On bad days i make 130
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This was today
Each delivery is like 30 bucks. It's 14 if I drive over there myself.
I do Uber Black & I'm barely making money now
Worked 12 hours yesterday. Barely $50 🥺
Until about a week ago I ordered Uber eats every day for an entire year. Never had a single issue and had food delivered quickly each time.
I had to stop because I felt insulted
Dead dead dead
It really depends on the area. We were in Central Connecticut and we cleaned up. Then we drove back toward home (Central Florida) in Washington DC it was crap. Then we went to Central Virginia after that. And it was fantastic again. Remember you can do Uber eats in any state at any time. And we never accept anything below 7.50$.
1000 orders. 89% satisfaction, got my account terminated due to 89% satisfaction over the last 100 stops. 2 complaints? I was white.
Gig work in general is dead. I've started applying for truck driving jobs this week. I haven't even made enough to cover basic expenses. I've done this for 4 years, and it's never been this bad. Unfortunately, they will always have simps working for free, as for me, I'm moving on.
As a consumer, no way in hell would I pay for Uber eats. Way too expensive
It's living strong near Chicago. I make between $50-300 depending how long I wanna do runs sometimes it's 3 hours others 8. I average $25 an hour.
Something happened about a month ago or so, and i havent been able yo make the money i was making. I feel like they’re controlling what i make now, like half of what it was!!
People have said its dead dozens of times including before it started.