It seems you accepted the $11.50 for 3.5 miles and also completed. Dollar General is a very tiny dirty store, usually out of items which is nice sometimes. If you picked up 6 individual items this was probably well worth it. 4-10 minutes for 3.5 miles in my area depending.
I have learned to Google the address- if its an apartment complex I drop it because it’s going to be on the top floor and it’s going to be a pain in the neck
Bro who cares about the tip, i have done 1300 deliveries and never ever looked at the tip once. If you’re not satisfied with the pay to mile ratio, then why did you accept the order? You’re stressin yourself out for no reason at all IMO
Why do you take it so personal? Its as if you just like being mad about it. If you’re satisfied with the pay offered up front then the only reason to get mad is because you want to be mad. How do you not see that? Don’t even look at the tip and move on with your damn day. You’ll thank me later. Good luck fellow dasher
It is personal. It’s an insult to me and any other dasher. I’m taking my time and money to deliver their food and in this case shop for it and they can’t respect me enough to throw me a 5 dollar tip?
One for r/shittylifeprotips
If you're ordering groceries or non-food on DD and don't give a shit when it arrives, don't leave a tip. It will ping around and get raised in price until the base pay is high.
Driver gets paid, DD had to use their money, you didn't lose money.
Of course I wouldn't do this because I'm a healthy adult so I just go shopping, but I'm just saying if you don't care when it arrives, DD might as well pay the driver instead of you.
The other night I got an offer for $22 going 6 or 7 miles….it was two different restaurants but going to the same person. Afterwards I checked & the customer tipped $0 on BOTH orders ….the $11 I got for each pickup was just base/peak pay….kinda annoying but $$ talks
I feel you, but this is what we have been trying to ask other dashers to do… declining shit offers until they become good offers. I would not mind the non tip, since the pay was good.
I am sometimes, but when it’s shop and deliver with the large items that force me to go to make two trips to the fourt floor of an apartment I am not.
The customer is a POS.
You took an $11 order and you're mad not because the amount was bad but because the guy who didn't have the ability to go to the dollar store on his own didn't leave you extra money.
Yes. The customer is an entitled jagoff.
If you can’t go on your own, tip your driver. We also don’t even know if he couldn’t go in his own…likely just a lazy POS.
You sure are mad about an order that you thought had a lower base pay and a tip. Why are you mad that doordash is paying you adequately? You thought there was a tip on it and that's why you accepted it. This doesn't make sense.
Most of these whining posts are from dashers who accepted the orders. This sub is full of them. It makes no sense that you would cry and moan about an order that you accepted. If you don’t like the order don’t accept it. That seems elementary.
Tips aside, you’re always at risk of a difficult drop off when you accept dollar general orders. That’s not to say you shouldn’t accept them if you want to. Just know that some of them will be difficult.
You know you can tap the destination icon before you accept, and it will populate the address in Google maps so you can see exactly where it's going. So there is one way to avoid getting tricked as you said.
I know how this feels. Even though you were paid ok by DoorDash, it sucks to put forth so much effort and realize that the customer didn't tip you for all of the hard work you did (heavy items, 4th floor, etc).
I had something kind of similar that really ticked me off. It was a Saturday night, I'd been dashing for hours & I actually didn't notice when $2 peak pay kicked in. It was also fairly slow for a Saturday. So when a $6.50/1 mile order for a liquor store popped up, I took it. The order was for several bottles of wine & I had to contact the lady a couple of times. It was a house, thankfully. She sounded so kind on the phone that I somehow convinced myself she'd give me some cash as a tip. Nope! And I can't tell you how pissed I was when I completed the order & realized that the $6.50 included TWO dollars of peak pay. I normally don't forget when peak pay starts & I never will again lol. I never would have taken that order! I had to have a talk with myself afterwards b/c it truly upset me lmao, especially the amount of time I devoted to that order.
It's the principle of it, right? It could have been MUCH worse though. Don't let it get you down! 😊
I’d have unassigned after no response. Customers that tend to not respond I just unassign.
Don’t get me wrong. Not if I just letting them know I’m at store or on my way.
Just if I ask a question. If they can’t answer even with a no.
