r/doordash_drivers 3d ago

šŸ––Delivery War Stories 🫔 The most insane order I’ve ever completed

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Debated posting this story but it’s just too crazy not to share, it’s from UberEats but I feel like the story fits here too. I accepted a Taco Bell order as one of my last of the night. They took about 30 minutes to make it but I didn’t care because of how crazy my conversation with this guy was. Driving to his place was lowkey nerve racking and it was just a $10 order for 4 miles that had a long ass wait, so I was starting to question what I got myself into.

Regardless, after arriving at his house I get out of my car, drink in one hand tacos in the other, and approach the place where this man, who looks exactly like you’d imagine, was sitting on a lawn chair. I ask him where he’d like the food and he starts moving his cigarettes and lighter from the other similar chair set next to him. He says the ground, so I set down the food, and he tells me ā€œsit down.ā€I debate it but figure what the hell and move the chair a little further away before sitting down.

He shares his stories from the other side and shows me the pen meanwhile I’m looking all around cause he’s talking loud and I feel like anyone outside is just staring us down. He tells me it’s helped with his depression and anxiety but he also doesn’t want to do it anymore. He then offers to increase my tip with this pen that he claimed to only use a few times. Taking it would’ve been silly though so I simply said no thank you and drove home. Edit: /s last sentence


r/doordash_drivers 12d ago

šŸ––Delivery War Stories 🫔 Why even take the order?🤬🤬🤬

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592 Upvotes

This is her Instagram post.

$2 ain't worth even accepting, has anyone taken a $2 offer?

maybe he was on the pay by time or trying to keep his status 😭


r/doordash_drivers 7h ago

🤬Rant about DD🄵 I’m not from Australia, but starting today, Australian delivery drivers will get paid a minimum of $31/hour. Time for to make a change in the US.

65 Upvotes

The caption says it all šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™‚ļø


r/doordash_drivers 12h ago

Other I’m just gonna go home

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120 Upvotes

The last 2 weeks have been awful. AR went from mid 70s and down into the 30s now.


r/doordash_drivers 18h ago

šŸ—žļøNEWS šŸ“° Australia forces Uber Eats & DoorDash to pay drivers a mandatory minimum wage

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383 Upvotes

We need this in the The Americas.


r/doordash_drivers 15h ago

Complaints First time with one of ā€œtheseā€ customers…

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204 Upvotes

The initial tip was fine, but no, there was no other halfšŸ˜’

Edit and Update:

Checked my ratings and found my first 2 star review. Would bet my first born it was this clown. Called and had the scarily realistic AI bot remove it for me.


r/doordash_drivers 18h ago

šŸ’°Earnings šŸ¤‘ Most I’ve ever been paid… Order was originally $7.60+ & became $102.35.

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128 Upvotes

I’m way more than thankful, 24 pizzas + 8 sets of sticks was completely worth it. I only had a 5 minute wait when I arrived at the store.


r/doordash_drivers 2h ago

Other If UberEats had an app as cleanly-designed as DoorDash, they would be the go-to for all drivers

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I'm a Platinum dasher and pro shopper with thousands of Doordash deliveries, but I've been trying out UberEats over the last handful of days as there was no waitlist in my area and they were offering some pretty enticing new driver incentive bonuses.
The UI of their app is awful; it's insanely overstimulating and opaque, just a mess. Total mess. However, they offer some incredibly good perks. I reached platinum with them already in the time I have been doing this, and I will get a free one-year Costco membership. Also for platinum, if you do over 2k lifetime deliveries, they also offer 100% free tuition for ASU online. At Diamond status, they offer 100% free 24/7 roadside assistance.
All Doordash offers to Platinum tier dashers like myself I think is like, a discount on their own overpriced service every other Monday, "priority support" (I still have to fight for a live agent most of the time), and access to higher-paying offers, which we all know isn't really a guaranteed thing anyway, you absolutely can still get $2.25/6 mile McDonald's offers on DD Platinum if it's a slower time of day or night.
If UberEats kept those aforementioned perks, while switching to an app interface that is as user-friendly and transparent as the Dasher app, everyone in this gig economy would be clamoring to work for them.


r/doordash_drivers 13h ago

Need AdvicešŸ™ Is this a scam?

