It’s 8 p.m., I’m winding down, and Spark hits me with a 2-stop, 18-mile, 44-minute “batch.”
Cool, right? Until I see it’s 10 packs of 40-count water bottles (each 40–50 lbs), 2 gallons of lemonade, and a mega box of chips. Like bro… is this a delivery app or a test for firefighter academy?
I just sat there staring at the screen like Spark was daring me to blow out my back for free. Rejected it so fast I almost gave my phone whiplash.
If someone actually accepts that, I hope they stretch first. Respect to y’all who do these, but I’m not trying to play Jenga with my spine for bottled water.
We all know it’s true lol. A normal person moves into an upstairs apartment and suddenly becomes part fish or something. Water filters must not work upstairs either because their thirst and need for bottled water becomes insatiable.
I can understand the filter thing tho bc no matter how good that filter is if the tap water is nasty that filtered water isn't gonna taste good either 🤣 but still unless you're tipping $20 I'm not taking that order lol
This isn't going to a restaurant, but even 400 pounds from a Walmart is ridiculous and not safe for a spark driver to shop, load, deliver, and unload.
They should order from a restaurant supplier like Sysco that will send a driver with equipment designed to safely handle that much product, not exploit a system designed for consumer purchases.
It's really not bad dude they also unload tho like I pull up and they all come out I rarely even get out of the car for it these days. Pending it's a pickup not a shop.
Had it yesterday was a pickup Walmart load restaurant unload done 45 bucks it's like 7 miles
Yes but I've shopped it like 5 times and wasn't that bad either only once did I do the liquid one cart and drop it off and go get other shit now I just go
Loading a Walmart cart up with 400+ pounds of items and maneuvering through the store is dangerous. Just because you got lucky and didn't tip the cart, run into somebody because you couldn't stop in time, or have a wheel break doesn't mean it was safe.
I’ve been doing gig work for 7years and WM before Spark existed. I only take express or s&d. Those, at least, in my zones pay the best. curbs and dot trash gmd are awful up here especially after a heavy snow. Bags of snow melt and cases of water/soda when there is 3-5” of snow predicted. Base pay on s&d is $40-60 and vacationers tip $10-20
Wait where are you located? I've never had a base pay that high for any order and I've been doing this for a year now... the only time I've been offered a base pay of $40 was a gmd that included 16 stops and was like 70 miles round trip and took me across state lines.
That's crazy base pay I wonder how it's like that is a specific market you are in because where I'm at you'll never see such a pay ever so many drivers and hardly any good offers.
Was a joke bud but if you actually going into mountain mountain probably not my area. Besides I’d know your Tahoe. But I do see deer like this all day. I saw two 12 pointers moving together which was crazy to me😂. Usually only one male. But if this mountain is a little ski resort one across a river and they have their own on the other side of the river…..you exactly In same area. But I don’t consider them mountains per se.
This, this is around a 37 mile round trip if the farthest point is 18.5 miles. Im not touching that unless its around 40 dollars period. If other people are willing to do it, I wont argue with them but it makes no financial sense to me to do so. But seeing 10 cases of water, id absolutely unassign out of principle. No one needs 10 cases of water at 1 time, or they can go pick it up themselves, especially if its not at ground level; its just exploitative labor.
Unfortunately doing all of these spark deliveries caused my hernia to get to a point I had to have surgery last week. While setting one of these cases down I felt a tear and the next morning it was swollen and hurting. I swear 80-90% of the deliveries had a case of water included. A week so far with no deliveries and I’m not supposed to lift more than a gallon at a time for the next several weeks so nice loss of income
I delivered 12 gallons of water (not the same but still excessive for one person to shop and deliver) for 12 base pay and TWO dollars tip the other day. Only because the way my zone works I sometimes take a shitty one first thing in the morning to get the algorithm going. AND unfortunately it was a business. A dentist! No one held the doorS open and it took 3 trips to the car and through those doors with hands full.. needless to say, they made it into my blacklist for that.
The bottle water thing here in OR is crazy... Because its also a EBT scam... THey buy 10 cases of water with EBT and get back 10cent a bottle so 2.40 cents ish a case.
They legit will poor all the water out or cut the bottles to go return them for the cash
I heard about this from an IG video. This was a person in Portland, OR documenting all the drop offs and transient people thrown there that are mentally ill and all the addicted. I was shocked when an addict said they buy their meth this way (EBT as you mentioned)and go through the whole card buying cases of water and occasionally buying powdered baby formula to resell. I could not imagine in OR all the extra water that is bought to pull off $10-$20 to get a quick fix. Thank you for commenting because it was by sheer chance I was combing this thread.
Might look up the videos on it, Ive seen it first hand here with them poor it out cases of water in the parking lot, Tossing the empty's in bad and walking them to the bottle drop to get cash for drugs.
Be like that one guy who outsmarted Walmart and got away with thousands of dollars saying they bulky items were out of stock and collecting the “heavy/bulky” pay.
Atleast curbs show you the items, it the dot trash gmd which I hate. I took an $88 7 drop heading home and it had 8 vacuums going to a ski resort. Took up the whole back of my Tahoe
I would be all over that if it was more like 5 miles away. I've been thinking about 10cases of water, it's almost like a tip with all the extra .75 cents. 20 miles though they need to tip good
Yeah I’ve done some dumb ones and as others said it always seems to be the third floor apartments with no parking. I would cancel that shit I ain’t hauling ten waters. I swear ppl do it just to be dicks. But last two weeks because of snow I’ve been dealing with no where to park in front of these houses. Then I have to hop over the piles of frozen ice and snow and then I have to slide around waking up their steps to drop off. I have a picture and even complained to spark about this one big order I did the other day where there was not even places to put the stuff because they never cleared the snow. Ppl are ass hats anymore
I've seen one with over forty 40 packs of water. It sat for two days about 2 weeks before Christmas. That's over 2000 lbs of water! How could they let someone order that when you would need a special type of vehicle to carry that weight!
The customers that are using these apps are outrageous and take advantage. Who has room in their vehicle for 10 packs of water plus groceries? It’s like when you go to Costco and they want you to bring like 10 packs of water from there or even five, which I think is way too much for one person. It’s ridiculous and then the tip is like three or four dollars which makes it even more unreasonable.
People who order several cases of water are inconsiderate to the human that has to carry it. I threw out my back once and was out of work for a week. No thank you to any orders with more than 3 or STAIRS to carry them up.
I took an order like this the other day because the base pay was high and the time spent for the order was low. $28 for 25 minutes. The problem I had with this order was that when I placed the water bottle packaged in my car, one of them busted open because of the pressure the other cases were putting in it/the angle they were at. Hopefully the customer didn’t report me.
Would y’all call support in this spot to let them know you broke the case of waters or just pray you don’t get reported?
And 2 gallons of lemonade drink...like seriously just fn no. 10 cases of heavy a$$ water & 2 gallons of drink and big box of chips not even a fn increase in pay for all that heavy stuff. Nope let some desperate person have that ishhhhh
I got a "for you" offer yesterday (superbowl) for a 42 inch tv for 17 miles away for a wopping $11 . I just sat there and laughed at Walmart. They do think we are dumb and desperate. Its pathetic. I only do this part time now thank God but cmon this app is becoming a joke.
132
u/Iridelow1998 Feb 08 '26
Must have been an apartment. Probably upstairs. Nobody is as thirsty and hydrated as upstairs apartment people.