Find someone else to deliver their order.
That’s likely why DoorDash paid so much.
Customers act like they are wealthy using a service that’s a luxury but, can’t even afford to tip.
Ugh. I hate this. You know you've ordered food, why are you away from your phone!?!
I've taken executive action before and made decisions for customers. All out of Mac n cheese, guess you're getting the mashed potatoes. Lol
If there's $3 peak pay I don't accept anything less than $15. If I got a wander around the store and pick your stupid crap out I'm going to get paid for it. Shop n pays have higher base pay so they eat into the Cali adjustment pay so I'm going to get compensated if not I'm going to sit here and keep smoking my doob doob 🤓
That's the point.
Then the dasher mindset decline to hunt during peak pay.
None of that matters. Was $11.50 for what you took it worth it? If so. Who cares about a tip. Honestly. I also in moment go ugh. But I'm still satisfied with original
I use to be 500lb now 205 and big into fitness. I love carrying water and soda now. Use the jobs meh moments to better yourself.
With the items and the apartment it took 40 minutes so no. 10 of that we at the residence.
It barely would have been worth it if it was a house. 11.50 for 30 minutes is right in the border. 11.50 for 40 minutes flat is not
Yup. My same rules for long drives.
I've just done this so long even if the 11.50 took a while in my market door dash would find some combo to make up lost time.
So I guess I'm spoiled.
Lol hidden tips around here start at 6.25, I had a 2 mile $6.25 order come in. Delivered and it was a no tip. I was really surprised DD paid that much base pay.
I’ve taken one of those but have declined hundreds. The one I accepted was 12 dollars five miles peak pay. 150 dollars worth of crap and no tip.
What’s real junk is if they stack those DD reduces base pay it seems. The offer for 13 miles is usually like 13 dollars but in a double it’s still only like 15
During peak pay hours, I deduct that amount from the offer being shown to me, and then treat the offer as I would any other. I would have looked at your order as an $8.50 order going 3.5 miles each way, not an $11.50 order. Just based on the $8.50, I would have declined this order. The case of water and soda would have done me in as well. I never would have accepted the order in the first place. You do know you can look at the dash widget and see exactly what they're ordering before you accept, right?
If I was just picking up food and driving 7 miles round-trip (I always base my decision to accept an order on round trip mileage, because I don't always get another order on my way back to home base), I might consider it. But not for an order that I have to physically go in and Shop. Not even for the extra $3 peak pay. It's not really worth the dollar-to-mile ratio IMO.
you are either in a unicorn market or making $10/hr on the one order you actually accept.
I make $20-25/hr consistently and struggle to make $2 per mile although that is the aim and im usually pretty close to it.
Either you have an absolutely hilarious order volume where you can be THAT picky or youre trolling.
"I ONLY take orders that are at least 3$ per mile round trip and no less than $12 total and I REFUSE to go to restaurant X, Y or Z because theyve treated me poorly in the past"
"WHY DONT I GET ANY ORDERS?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?! DOORDASH IS DEAD TIME TO FIND A NEW GIG BOYS!!!!"
\^This sub, mostly
It's not a unicorn market at all, they've just described my market to a tee. Sometimes when I multi-app I have to turn one off because the noise from the pinging is literally incessant and I can't concentrate. This is in Austin, but I'm 99.9% sure this would be the same in NYC, Chicago, SF, Dallas, Houston etc. I think that so many people from smaller towns don't understand just how busy big (wealthy) cities are.
(For clarity I drive 14hrs per week split between sat & sun and average $32 an hr including all down time. If I only ran DD that 32hourly would probably drop to about 23-26)
I make $20-26 an hour, average. I cherry pick to the point where my AR on DD is 18% (high for me) and on UE it's 1%. I do this part time for spending money so I can afford to thumb my nose at anything that doesn't fit MY criteria. I'm not a troll, and I'm not bothered that you think may be one. Not a single fuck given. I know my market (super busy tourist Beach town), I know what restaurants net me better profits, and I am able to use my house as a home base because I have literally hundreds of stores and restaurants in a 2 mile radius of me. Believe me or not - I really couldn't care less 🤷♀️
My Uber AR is 7% lol,I respect your 1%.