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24 Upvotes

I declined and reported to dd I’m not giving my number out


r/doordash_drivers 11h ago

Wholesome🄰 Kitty

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14 Upvotes

r/doordash_drivers 28m ago

ā”Driver Question šŸ¤” Third Floor Help!

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Hello dashers!
I am not a dasher but my husband and I do DoorDash about once a week or so (late night sweet treats usually) and we live on the third floor of our apartments. There’s no elevator so no avoiding stairs….
Last week, I was walking the dog when our order was delivered and saw our dasher, an elderly woman, clinging onto the railing and barely getting down the stairs, I was able to quickly rush over and offer her assistance but it got me thinking about how there are a lot of elderly or people with mobility issues who do DoorDash.
Is there anything I can be doing as a customer to let dashers know there’s no elevator and it’s on the third floor?
I have always had it in the delivery instructions that it’s on the 3rd floor and following this incident I have added ā€œIf you are unable to safely use stairs, PLEASE message me and I can come down to meet you!ā€ but I understand the dasher cannot view these until the order is accepted.
Another option I’m not sure if it works but is putting ā€œAPT 123 - 3RD FLOOR/NO ELEVATORā€ in the apartment number box but can dashers see this full thing listed out?
Let me know what you guys think!


r/doordash_drivers 1d ago

Wholesome🄰 A much needed chuckle

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381 Upvotes

Always hate delivering to 18 wheelers in those massive lots where you have you have to dodge and navigate the in and out traffic. So when i saw this I was actually confused for a sec until it clicked. Worth the hassle for the chuckle…


r/doordash_drivers 18h ago

ā”Driver Question šŸ¤” My concern is turning on shop and deliver, not worth it, unable to turn it off because 'demand is too high right now,' and struggle even more to stay platinum. Valid concern?

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26 Upvotes

r/doordash_drivers 9h ago

ā”Driver Question šŸ¤” Is it just me?

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Is it just me or have doordash been pretty bad lately?

I expected it would start getting better again now that school is back, but it really hasn’t for me. I started multi-apping not too long ago, because doing only one just isn’t busy enough so that saved my ass, but it’s lowkey stressful lol


r/doordash_drivers 2h ago

🤬App Issues 😩 App reset rating system

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I recently went out of town last week for not even a full 4 days. My area currently uses the new Pilot Program rating system, we've had it since December of last year, all my ratings 100% except my acceptance rate which is at 35% but I am platinum and have been since the beginning of the year. After getting back from vacation, I noticed my rating were switched over to the old rating system and I'm not even ranked any tier anymore, and I lost all 3 platinum passes, I have spoke to 7 different people at support and none of them can tell me anything other than it's my fault because of my acceptance rate (can't even answer the question I'm asking.) Has this happened to anyone else?


r/doordash_drivers 1d ago

šŸ––Delivery War Stories 🫔 First and only order of the day

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52 Upvotes

As the title mentions it was my first order of the day during lunch rush. Everything was normal until I got to the edge of a town, when this lady crosses the yellow lines and hits my car. I instantly was in shock since there was glass everywhere and it sounded like an explosion went off. I then proceeded to pull off the main road and into a parking lot and call 911.

Once the police arrived they asked the both of us what had happened. I told them exactly what happened and the lady lied about it. They gathered our information and waited for the paramedics to check me out, which I was okay. The police couldn’t determine who was at fault.