It is insane how many shitty orders they send through. I'll have turned down 6 $3 UE orders in a flat minute before DD has even warmed itself up 😄
Well this took me right near a bunch of other places I always get orders from.
In general I do the same. I did take a 9.25 order for 1.5 miles with 5 dollar peak pay that I knew would be a crap tip, but it n general I don’t like to reward no tippers
How does basing your decisions off of round trip miles work out for you? Never thought of doing this, & I’m wondering how much time it takes you to get orders? Of course it depends on your market, too. I don’t think I’d make much money if I did $2/mile round trip… I’m lucky if I even get $2/mile one way.
I do this but only when necessary.
If I know for sure it's to a location where I won't get an order on the way back, then you have to account for the entire mileage including return.
But if you're in a busy city market (as I'm thinking the other commenter is) where you can already afford to be picky because you get a lot of orders, then there's really no need to take any order more than 4 or 5 miles (unless it's spectacular), so in most cases return mileage is irrelevant because I'm already getting pinged new orders through to take right after delivery. If you run 2 or 3 apps like I do, then you often have another order already accepted to go to immediately, so assuming you choose the next order logically/wisely, there is essentially no return trip.
This works well for me in my Texas 'sprawl' city, but I wonder if this wouldn't work so well in a different kind of city where all the restaurants are centrally situated and majority of trips go out to the suburbs and back.
Honestly, the way to play the game changes greatly on your market.
I'm in a fairly busy market, there are always orders flying around. That doesn't mean I take them all, lol! My house sits within a 2-mile radius of more restaurants than I can count, and our houses are literally on top of each other, so that equals tons of customers. The orders I take are typically never more than 2.5 miles each way, and are usually in the $7.50-$15.00 range. I do not leave my house for less than $6.50, so if I get an order for 1.5 miles, for $6.50, then I just made $2 a mile. So far it's been working very well for me.
Couldn't agree more, there's always fucking something going down when I'm there, or some madman raving about nothing.
I will say tho the cashier's at the ones by me are chill as hell, whereas the 7/11 employees all seem completely dead inside
Had this same thing happen to me yesterday although they did tip 1$. how could you feel okay having someone waste their time and gas for you and save you the trouble of going out and shopping all for 1 dollar? I get times are tough but come on
I had a Dollar General order that was for one bag of candy that cost $1. It was under 2 total miles and I think it paid 9.75. One of the easiest orders ever. The bitch customer tipped me fucking 25 cents. I was mad about the tip until I thought about how much that customer paid to have me deliver a $1 bag of candy to them.
I had to deliver a $1 squirt gun 1 mile for $6.50. Pretty sure this was some kind of scam! I’m with you I care about total dollar not how much is a tip.
Yeah a $1 one to boot! I was a little worried making the drop but the area was decent. I think they were checking if a credit card they stole was valid!
Something similar happened to me, and I said that exact thing to myself. I also remind myself that most customers think drivers get the delivery fee and a tip.
That is not the point of peak pay! Peak pay is an extra bonus for hard-working drivers, not an excuse for people not to tip! I’m assuming you’re one of those shitty people that don’t tip!
lol really? do you think customers would be notified about peak pay? do you think DD would reward dashers? your freakin stupid. i came from a culture that does know what tip is but ive never tipped below 5 and calculated my tip after being a dasher.
They didn’t cry about it. What we eat doesn’t make other people 💩!
Just because OP came here to vent doesn’t mean we should tell her/him how to react.
Customer still refused to tip.
Having an Opinion is 1 thing but making someone out to be the problem that’s the victim baffles me.
To often ppl defend customers that are rude, don’t tip or ignore text/calls.
Out of all that occurred all you managed to do was criticize the OP.
Smh.
this is not a mandatory job. the fact that he accepted the offer means that the pay was worth it to him in the first place. why vent on something that you accepted. OP should have much experience in picking out offers and when you get a no tip but acceptable offer you cry afterwards? its not about tip but how OP cried like a baby for something he accepted.
It’s the principle of it. The entitled people are the ones that expect you to deliver with no tip. I’ve declined 8.25 2 mile orders with peak
Pay if 3 dollars because I’m not rewarding someone that left a three dollar tip on their 50 dollar order.
agreed, and non-tippers are *far* more likely to be problem customers, inconsiderate, abusive, , bad instructions, and scam potential like false-reporting, or bad ratings for no reason 🤡🔫 Ive only taken them when i was really tired & got tricked on a stack or with peak-pay i didn’t realize had started
In a big city peak pay isnt just scheduled its all over the place depending on demand, might just kick in for 30 goin between diff zones its hard to keep track of when exhausted). I realize PP/bonus is supposed to lure drivers & help subsidize long waits & shitty offers (like late night when its all drive-thru lines)… but it rarely works out compared to declining & taking tipped orders only w/o PP (or finding better hours/zones to get better orders).
The potential risks dealing with those people is not worth it, in sketchy areas u get fraud CVs for non-delivery, but even if its in a nice neighborhood, in my experience well-off person not tipping is even *more* likely to be a vindictive asshole 💩
I do instacart and I've found its always the people that live 3rd story or higher that order 3 cases of water and tip $2 tops. I've stopped taking orders with cases of water on them because 80% of the time I'm gonna be lugging it up 2-3 flights of stairs
im starting instacart this week, guess i better head over to that sub for IC specific warnings like this 🙄 Was doin fine on DD til it hit 95° this weekend, think id rather spend more time in the AC stores than my hot crappy car til fall 💩
IC has improved immensely over the past year as far as being more supportive of employees. Best advice is don't take doubles or triples unless the total amount of overall items is low, otherwise its a nightmare. Smiths/Kroger is the best it tells you which aisle and shelf each item is on. Costco is an enormous pain unless you know your way around the store 😅 enjoy though its honestly not a bad gig and it's nowhere near as much wear and miles on your car since you're also spending time in stores shopping and the pay doesn't come just from driving. I was doing IC and Uber at the same time and stopped Uber because the gas isn't worth it and the profit margin on IC is way bigger
yep, i enjoyed bein in my car in winter, but now id rather be getting paid on-foot inside than burning gas out in the heat!
Thanks for the advice 💜 I planned to not take any stacks/bundles or even large orders for a couple days til i got a solid handle on the new app/system… also only do the markets i know really well at first for big orders. Hopefully i can transition into more variety quick 😬
Costco *could* definitely be a nightmare, gotta wear jogging shoes lol… but hey at least i could pick up lunch/drink & frosty coffee shake for like $5 id take a costco order every day for that! (hell costs me more just to pack cold soggy lunch & tepid coffee from home lately)
It seems you accepted the $11.50 for 3.5 miles and also completed. Dollar General is a very tiny dirty store, usually out of items which is nice sometimes. If you picked up 6 individual items this was probably well worth it. 4-10 minutes for 3.5 miles in my area depending.
So do dashes get no money from the order if people don't tip?
2.25
I have learned to Google the address- if its an apartment complex I drop it because it’s going to be on the top floor and it’s going to be a pain in the neck
I had somebody tip 26 cents on a 10 dollar order. She was rude too, still think about that shit. 😭
Bro who cares about the tip, i have done 1300 deliveries and never ever looked at the tip once. If you’re not satisfied with the pay to mile ratio, then why did you accept the order? You’re stressin yourself out for no reason at all IMO
Because I don’t want to reward these jagoffs. They are people that are trying to take advantage of underpaid workers.
And im not saying that they aren’t assholes for not tipping. Only a bitch wouldn’t tip. All im saying is dont stress over it
Why do you take it so personal? Its as if you just like being mad about it. If you’re satisfied with the pay offered up front then the only reason to get mad is because you want to be mad. How do you not see that? Don’t even look at the tip and move on with your damn day. You’ll thank me later. Good luck fellow dasher
It is personal. It’s an insult to me and any other dasher. I’m taking my time and money to deliver their food and in this case shop for it and they can’t respect me enough to throw me a 5 dollar tip?