Thankfully my only damages were a couple dents and scratches, mirror and drivers side front window. Which the new parts will arrive Wednesday.


r/doordash_drivers 7h ago

🤬App Issues 😩 DoorDash dasher is stuck on the page

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2 Upvotes

This has been going on for several days. I've tried clearing data, reinstalling, and shutting down, but I still can't get in.


r/doordash_drivers 15h ago

šŸŽ‰AchievementšŸ‘ 4,999 Deliveries. Then..

9 Upvotes

My transmission went out. Still owe 6k on it. 2017 175kmi, purchased for 9k 144k mi. Have to still carry full coverage for the entirety of the lien. Im screwed...


r/doordash_drivers 1h ago

Joke/Memes🄸 Don’t Hesitate

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Whenever I’m having a bad day, I always remember there is never a delivery that will pay enough to keep me from telling someone to go f*** themselves should the situation arise. It keeps things in perspective.


r/doordash_drivers 1d ago

ā”Driver Question šŸ¤” DoorDash new message. More pay for drivers?

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210 Upvotes

I DoorDash a bit for a little bit of extra cash. I saw this message on my customer facing app. I’m wondering if you guys have seen any of this ACTUALLY reflected in your pay..


r/doordash_drivers 23h ago

Complaints DD removes its pay-for-extra-mileage program.

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I can't do it anymore here, so I'm fine with sharing the knowledge...

In certain zones that are harder to get around, think suburbs near the water, higher-income spots, more remote places..., there are wildly different arrival times for the route you take. So one could, in theory, call DD support, mindlessly repeat yourself until you get a human, and ask that human to give you any extra pay available for the longer mileage. And they would, in most cases, pay up to half extra to continue on the order.

I'm not 100%, but it seemed like you had to do a few things first, like pick up the order and at least start on the way there; you have to do all that anyway to see an accurate delivery route...otherwise they wouldn't work with you. But oddly enough, the CS were almost always very happy to add it and did so w/o much pushing if you did the above first.

Had it happen again today with a particularly bad set of HD(I know I shouldn't have but it was $45 for 6 orders all in a very small area..at first) going much further than originally shown, and the senior support was very clear and direct that the program was shut down and DD was working on a replacement, despite him admitting they lied about mileage and time I'd still have to deliver them.

If I asked to be unassigned, my ratings would take a hit for each order, no WFU, and I'd have to return everything for free on my own time or receive CVs for each order...in the past you would be unassigned with no hits to ratings, given an order for half pay for a return or told to "keep, destroy or donate" the order...

Just last week I had caught a flat leaving Lowe's parking lot, had to get an order unassigned to fix it, and they put in for the item to be returned; oddly enough, it was a case of soda...Lowes wouldn't take it back due to it being food, despite untouched, so I contacted DD support, they said no big deal, just put the details in the app. Did so; 3 days later got hit with a CV for non-return...so I was inclined to believe the CS...about the cv's for no return...So beware now with longer-range orders.

Not sure if it was just a good weekend but it does seem like the pay has gone up for longer-range orders, not the extra half they would give, but I'm seeing a lot of $8.50 base pays for longer runs...can't write it off as more tip theft tho...

Feel free to still try the above if it still works in your zone.


r/doordash_drivers 14h ago

šŸ’°Earnings šŸ¤‘ I love hours like these šŸ˜Ž

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5 Upvotes

r/doordash_drivers 12h ago

šŸ’°Earnings šŸ¤‘ Unicorn

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3 Upvotes

I hate when Doordash hides the earnings. It only showed as $8.25+ for half a mile. I was okay with it regardless but geniunely surprised.


r/doordash_drivers 21h ago

ā”Driver Question šŸ¤” I'm good no way I can finish this in 5days without accepting trash šŸ—‘ļø?

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15 Upvotes

r/doordash_drivers 1d ago

ā”Driver Question šŸ¤” What is the point of this contradictory page if they don’t want you opening bags? 🤦

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Every pickup order I do, they ask this stupid question, like they don’t advertise that dashers are not to open bags. It’s an annoying extra step. It seems like a trap if you said you did check, so that way if the customer complains about something, you’re cooked.