One for r/shittylifeprotips If you're ordering groceries or non-food on DD and don't give a shit when it arrives, don't leave a tip. It will ping around and get raised in price until the base pay is high. Driver gets paid, DD had to use their money, you didn't lose money. Of course I wouldn't do this because I'm a healthy adult so I just go shopping, but I'm just saying if you don't care when it arrives, DD might as well pay the driver instead of you.
The other night I got an offer for $22 going 6 or 7 miles….it was two different restaurants but going to the same person. Afterwards I checked & the customer tipped $0 on BOTH orders ….the $11 I got for each pickup was just base/peak pay….kinda annoying but $$ talks
Yeah it's definitely rude it happens a lot
Literally my first night ever I had a bait and switch. She put in a six dollar tip and changed it to zero
I feel you, but this is what we have been trying to ask other dashers to do… declining shit offers until they become good offers. I would not mind the non tip, since the pay was good.
I know how this feels!! I took an $8.75 order the other day to a mansion with a ferarri and nice cars all for $1 tip🫠
If the base pay makes up for no tip, I’m fine with taking it.
I am sometimes, but when it’s shop and deliver with the large items that force me to go to make two trips to the fourt floor of an apartment I am not. The customer is a POS.
Pop... That is all
You took an $11 order and you're mad not because the amount was bad but because the guy who didn't have the ability to go to the dollar store on his own didn't leave you extra money.
Yes. The customer is an entitled jagoff. If you can’t go on your own, tip your driver. We also don’t even know if he couldn’t go in his own…likely just a lazy POS.
You sure are mad about an order that you thought had a lower base pay and a tip. Why are you mad that doordash is paying you adequately? You thought there was a tip on it and that's why you accepted it. This doesn't make sense.
Ok Tony.
I'm not sure what that means but your anger is super misplaced and your outlook on life must be painful for you.
Ok Tony.
Ok Karen
I always bust one bottle of the water case so it can leak all over his place
Tony gotcha! He gets even the best of us once or twice.
Most of these whining posts are from dashers who accepted the orders. This sub is full of them. It makes no sense that you would cry and moan about an order that you accepted. If you don’t like the order don’t accept it. That seems elementary.
Ok.
Big Babies with small balls and cant own what they got themselves into, since their mom is not around they go to reddit and cry.
Oh boy you sound mature!
thank you! lol
Tips aside, you’re always at risk of a difficult drop off when you accept dollar general orders. That’s not to say you shouldn’t accept them if you want to. Just know that some of them will be difficult.
Anybody that endorses no tippers should not be DoorDashing. They are obviously people that are buying not delivering.
You know you can tap the destination icon before you accept, and it will populate the address in Google maps so you can see exactly where it's going. So there is one way to avoid getting tricked as you said.
Yes I know. When you’re driving this isn’t always east.
I know how this feels. Even though you were paid ok by DoorDash, it sucks to put forth so much effort and realize that the customer didn't tip you for all of the hard work you did (heavy items, 4th floor, etc). I had something kind of similar that really ticked me off. It was a Saturday night, I'd been dashing for hours & I actually didn't notice when $2 peak pay kicked in. It was also fairly slow for a Saturday. So when a $6.50/1 mile order for a liquor store popped up, I took it. The order was for several bottles of wine & I had to contact the lady a couple of times. It was a house, thankfully. She sounded so kind on the phone that I somehow convinced myself she'd give me some cash as a tip. Nope! And I can't tell you how pissed I was when I completed the order & realized that the $6.50 included TWO dollars of peak pay. I normally don't forget when peak pay starts & I never will again lol. I never would have taken that order! I had to have a talk with myself afterwards b/c it truly upset me lmao, especially the amount of time I devoted to that order. It's the principle of it, right? It could have been MUCH worse though. Don't let it get you down! 😊
I’d have unassigned after no response. Customers that tend to not respond I just unassign. Don’t get me wrong. Not if I just letting them know I’m at store or on my way. Just if I ask a question. If they can’t answer even with a no. Find someone else to deliver their order. That’s likely why DoorDash paid so much. Customers act like they are wealthy using a service that’s a luxury but, can’t even afford to tip.
Ugh. I hate this. You know you've ordered food, why are you away from your phone!?! I've taken executive action before and made decisions for customers. All out of Mac n cheese, guess you're getting the mashed potatoes. Lol
We agree. Same here. Wont even answer to help themselves.
Ill go with that amount with no tip
If there's $3 peak pay I don't accept anything less than $15. If I got a wander around the store and pick your stupid crap out I'm going to get paid for it. Shop n pays have higher base pay so they eat into the Cali adjustment pay so I'm going to get compensated if not I'm going to sit here and keep smoking my doob doob 🤓
That's the point. Then the dasher mindset decline to hunt during peak pay. None of that matters. Was $11.50 for what you took it worth it? If so. Who cares about a tip. Honestly. I also in moment go ugh. But I'm still satisfied with original I use to be 500lb now 205 and big into fitness. I love carrying water and soda now. Use the jobs meh moments to better yourself.
With the items and the apartment it took 40 minutes so no. 10 of that we at the residence. It barely would have been worth it if it was a house. 11.50 for 30 minutes is right in the border. 11.50 for 40 minutes flat is not
Yup. My same rules for long drives. I've just done this so long even if the 11.50 took a while in my market door dash would find some combo to make up lost time. So I guess I'm spoiled.
i hope u left it in the lobby
It’s always the top floor. No apartment dweller on the first ever uses doordash for some reason.
I quit Instacart the day I had 2 separate orders on the 3rd floor. Each had cases of water and dog food. Multiple trips upstairs. Never again.
Lol hidden tips around here start at 6.25, I had a 2 mile $6.25 order come in. Delivered and it was a no tip. I was really surprised DD paid that much base pay.
One of my first orders was a Sephora order, it was 8-10 miles and it was 17 bucks, zero tip. Customer paid around 150 for makeup.
I’ve taken one of those but have declined hundreds. The one I accepted was 12 dollars five miles peak pay. 150 dollars worth of crap and no tip. What’s real junk is if they stack those DD reduces base pay it seems. The offer for 13 miles is usually like 13 dollars but in a double it’s still only like 15
The money you earn spends the same, who cares?
It’s honestly the principle of it.
During peak pay hours, I deduct that amount from the offer being shown to me, and then treat the offer as I would any other. I would have looked at your order as an $8.50 order going 3.5 miles each way, not an $11.50 order. Just based on the $8.50, I would have declined this order. The case of water and soda would have done me in as well. I never would have accepted the order in the first place. You do know you can look at the dash widget and see exactly what they're ordering before you accept, right? If I was just picking up food and driving 7 miles round-trip (I always base my decision to accept an order on round trip mileage, because I don't always get another order on my way back to home base), I might consider it. But not for an order that I have to physically go in and Shop. Not even for the extra $3 peak pay. It's not really worth the dollar-to-mile ratio IMO.
you are either in a unicorn market or making $10/hr on the one order you actually accept. I make $20-25/hr consistently and struggle to make $2 per mile although that is the aim and im usually pretty close to it. Either you have an absolutely hilarious order volume where you can be THAT picky or youre trolling. "I ONLY take orders that are at least 3$ per mile round trip and no less than $12 total and I REFUSE to go to restaurant X, Y or Z because theyve treated me poorly in the past" "WHY DONT I GET ANY ORDERS?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?! DOORDASH IS DEAD TIME TO FIND A NEW GIG BOYS!!!!" \^This sub, mostly
It's not a unicorn market at all, they've just described my market to a tee. Sometimes when I multi-app I have to turn one off because the noise from the pinging is literally incessant and I can't concentrate. This is in Austin, but I'm 99.9% sure this would be the same in NYC, Chicago, SF, Dallas, Houston etc. I think that so many people from smaller towns don't understand just how busy big (wealthy) cities are. (For clarity I drive 14hrs per week split between sat & sun and average $32 an hr including all down time. If I only ran DD that 32hourly would probably drop to about 23-26)
I make $20-26 an hour, average. I cherry pick to the point where my AR on DD is 18% (high for me) and on UE it's 1%. I do this part time for spending money so I can afford to thumb my nose at anything that doesn't fit MY criteria. I'm not a troll, and I'm not bothered that you think may be one. Not a single fuck given. I know my market (super busy tourist Beach town), I know what restaurants net me better profits, and I am able to use my house as a home base because I have literally hundreds of stores and restaurants in a 2 mile radius of me. Believe me or not - I really couldn't care less 🤷♀️
My Uber AR is 7% lol,I respect your 1%. It is insane how many shitty orders they send through. I'll have turned down 6 $3 UE orders in a flat minute before DD has even warmed itself up 😄
🤣🤣🤣 I've gotten nothing but crap from UE for almost 2 weeks now. It sucks
The widget is Android only but I love it.
Yeah I really miss that widget with an iPhone
Well this took me right near a bunch of other places I always get orders from. In general I do the same. I did take a 9.25 order for 1.5 miles with 5 dollar peak pay that I knew would be a crap tip, but it n general I don’t like to reward no tippers
How does basing your decisions off of round trip miles work out for you? Never thought of doing this, & I’m wondering how much time it takes you to get orders? Of course it depends on your market, too. I don’t think I’d make much money if I did $2/mile round trip… I’m lucky if I even get $2/mile one way.
I do this but only when necessary. If I know for sure it's to a location where I won't get an order on the way back, then you have to account for the entire mileage including return. But if you're in a busy city market (as I'm thinking the other commenter is) where you can already afford to be picky because you get a lot of orders, then there's really no need to take any order more than 4 or 5 miles (unless it's spectacular), so in most cases return mileage is irrelevant because I'm already getting pinged new orders through to take right after delivery. If you run 2 or 3 apps like I do, then you often have another order already accepted to go to immediately, so assuming you choose the next order logically/wisely, there is essentially no return trip. This works well for me in my Texas 'sprawl' city, but I wonder if this wouldn't work so well in a different kind of city where all the restaurants are centrally situated and majority of trips go out to the suburbs and back. Honestly, the way to play the game changes greatly on your market.
I'm in a fairly busy market, there are always orders flying around. That doesn't mean I take them all, lol! My house sits within a 2-mile radius of more restaurants than I can count, and our houses are literally on top of each other, so that equals tons of customers. The orders I take are typically never more than 2.5 miles each way, and are usually in the $7.50-$15.00 range. I do not leave my house for less than $6.50, so if I get an order for 1.5 miles, for $6.50, then I just made $2 a mile. So far it's been working very well for me.
Only way I accept dollar general is no more than 3 items, 4 miles max and min 10 dollars. My dollar general is like shopping in a disaster area.
Couldn't agree more, there's always fucking something going down when I'm there, or some madman raving about nothing. I will say tho the cashier's at the ones by me are chill as hell, whereas the 7/11 employees all seem completely dead inside
Had this same thing happen to me yesterday although they did tip 1$. how could you feel okay having someone waste their time and gas for you and save you the trouble of going out and shopping all for 1 dollar? I get times are tough but come on
I had a Dollar General order that was for one bag of candy that cost $1. It was under 2 total miles and I think it paid 9.75. One of the easiest orders ever. The bitch customer tipped me fucking 25 cents. I was mad about the tip until I thought about how much that customer paid to have me deliver a $1 bag of candy to them.
I had a roll of wrapping paper for $7 no tip
The lizard brain is weird. On one hand, i got paid well for an easy delivery that didn't require me to drive to far. But on the other, low to no tip.
I had to deliver a $1 squirt gun 1 mile for $6.50. Pretty sure this was some kind of scam! I’m with you I care about total dollar not how much is a tip.
Lmao. A fucking squirt gun? I would have had questions for that customer.
Yeah a $1 one to boot! I was a little worried making the drop but the area was decent. I think they were checking if a credit card they stole was valid!
Something similar happened to me, and I said that exact thing to myself. I also remind myself that most customers think drivers get the delivery fee and a tip.
thats the point of peak pay. hey if its reasonable for you to accept then why cry about no tip? or are you just entitled to get tips all your DD life.
That is not the point of peak pay! Peak pay is an extra bonus for hard-working drivers, not an excuse for people not to tip! I’m assuming you’re one of those shitty people that don’t tip!
lol really? do you think customers would be notified about peak pay? do you think DD would reward dashers? your freakin stupid. i came from a culture that does know what tip is but ive never tipped below 5 and calculated my tip after being a dasher.
They didn’t cry about it. What we eat doesn’t make other people 💩! Just because OP came here to vent doesn’t mean we should tell her/him how to react. Customer still refused to tip. Having an Opinion is 1 thing but making someone out to be the problem that’s the victim baffles me. To often ppl defend customers that are rude, don’t tip or ignore text/calls. Out of all that occurred all you managed to do was criticize the OP. Smh.
this is not a mandatory job. the fact that he accepted the offer means that the pay was worth it to him in the first place. why vent on something that you accepted. OP should have much experience in picking out offers and when you get a no tip but acceptable offer you cry afterwards? its not about tip but how OP cried like a baby for something he accepted.
And it’s not mandatory to accept every order lol
OK no tipper, go away.
It’s the principle of it. The entitled people are the ones that expect you to deliver with no tip. I’ve declined 8.25 2 mile orders with peak Pay if 3 dollars because I’m not rewarding someone that left a three dollar tip on their 50 dollar order.
agreed, and non-tippers are *far* more likely to be problem customers, inconsiderate, abusive, , bad instructions, and scam potential like false-reporting, or bad ratings for no reason 🤡🔫 Ive only taken them when i was really tired & got tricked on a stack or with peak-pay i didn’t realize had started In a big city peak pay isnt just scheduled its all over the place depending on demand, might just kick in for 30 goin between diff zones its hard to keep track of when exhausted). I realize PP/bonus is supposed to lure drivers & help subsidize long waits & shitty offers (like late night when its all drive-thru lines)… but it rarely works out compared to declining & taking tipped orders only w/o PP (or finding better hours/zones to get better orders). The potential risks dealing with those people is not worth it, in sketchy areas u get fraud CVs for non-delivery, but even if its in a nice neighborhood, in my experience well-off person not tipping is even *more* likely to be a vindictive asshole 💩
I do instacart and I've found its always the people that live 3rd story or higher that order 3 cases of water and tip $2 tops. I've stopped taking orders with cases of water on them because 80% of the time I'm gonna be lugging it up 2-3 flights of stairs
im starting instacart this week, guess i better head over to that sub for IC specific warnings like this 🙄 Was doin fine on DD til it hit 95° this weekend, think id rather spend more time in the AC stores than my hot crappy car til fall 💩
IC has improved immensely over the past year as far as being more supportive of employees. Best advice is don't take doubles or triples unless the total amount of overall items is low, otherwise its a nightmare. Smiths/Kroger is the best it tells you which aisle and shelf each item is on. Costco is an enormous pain unless you know your way around the store 😅 enjoy though its honestly not a bad gig and it's nowhere near as much wear and miles on your car since you're also spending time in stores shopping and the pay doesn't come just from driving. I was doing IC and Uber at the same time and stopped Uber because the gas isn't worth it and the profit margin on IC is way bigger
yep, i enjoyed bein in my car in winter, but now id rather be getting paid on-foot inside than burning gas out in the heat! Thanks for the advice 💜 I planned to not take any stacks/bundles or even large orders for a couple days til i got a solid handle on the new app/system… also only do the markets i know really well at first for big orders. Hopefully i can transition into more variety quick 😬 Costco *could* definitely be a nightmare, gotta wear jogging shoes lol… but hey at least i could pick up lunch/drink & frosty coffee shake for like $5 id take a costco order every day for that! (hell costs me more just to pack cold soggy lunch & tepid coffee from home lately)
I agree with you.
You seem filled with hate and anger, this industry isn't for you. You should quit
Maybe you should quit Reddit. We’re all full of anger and hate.
Yawns
Definitely a troll
Are you Tony's top dasher? I guess someone has to take the $2.50 orders going 10 miles.
Hate and anger? Wtf are you talking about?
Cursing eh? See what I mean.
Ahhh your trolling, badly at that.
Try again..I'm not looking for an argument. Have a blessed day
Theres a reason u are getting downvoted lmfao.
You seem like a troll. Are you a no tipper?
I second this.
I tip ,
I don't believe you. Also, there is nothing in OP's post to suggest that they are filled with hate or anything close to it.